Full Disclosure with Roben Farzad

The U.S. spends $4 trillion a year on healthcare. COVID has accelerated the adoption of telemedicine and spawned major investments in testing, machine learning and artificial intelligence -- rapidly moving hundreds of billions of dollars to new frontiers. There's still plenty of waste. But also a feeling that new opportunities abound. We talk to a physician-investor and a healthcare banker about t...

A seemingly relentless bull market in all sorts of assets -- from stocks to crypto to real estate to newfangled NFTs -- has traffic booming at Investopedia, where veteran business journalist Caleb Silver is editor-in-chief. He rejoins us to discuss ... just about everything.

Brittanny Anderson, who is competing on this season of Top Chef, on her journey from wings and flair at Hooters to national culinary stardom. In 2019, we interviewed her in front of a live, hungry audience.

The story of software engineer and entrepreneur Michael Sayman, a child of immigrants who as a teenager taught himself how to build apps. After supporting his parents during the Great Recession, he joined Facebook at age 17 -- becoming a reluctant Silicon Valley celebrity. His book is App Kid: How a Child of Immigrants Grabbed a Piece of the American Dream.

Cold Warrior; informant; demolition expert; spy; mercenary; cocaine provocateur; Nazi hunter; quoter of military histories. Four decades after notorious Cuban exile Ricardo "Monkey" Morales was killed in Miami, his son, Rick Jr. is piecing together Dad's tormented story.

Poets & Quants founder and editor-in-chief John Byrne on the costs and rewards of the MBA degree; remote learning; the search for meaning in business careers -- and much more. Recorded live with the University of Richmond's Robins School.

PBS NewsHour foreign editor Morgan Till on the Middle East, China, Myanmar, vaccine diplomacy and other geopolitical hard choices confronting the Biden White House.

Apple vs Facebook. Google vs Apple (only when Google isn't paying Apple). Microsoft vs Amazon. Facebook vs Google (when they aren't busy tag-teaming). Amazon vs everything. The Economist's tech and business editor Tamzin Booth on Big Tech's multi-trillion-dollar battles, collusions and consolidations.

Iran-born, Canada-raised actor, playwright and all-around funnywoman Tara Grammy on the hustle, big breaks and side-gigging that got her to where she is today. Plus, Iran's former queen came to her show ... What the heck is SNL waiting for?

Amy Walter, national editor of The Cook Political Report and host of Politics on The Takeaway, on the battle for the soul of the GOP in the wake of the Trump presidency. We discussed the Capitol riot; Elections 2022 and 2024; Mitch McConnell; the Electoral College; demographics; swing voters; Georgia; North Carolina; much more.

Can we leverage the network effects and audience "hive mind" of a live show to help a guest with a life problem? With the University of Richmond's Robins School of Business, I interview a young father whose family and work lives were devastated by COVID. Professional mentors and community members hear his story, interview him and help him figure out the best paths ahead.

Veteran journalist, speaker and author Celeste Headlee on the open letter, "An Anti-Racist Future: A Vision and Plan for the Transformation of Public Media" -- her collaboration with more than 200 people in the industry.

Serial entrepreneur and venture capitalist Josh Felser on the surging excitement for sustainable investing. We discuss gut-friendly cattle feed, regenerative farming, battery storage and the power grid, timber credits, solar, Tesla...and lots more.

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.

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.

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.