Washington Post Live
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A podcast from Washington Post Live, the newsroom’s live journalism platform, where top-level government officials, business leaders, cultural influencers and emerging voices discuss the most pressing issues driving the news cycle nationally and across the globe.
From one-on-one newsmaker interviews to in-depth multi-segment programs, Washington Post Live brings The Post’s newsroom to life.
From one-on-one newsmaker interviews to in-depth multi-segment programs, Washington Post Live brings The Post’s newsroom to life.
Episodes
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Aug 9, 2023 • 43min
Former federal judge J. Michael Luttig on Jan. 6 indictment and American democracy
Washington Post editorial page editor David Shipley speaks with one of the country’s best known conservative jurists who advised former vice president Mike Pence against overturning the electoral college vote after the 2020 election, J. Michael Luttig, about the Jan. 6 indictment against former president Donald Trump and how he sees the future of American democracy.
Aug 9, 2023 • 28min
Exiled Russian journalist Mikhail Zygar on Putin and the war in Ukraine
Washington Post intelligence and national security reporter Shane Harris speaks with Mikhail Zygar, founding editor of TV Rain, Russia’s only independent news station, about his new book, Russia’s historical attitudes to Ukraine, Putin’s grip on power and the fallout from Yevgeniy Prigozhin’s failed rebellion.
Conversation recorded on Wednesday, August 9, 2023.
Aug 8, 2023 • 26min
Acclaimed author Cristina García on new novel ‘Vanishing Maps’
Washington Post national correspondent Arelis Hernández speaks with Cristina García, the award-winning author of the acclaimed novel “Dreaming in Cuban,” about her latest work bringing attention to the Cuban diaspora and her mark on Latino literature.
Aug 8, 2023 • 30min
Former Michigan congressman Fred Upton on the future of the Republican party
Former congressman Fred Upton (R-Mich.) joins Washington Post Live to discuss the Jan. 6 indictment against Trump, the future of the Republican party and his support for a third-party candidate in the 2024 presidential election.
Conversation recorded on Tuesday, August 8, 2023.
Aug 7, 2023 • 31min
Constellation CEO on the challenges of carbon-free energy
Washington Post global economics correspondent David J. Lynch speaks with Constellation Energy Corporation CEO Joe Dominguez about the developing sources of clean energy and the latest advances in technology.
Conversation recorded on Monday, August 7, 2023.
Aug 7, 2023 • 28min
Cecilia Rouse on paid parental leave
Senior writer Frances Stead Sellers speaks with Cecilia Rouse, former chair of President Biden’s White House Council of Economic Advisers, about the lack of guaranteed paid parental leave in the United States and the issue’s increased momentum at the state and national level.
Conversation recorded on Monday, Aug. 7, 2023.
Aug 4, 2023 • 27min
First Look with The Post’s Jacqueline Alemany, Megan McArdle and Eugene Robinson
On Washington Post Live’s “First Look,” associate editor Jonathan Capehart speaks with The Post’s Jacqueline Alemany, Megan McArdle and Eugene Robinson about Trump’s third indictment and how the GOP presidential field is trying to gain ground on the former president.
Conversation recorded on Friday, August 4, 2023.
Aug 3, 2023 • 30min
Hollywood in the age of streaming
Washington Post chief film critic Ann Hornaday speaks with award-winning producer, Bruna Papandrea, about her new series, “The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart,” the ongoing actors and writers strike and Hollywood’s future in the age of streaming.
Aug 2, 2023 • 30min
Marissa Mayer on generative AI and the future of technology
Washington Post business editor Lori Montgomery speaks with former Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer about her new artificial intelligence venture Sunshine, the recent breakthroughs in AI and why she sees the tech industry at an inflection point.
Conversation recorded on Wednesday, August 2, 2023.
Aug 2, 2023 • 30min
Elizabeth Acevedo on exploring family, belonging and her Afro-Latino identity
Washington Post national correspondent Arelis Hernández speaks with Elizabeth Acevedo, champion slam poet and National Book Award winner, whose work often explores family, belonging and her Afro-Latino heritage, about her new novel, “Family Lore,” which chronicles a Dominican American family attending a still living matriarch’s wake.
