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The Sunday Edition visits the Republican National Convention

The coronation of Donald Trump: Michael reflects on the convention, during which political-neophyte-billionaire-reality-TV-host Donald Trump was officially nominated as the Republican Party's candidate for President of the United States - the most powerful job in the world. Who are the Trumpsters? From the convention floor and the streets of Cleveland, a snap-shot of the Americans who are passionate about casting their vote for Donald Trump. Only his hairdresser knows for sure -- the peculiar miracle of Donald Trump's poofy do: Michael visits the Urban Kutz Barbershop in Cleveland, where barber Kew Williams offers informed opinion on the architecture and underpinnings of Trump's hair. Black and White in Cleveland: Delegates to the RNC in Cleveland are overwhelmingly white; but the city of Cleveland has more black residents than white. To learn more about the city's racial divide, Michael attends Sunday morning service at Olivet Institutional Baptist Church, and talks to Pastor Jawanza Colvin, a rising star in the African-American religious community. Michael also tours Cleveland's neighbourhoods with Dr. Rhonda Williams, professor of history at Case Western Reserve, and founder and director of the Social Justice Institute. You can't always get what you want - music and politics: The British rock band Queen is just the latest musical group to tell the RNC to stop playing their music at political events. Michael looks at the intertwined history of politics and rock music on location at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, which is hosting an exhibit called "Rock, Power and Politics". Michael's guide, is curator Karen Herman. David Frum's Republican soul is having a very dark night: The Canadian conservative, former speechwriter for George W. Bush, and senior editor of The Atlantic magazine, says Donald Trump's nomination represents an institutional failure inside the Republican Party. It is ill, he says, and has been for a long time. But unlike his colleague, Conservative thinker George Will, Frum says he will work to reform the party from within. He looks back on the events of a very Trumpian week, with Michael.
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Sunday Edition1:42:28The Sunday Edition - Republican National Convention

The coronation of Donald Trump: Michael reflects on the convention, during which political-neophyte-billionaire-reality-TV-host Donald Trump was officially nominated as the Republican Party's candidate for President of the United States - the most powerful job in the world.

Who are the Trumpsters? From the convention floor and the streets of Cleveland, a snap-shot of the Americans who are passionate about casting their vote for Donald Trump.

Only his hairdresser knows for sure — the peculiar miracle of Donald Trump's poofy do: Michael visits the Urban Kutz Barbershop in Cleveland, where barber Kew Williams offers informed opinion on the architecture and underpinnings of Trump's hair.

Black and White in Cleveland: Delegates to the RNC in Cleveland are overwhelmingly white; but the city of Cleveland has more black residents than white. To learn more about the city's racial divide, Michael attends Sunday morning service at Olivet Institutional Baptist Church, and talks to Pastor Jawanza Colvin, a rising star in the African-American religious community. Michael also tours Cleveland's neighbourhoods with Dr. Rhonda Williams, professor of history at Case Western Reserve, and founder and director of the Social Justice Institute.

You can't always get what you want - music and politics: The British rock band Queen is just the latest musical group to tell the RNC to stop playing their music at political events. Michael looks at the intertwined history of politics and rock music on location at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, which is hosting an exhibit called "Rock, Power and Politics". Michael's guide, is curator Karen Herman.

David Frum's Republican soul is having a very dark night: The Canadian conservative, former speechwriter for George W. Bush, and senior editor of The Atlantic magazine, says Donald Trump's nomination represents an institutional failure inside the Republican Party. It is ill, he says, and has been for a long time. But unlike his colleague, Conservative thinker George Will, Frum says he will work to reform the party from within. He looks back on the events of a very Trumpian week, with Michael.

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