The pandemic’s mental health toll
The COVID-19 pandemic shed light on and exacerbated the structural problems in the U.S. mental health care system — which often requires patients to seek out care and pay out of pocket for it. Demand ...
15 Jun 202116min
Selling the first-ever NFT
Sotheby’s last week auctioned off the first fine art NFT ever created, a landmark moment in the transformation of art from the physical to the digital. The winning bid was nearly $1.5 million. Axios R...
14 Jun 202115min
WH official Juan Gonzalez on Kamala Harris' trip to address mass migration
Vice President Kamala Harris this week went on her first foreign trip since taking office, visiting Guatemala and Mexico to address what she refers to as the root causes of mass migration, after the U...
11 Jun 202116min
Ransomware becomes an industry
Federal authorities this week announced that they successfully traced and recovered most of the Bitcoin that had been paid by Colonial Pipeline to a ransomware gang called DarkSide, following last mon...
10 Jun 202115min
New York City prepares to pick its next mayor
This Saturday, Democrats in America’s largest city will be asked to begin picking their nominee for mayor, a person whose influence is certain to extend beyond the five boroughs. But the voting system...
9 Jun 202115min
Rep. Ro Khanna on the massive bill to compete with China
Senate Democrats and Republicans today are expected to overwhelmingly pass a $247 billion spending package focused on competing with China on technology. Dan is joined by California Democrat Rep. Ro ...
8 Jun 202113min
America’s future in the hands of West Virginia’s senators
West Virginia’s two Senators, Democrat Joe Manchin and Republican Shelley Moore Capito, each have disproportionate power to determine America's legislative future, including on voting rights and infra...
7 Jun 202114min
Jobs, jobs and (not enough?) jobs
Today’s jobs report showed that the U.S. economy added 577,000 jobs in May, which was a very strong number but below what many had been expecting. Dan unpacks the report with Axios business reporters ...
4 Jun 202113min
