Sen. Amy Klobuchar on saving live music venues
Live music venues were among the first businesses to close during the pandemic and will be among the last to reopen. In the meantime, many are facing financial ruin. Dan is joined by Sen. Amy Klobucha...
28 Jul 202012min
The future of COVID unemployment benefits
The White House and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell this afternoon rolled out their proposal for the next federal stimulus. They have major disagreements with the Democrats who they'll need to ...
27 Jul 202013min
Vaccine reality check from Obama's CDC director
Americans seem resigned to the idea that life won't return to normal until we have an approved and widely-distributed vaccine for COVID-19, but vaccine optimism could be undermining other efforts to c...
24 Jul 202012min
Sen. Hawley on removing forced labor from U.S. supply chains
This week, Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) introduced legislation aimed at stemming the use of forced labor by American corporations — particularly those that run much of their supply chain through China. Ha...
23 Jul 202011min
Bill Ackman on Wall Street's hottest trend
Hedge fund titan Bill Ackman today raised $4 billion in an IPO on the New York Stock Exchange — but it wasn’t for a company, or even for the firm that controls his hedge funds. It was for something ca...
22 Jul 202010min
LA School Superintendent on reopening remotely
Unlike in many other parts of America, Los Angeles isn’t debating whether or not to send students back into physical classrooms. In the time since it was announced that the L.A. Unified School Distric...
21 Jul 202012min
Saving America's restaurants
There are around half a million independent restaurants in America, and a recent report found that upwards of 85% of them could go out of business without some sort of direct aid from Congress. Dan di...
20 Jul 202013min
A conversation with Tom Houck, a close friend of Rep. John Lewis
Tom Houck counted the late Congressman John Lewis among his closest friends, speaking to him almost daily for the past 45 years. Dan spoke with Tom Houck, who once was Martin Luther King Jr.'s driver,...
20 Jul 20208min
