
Washington Post Live
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.
Latest episodes

Jul 25, 2024 • 1h 18min
The looming public health challenge of long covid
Ziyad Al-Aly, chief of research for the VA St. Louis Health Care System and Jaime Seltzer, scientific director of #MEAction and Stanford University research scientist, discuss the ranging impacts of long covid and how health care institutions can improve in educating the public on the diagnosis. Then, Chimére L. Sweeney, founder and director of The Black Long Covid Experience and Linda Sprague Martinez, director of the Health Disparities Institute at UConn Health discuss the challenges people of color and marginalized communities face in the health care system. Finally, Ashwin Vasan, commissioner of the New York City Department of Health & Mental Hygiene discusses how the city is implementing new strategies to aid long covid patients.
Conversation recorded on Thursday, July 25, 2024.

Jul 23, 2024 • 28min
Rep. Adam Smith on Kamala Harris path to 2024 nomination and Democratic Party’s message
Rep Adam Smith (D-Wash.) joins Washington Post Live to weigh in on Vice President Kamala Harris’ bid for the White House, the Democratic Party’s message and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s visit to Washington.
Conversation recorded on Tuesday, July 23, 2024.

Jul 23, 2024 • 29min
David Axelrod on what’s next in 2024 presidential contest with Biden dropping out
Democratic political strategist David Axelrod joins Washington Post Live to discuss President Biden’s decision to end his campaign, hat could happen next, the best path forward for Democrats and his long-standing reservations about Biden’s electoral path to victory.
Conversation recorded on Monday, July 22, 2024.

Jul 23, 2024 • 30min
Jason Rezaian on his freedom 10 years since imprisonment and global press freedom
Jason Rezaian, the former Tehran bureau chief for The Washington Post, who was unjustly imprisoned in 2014 in Iran on charges of espionage for 544 days joins The Post’s Frances Stead Sellers to reflect on his freedom 10 years since his imprisonment, his work to raise awareness about journalists being held captive and the state of global press freedom.
Conversation recorded on Monday, July 22, 2024.

Jul 19, 2024 • 34min
First Look with The Post’s Leigh Ann Caldwell, Marianna Sotomayor, E.J. Dionne and Megan McArdle
On Washington Post Live’s “First Look,” Washington Post Live anchor Leigh Ann Caldwell speaks with The Post’s Marianna Sotomayor, E.J. Dionne and Megan McArdle about Donald Trump’s speech at the RNC and calls for President Biden to step out of the election.
Conversation recorded on Friday, July 19, 2024.

Jul 18, 2024 • 20min
Republican National Convention: Gov. Chris Sununu on 2024 election and the future of the GOP
New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu joins Washington Post Live to discuss why he now favors Trump’s candidacy despite his past criticisms, the future of the Republican Party and the renewed calls to lower the temperature on the national political discourse.
Conversation recorded on Thursday, July 18, 2024.

Jul 18, 2024 • 14min
Republican National Convention: Corey Lewandowski on Republican unity and the 'civil war' among Dems
Corey Lewandowski joins Washington Post Live to discuss how Donald Trump's attempted assassination has changed the former president, how the Republican Party has unified during the RNC and why he believes "the next two weeks will be critical for the Democratic Party."
Conversation recorded on Thursday, July 18, 2024.

Jul 17, 2024 • 20min
Republican National Convention: Sen. Ron Johnson on 'unity' within the Republican Party
Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) joins Washington Post Live from the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee to discuss the Secret Service's "massive security failure" following the attempted assassination of Donald Trump, bias within the mainstream media and how Republicans are unifying ahead of the 2024 election.
Conversation recorded on Wednesday, July 17, 2024.

Jul 12, 2024 • 29min
Sen. John Fetterman on what Democrats can learn from Republicans and the dangers of Project 2025
Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) joins Washington Post senior congressional correspondent and columnist Paul Kane to discuss why he is standing by Biden’s candidacy, the divisions in the Democratic Party and how he sees the stakes for the presidential contest.
Conversation recorded on Friday, July 12, 2024.

Jul 11, 2024 • 25min
John Bolton on NATO, Trump and the latest in Ukraine
Trump’s former national security advisor John Bolton joins Washington Post Live to discuss the state of NATO, what a second Trump administration’s foreign policy might look like and the latest on the war in Ukraine.
Conversation recorded on Thursday, July 11, 2024.