Anna Wintour on the Kamala Harris Vogue Cover
The February cover of Vogue featuring Vice President-elect Kamala Harris kicked off a controversy involving the most powerful woman in fashion and the soon-to-be most powerful woman in the White House...
12 Jan 202132min
Inside the Billion-Dollar War Against Right-Wing Conspiracists
Dominion Voting Systems has filed a $1.3 Billion defamation suit against former Trump lawyer Sidney Powell. Chief Executive John Poulos says it’s the “first step” in the voting machine company’s effor...
11 Jan 202127min
If You Were on Parler, You Saw the Mob Coming
Update: Jan. 11, 2020Parler went offline Monday after Amazon stopped providing it with web-hosting services. This followed Apple and Google’s removal of Parler’s app from their app stores. In notices ...
7 Jan 202133min
What’s Next in Your Netflix Queue?
Bela Bajaria has an unprecedented job at Netflix. In an executive shake-up this year, she was elevated from head of “local language” (read: non-English) productions to a newly created role, head of gl...
4 Jan 202137min
This Astrologer Has Some Things to Tell Kara Swisher
Astrology has been around for thousands of years, so why are “Mercury in retrograde” memes and horoscopes still so popular in 2020? “We all need, at some point or another, to have someone say: ‘Yeah, ...
28 Dec 202033min
Bonus: Kara and Nick Kristof Debrief on Ajay Banga
On yesterday’s episode of Sway, the chief executive of Mastercard spoke about why the company blocked subscription payments on Pornhub. Was it too little too late? Kara asks Nicholas Kristof, the jour...
22 Dec 202024min
Your Card Payment Has Been Declined
Ajay Banga has spent a decade as chief executive of Mastercard. Last year, he oversaw $6.5 trillion in transactions. That means he knows what we’re spending right now (aggregated and anonymized, of co...
21 Dec 202040min
Can Kara be Vulnerable?
Brené Brown’s best-selling books and TED talks about embracing vulnerability and shame have made her a cultural phenomenon. Silicon Valley executives often invite her to speak to their companies, thou...
17 Dec 202037min
