PBS NewsHour foreign editor Morgan Till on the Middle East, China, Myanmar, vaccine diplomacy and other geopolitical hard choices confronting the Biden White House.

Till the Ends of the Earth

Poets & Quants founder and editor-in-chief John Byrne on the costs and rewards of the MBA degree; remote learning; the search for meaning in business careers -- and much more. Recorded live with the University of Richmond's Robins School.

Live: Poets & Quants

Cold Warrior; informant; demolition expert; spy; mercenary; cocaine provocateur; Nazi hunter; quoter of military histories. Four decades after notorious Cuban exile Ricardo "Monkey" Morales was killed in Miami, his son, Rick Jr. is piecing together Dad's tormented story.

The Legends of Ricardo "Monkey" Morales

The story of software engineer and entrepreneur Michael Sayman, a child of immigrants who as a teenager taught himself how to build apps. After supporting his parents during the Great Recession, he joined Facebook at age 17 -- becoming a reluctant Silicon Valley celebrity. His book is App Kid: How a Child of Immigrants Grabbed a Piece of the American Dream.

On Sayman's Terms

Brittanny Anderson, who is competing on this season of Top Chef, on her journey from wings and flair at Hooters to national culinary stardom. In 2019, we interviewed her in front of a live, hungry audience.

Top Chef's Brittanny Anderson

A seemingly relentless bull market in all sorts of assets -- from stocks to crypto to real estate to newfangled NFTs -- has traffic booming at Investopedia, where veteran business journalist Caleb Silver is editor-in-chief. He rejoins us to discuss ... just about everything.

Risk-Onward

The U.S. spends $4 trillion a year on healthcare. COVID has accelerated the adoption of telemedicine and spawned major investments in testing, machine learning and artificial intelligence -- rapidly moving hundreds of billions of dollars to new frontiers. There's still plenty of waste. But also a feeling that new opportunities abound. We talk to a physician-investor and a healthcare banker about the landscape.

Healthcare's Major IT Factor

In 2019, a near-fatal seizure and emergency brain-tumor surgery walloped comedian Kyle Grooms (Chappelle's Show, Comedy Central, Def Comedy Jam, BET, HBO); he woke up telling the doctor it was 1969. Then, Covid and nationwide racial unrest upended all of comedy. He delves into this -- and his standup special “Kyle Grooms: Brain Humor.”

The Brain Trust of Kyle Grooms

CNBC executive editor Jay Yarow on markets, the roaring comeback of the individual investor, speculation, digital media consumption and much more.

Jaytalking

Alice Fulwood, The Economist's Wall Street correspondent, on her feature package on the future of banking. We discussed mobile payments; "govcoins," paper money and the unbanked; central banks' hegemony; and the struggle to untether from both dominant banks and the U.S. dollar.

The Economist on the Future of Banking

So much for AT&T's content + distribution empire. The telco is retreating from Hollywood -- unwinding its costly, debt-laden acquisition of HBO parent WarnerMedia. What does this mean for a media landscape increasingly dominated by streaming heavyweights Netflix and Disney? What about 5G, Amazon and Comcast? Edmund Lee of the New York Times and Michael Morris of Guggenheim Partners weigh in.

Ma Bell's Hell (and Back?)

Brad Stone, author of the bestseller Amazon Unbound: Jeff Bezos and the Invention of a Global Empire. Amazon is an e-commerce behemoth; a Hollywood studio; an essential cloud services provider to multinationals; the savior of Whole Foods. Founder Jeff Bezos owns The Washington Post and plows his unprecedented wealth into rockets. So then what the heck is Amazon?

Amazon Unbound

Veteran baseball executive Todd "Parney" Parnell, CEO of the minor-league Richmond Flying Squirrels, on community, coping and cash flow during Covid. Relatedly, what can you do with an empty ballpark? Plus, tough questions from a fifth-grade super-fan.

