COVID Lessons Learned with Donald G McNeil Jr.
Four years after the start of the global pandemic, COVID-19 is no longer a global health emergency, but in the U.S., every week, the virus is still hospitalizing 15,000 people and killing a thousand. ...
8 Jan 202454min
OpenAI Drama to Trump to Elon Musk: What It Means for 2024
Kara and Nayeema look forward to the characters and moments that may define 2024 by looking back at the coverage of the last year. We unpack the drama at OpenAI, to the contrast between Biden and Trum...
4 Jan 202447min
Stay Tuned with Preet: The Many Lies of George Santos
On is off for the holidays, so today we have an episode of friend-of-the-pod Preet Bharara's podcast Stay Tuned with Preet. In this episode, Preet is joined by author Mark Chiusano for a deep dive on ...
28 Des 202321min
The Man Taunting Mike Johnson, Ron DeSantis and George Santos
Randy Rainbow is a four-time Emmy and Grammy-nominated musical comedy sensation famous for his viral taunts of anti-LGBTQ+ politicians, hateful celebrities and, of course, George Santos. Rainbow (and,...
21 Des 202346min
Will Big Bets to Solve Climate Change Pay Off? With Rajiv Shah
Are world hunger, pandemics and climate change “fixable” – or is mitigating their impacts the best we can hope for? Is there any point in making them moonshots? In his new book, Big Bets: How Large-Sc...
18 Des 202353min
God, Money and Trump with Tim Alberta
Tim Alberta is a fantastic reporter whose profiles of 2024 hopeful Nikki Haley and former CNN boss Chris Licht proved illuminating and impactful (Licht lost his job days after). In his latest book, Al...
14 Des 20231h
Mark Esper on Gaza, Iran, China and (of course) Trump
Former Secretary of Defense Mark Esper details the threats and dangers we face. On the agenda: hot wars in the Middle East and Ukraine, a cold war with China, the threat posed by Iran, and the dangers...
11 Des 202356min
Is Liz Cheney the GOP Cassandra?
Former Wyoming Congresswoman Liz Cheney is on a mission to defeat Donald Trump - and says she’ll do “whatever it takes” to prevent him and his “enablers” from a second term in the White House, includi...
7 Des 202357min
