• Host Piya Chattopadhyay speaks with Canada's former NATO ambassador Kerry Buck and international politics professor Mark Webber about the future of NATO

• Reporter Jacob Soboroff explores what last year's L.A. fires reveal about the politics of disaster

• Canadian Nobel Prize laureate Peter Howitt unpacks the economic theory of "creative destruction"

• Our monthly challenge That’s Puzzling! returns with special guest Andi Petrillo

To kick off a new year of Word Processing, our ongoing look at language, Piya Chattopadhyay speaks with lexicographer Susie Dent about the old words you didn't know you needed to sum up our modern times, and her pitch to get "recombobulation" – the opposite of discombobulation – properly in the dictionary.

So, nevermind the "snollygosters," just gather round your "copemates" and head on a "coddiwomple" with us as we ring in 2026.

• Host Piya Chattopadhyay speaks with reporter Ana Vanessa Herrero, Lulu Garcia-Navarro from The New York Times, and University of Ottawa's Roland Paris about the bigger implications of U.S. strikes on Venezuela and the capture of President Nicolás Maduro

• Lexicographer Susie Dent resurfaces old words you didn't know you needed to sum up our modern times

• Actor, author and director Stephen Fry reimagines ancient Greek myths

• Psychology professor Dacher Keltner and workplace culture strategist Jennifer Moss discuss the benefits of cultivating awe