Parney, the Diamond-Hearted

What is Virginia telling us on this trademark off-year election? 
Guests:
•Jeff Schapiro of the Richmond Times-Dispatch and Michael Pope of Virginia Public Radio
•GOP strategist Taylor Keeney
•Ghazala Hashmi (D), who was elected Virginia's first Muslim state senator

Virginia: Battleground 2021

The Economist's deputy editor Tom Standage discusses the world in 2019  -- from wobbly markets to China to Moscow to Facebook fatigue, rogue princes, spy craft, negative interest rates, the western hemisphere's populism and second and third thoughts on Brexit. Also: plastic straws, Joe Biden and cleaner, greener "meat."

The Economist on 2019

Imagine starting as CEO of the maker of Purell (synonymous with hand-sanitizer) just as the pandemic broke. Carey Jaros discusses the perils of seemingly infinite demand -- and ramping up capacity from a few hundred million doses a week to a billion a week...to a billion A DAY.

When Purell Met COVID-19

Nicholas Griffin on his book, The Year of Dangerous Days: Riots, Refugees and Cocaine in Miami 1980. Much has changed over 40 years in South Florida and across the nation. And yet -- Arthur McDuffie then; George Floyd now; Miami's yawning racial inequality -- little has changed.

The Ghosts of 1980 Miami

The Economist's deputy editor Tom Standage on the magazine's "World in 2021" issue. We discussed COVID, international relations, Biden's many challenges, Brexit, tech, risk, the Mideast and various new (and not-so-new) normals.

The Economist's World in 2021

Financial Times contributing editor Brendan Greeley on economic policy's year-2020 crash course.

ECON 2020

What is "public radio" in 2020? NPR chief marketing officer Michael Smith on disruption and opportunity in the New Golden Age of Audio.

National Public Reinvention

Documentary makers Billy Corben and Alfred Spellman (Cocaine Cowboys; ESPN's The U; 537 Votes) on Hollywood's most disruptive year in memory.

Fear and Loathing in Hollywood

In this special double episode, Full Disclosure meets the book Hotel Scarface: Who was Bernardo De Torres, the Cuban exile linked to the JFK assassination who in 2018 died homeless and alone in Miami? Fernand Amandi, Joan Mellen and Jefferson Morley on the dark legend.

Who Was Bernie?

WSJ tech guru Joanna Stern on how gadgets, subscriptions and social media have taken over our lives -- for better and worse. We discussed working from home, the consumption of news and becoming a digital pioneer at a 132-year old newspaper.

Stern Disciplines

Dr. Eric Feigl-Ding is an epidemiologist, health economist and senior fellow at the American Federation of Scientists. In January 2020, he was one of the first U.S. doctors to sound five alarms on COVID-19. What he's learned in the catastrophic year since ... and what he wishes the world would learn.

COVID-19 ... '20  '21

Serial entrepreneur and venture capitalist Josh Felser on the surging excitement for sustainable investing. We discuss gut-friendly cattle feed, regenerative farming, battery storage and the power grid, timber credits, solar, Tesla...and lots more.

The Low-Carbon Investor

Veteran journalist, speaker and author Celeste Headlee on the open letter, "An Anti-Racist Future: A Vision and Plan for the Transformation of Public Media" -- her collaboration with more than 200 people in the industry.

Public Mediator

Can we leverage the network effects and audience "hive mind" of a live show to help a guest with a life problem? With the University of Richmond's Robins School of Business, I interview a young father whose family and work lives were devastated by COVID. Professional mentors and community members hear his story, interview him and help him figure out the best paths ahead.

Live Mind: Rebuilding The Franklins

Amy Walter, national editor of The Cook Political Report and host of Politics on The Takeaway, on the battle for the soul of the GOP in the wake of the Trump presidency. We discussed the Capitol riot; Elections 2022 and 2024; Mitch McConnell; the Electoral College; demographics; swing voters; Georgia; North Carolina; much more.

The Brawling Twenties

Iran-born, Canada-raised actor, playwright and all-around funnywoman Tara Grammy on the hustle, big breaks and side-gigging that got her to where she is today. Plus, Iran's former queen came to her show ... What the heck is SNL waiting for?

Grammy Hopeful

Apple vs Facebook. Google vs Apple (only when Google isn't paying Apple). Microsoft vs Amazon. Facebook vs Google (when they aren't busy tag-teaming). Amazon vs everything. The Economist's tech and business editor Tamzin Booth on Big Tech's multi-trillion-dollar battles, collusions and consolidations.

World War Tech

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