Geraldine Brooks On the Art of Grieving and Spanning the Political Divide
On May 27, 2019, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, best-selling author (and Kara’s friend) Tony Horwitz was on book tour for his latest work, Spying on the South: An Odyssey Across the American Divid...
6 Mar 202558min
Can Kara Save The Washington Post From Jeff Bezos?
For months, Kara has been assembling a group of investors to buy The Washington Post. Although it's not actually for sale, an ongoing exodus of journalistic talent, combined with Bezos's decision to k...
3 Mar 20251h 25min
How Trump's Policies Will Shape the Stock Market with Aswath Damodaran
For years, Wall Street veterans have been saying that a market correction is around the corner, and last week's jitters have only intensified concerns. To find out if the party is ending sooner rather...
27 Feb 202556min
Comedian Ronny Chieng on Political Satire, Trolling Algorithms and Cerebral Dick Jokes
Emmy Award-winning comedian and actor Ronny Chieng is a self-described grumpy Malaysian who get to tell it like it is to Americans as aco-host and correspondent on Comedy Central’s The Daily Show. K...
24 Feb 202552min
Rahm Emanuel’s Tough Love Intervention for the Democratic Party
After a three-year stint in Japan, Ambassador Rahm Emanuel is back in the States. And now that he's freed from diplomatic constraints, Rahm is bluntly telling fellow Democrats where they went wrong in...
20 Feb 20251h 5min
Oren Cass, Paul Krugman & Mariana Mazzucato on Trumponomics
Last week, President Trump signed a memorandum calling for reciprocal tariffs on countries that charge fees on US exports and called his 25% tariff order on all steel and aluminum imports “the beginni...
17 Feb 20251h
Unchecked and Unbalanced: Trump’s Executive Power Moves and the Rule of Law
In just a few weeks, President Trump has flooded the zone with executive orders, which have been met with dozens of lawsuits by state attorneys general, unions and non-profits and complaints by Democr...
13 Feb 20251h 2min
Wicked’s Cynthia Erivo on Defying Gravity, the Attack on Diversity and (Maybe) Getting an EGOT
Is it strange that Wicked, a film about a marginalized person discovering her magic and rising up to fight against government oppression, has been a box office success under Trump 2.0 – or does the mo...
10 Feb 202548min
