Full Disclosure with Roben Farzad

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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?

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.