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Nov 23, 2020 • 54min
The Economist's World in 2021
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.

Nov 13, 2020 • 50min
Sara Just, for the Record
PBS NewsHour executive producer Sara Just on the never-ending 2020 election, the pandemic, Washington's awkward transition ... and reinventing the nightly news into a well-oiled, remote-work machine.

Oct 28, 2020 • 53min
Israel and the New Mideast
Michael Oren, Israel's former ambassador to the U.S., on the nation's central role in Mideast's shifting balance of power -- from peace accords with small Arab nations to Iran's isolation to the long-stalled Palestinian peace process. And how will Jewish-American voters respond to PM Netanyahu's especially tight relationship with President Trump?

Oct 16, 2020 • 54min
The Beautiful Scars of Brad Meltzer
Multiple NYT bestselling author (and lapsed attorney) Brad Meltzer on the struggles, setbacks and grit that put him on the course to multimedia stardom. He says his latest book, I Am Anne Frank, might be the most important of his career.

Oct 8, 2020 • 53min
The Ghosts of 1980 Miami
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.

Oct 1, 2020 • 51min
When Purell Met COVID-19
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.

Sep 24, 2020 • 46min
Disaffection 2020
NBC News White House correspondent Geoff Bennett on the scene six weeks before Election 2020, from the battle to fill the Supreme Court's vacancy to President Trump tripling down on his base to what the parties will look like coming out of the election -- whenever it's decided.

Sep 15, 2020 • 54min
Energy's New Map
Pulitzer Prize-winning geostrategist Daniel Yergin on his latest book, The New Map: Energy, Climate and the Clash of Nations. We discussed Tesla, China, Saudi Arabia vs Iran, renewables, fracking, global C02 intensity...and much more.

Sep 3, 2020 • 53min
2020 vs Investing 101
Caleb Silver, editor in chief of Investopedia, on why everything you learned about investing makes no sense in 2020. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

May 22, 2020 • 53min
The Long Con of Whitey Bulger
Bestselling author and investigative journalist Casey Sherman on his new book with Dave Wedge -- Hunting Whitey: The Inside Story of the Capture and Killing of America's Most Wanted Crime Boss. Gangster James "Whitey" Bulger's criminal career spanned much of the 20th century, culminating in his 2011 capture and prison assassination in 2018 at the age of 89.