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Roben Farzad
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Aug 10, 2018 • 48min
The VA Mercury and America's Local News Crisis
Berkshire Hathaway, the company run by one of the planet's richest men, ultimately didn't rescue the Richmond Times-Dispatch -- one of Berkshire's many newspaper acquisitions. Two veteran journalists recently left that daily for the Virginia Mercury, a philanthropically backed not-for-profit publication taking a crack at the age-old riddle: How do you sustainably invest in quality local journalism?

Aug 2, 2018 • 33min
Saddam Hussein: My Role In His Downfall
Adnan Sarwar, a former British Muslim soldier, reflects on enlisting in the army and fighting in Iraq. "I realized," he wrote, "I felt freer in the army than I ever would in my parents'..house with an Asian cash-and-carry at one end and a mosque at the other. My comrades didn't judge me. They just wanted me to live my life."

Jul 24, 2018 • 40min
B(u)y the Book
Amazon, founded as a puny online bookseller, is now eyeing a $1 trillion market valuation. Border's is gone. Barnes & Noble is teetering. But independent bookstores are having a renaissance. We talk to Fountain Bookstore owner Kelly Justice and David Shuman, who crowdfunded a rescue of the decidedly analog indie Book People.

Jul 15, 2018 • 45min
Rethinking the Democrats
John Prideaux, U.S. editor of The Economist, on the many doubts and hard questions the Democrats face in the era of Pres. Trump and GOP domination of Capitol Hill. During Barack Obama's two terms in the White House, his party gave up more than 1,000 seats across Congress, state legislatures and governors' mansions. Where to now?

Jul 10, 2018 • 44min
RBG Goes to Hollywood
How filmmaker Julie Cohen brought octogenarian Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg to the big screen in "RBG," one of this year's hit documentaries.

Jul 3, 2018 • 44min
The Resilience of Adele McClure
How a girl who grew up hungry, frequently homeless and generally deprived of a normal childhood became student body president of her college of 32,000 -- and then a top policy adviser to Virginia's lieutenant governor. The story of Adele McClure.

Jun 24, 2018 • 43min
John Avlon Goes to CNN
The ex-speechwriter for Mayor Rudy Giuliani and former editor-in-chief at the Daily Beast on discourse and journalism in the age of Trump -- on the very week he joins CNN ... and CNN joins AT&T.
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Jun 17, 2018 • 33min
"Kim Jong Won"
The Economist's David Rennie on the magazine's cover on Trump's unprecedented summit with the ruler of North Korea. The U.S. made huge concessions and alienated allies. Will the Hermit Kingdom really change?

Jun 7, 2018 • 43min
Alpha Charlie Gasparino
Fox Business Network's Charlie Gasparino on his decades of covering fellow New Yorker Donald Trump -- and how he went from being Manhattan's Self-Promoter-in-Chief to U.S. Commander-in-Chief. Charlie talks about Trump's takeover of the GOP, a tense encounter with small hands and Republicans' chances in November and beyond.

May 26, 2018 • 36min
The Financial Misadventures of Mark Twain
Mark Twain, the legendary author, could have been America's first cocaine kingpin; he was an inept land speculator and precious-metals prospector; he lost money on dumb contraptions and a protein supplement derived from pig feed. All great fodder for my guest, Alan Pell Crawford, author of How Not to Get Rich: The Financial Misadventures of Mark Twain.