13th & Park

Send us Fan Mail Larry Sabato, founder of UVA's Center for Politics and the mind behind the legendary Sabato's Crystal Ball, joins Adam Goodman for his third appearance on 13th and Park. With Election Day closing in, Sabato delivers his final midterm assessment: Democrats are poised to gain significant ground in the House, and the Senate, which he says he never would have imagined compet...

Send us Fan Mail John Zecca, NASDAQ's Executive Vice President and Global Legal Chief, joins Adam Goodman on 13th and Park for a wide-ranging conversation on what makes American capital markets the envy of the world, and what is quietly threatening their future. A former counsel to an SEC commissioner who has spent 25 years at NASDAQ, Zecca offers a rare dual perspective: the regulator's...

Send us Fan Mail Matt Seaholm, President and CEO of the Plastics Industry Association, joins Adam Goodman on 13th and Park for a wide-ranging conversation on what the plastics industry actually makes, how it powers American manufacturing, and what the future of recycling looks like in the United States. Seaholm explains why plastics are far more than bags and bottles, touching everything from auto...

Send us Fan Mail Bryan Gray, CEO and co-founder of HereNOW Health, joins Adam Goodman on 13th and Park to discuss one of the most urgent and underreported crises in America: veteran mental health. With an average of 17 veterans dying by suicide every single day, and 61 percent of those who died by suicide in 2023 having had no VA healthcare contact in their final years, Gray explains why the tradi...

Send us Fan Mail World Bank Group President and former Mastercard CEO Ajay Banga joins Adam Goodman on a special edition of 13th and Park to confront one of the defining challenges of our time: over the next 10 to 15 years, 1.2 billion young people in emerging economies will reach working age, but only about 420 million new jobs are projected to exist for them. Banga lays out what that gap means f...

Send us Fan Mail Dave Limp, CEO of Blue Origin, joins Adam Goodman on 13th and Park for a wide-ranging conversation about the mission to make humanity a multi-planetary species and what it actually takes to build the infrastructure for that future. Limp traces the arc from his childhood fascination with the Apollo program and backyard model rockets to leading one of the most ambitious aerospace co...

Send us Fan Mail Tampa Bay Rays CEO Ken Babby joins Adam Goodman on 13th and Park for a wide-ranging conversation on what it takes to build a winning organization on a limited budget, why culture and chemistry are the Rays' real secret sauce, and what it felt like to celebrate a postseason series win over the New York Yankees in a champagne-soaked clubhouse just one year after acquiring the t...

Send us Fan Mail Gladden Pappin, co-founder of American Affairs and newly joined Ballard Partners, sits down with Adam Goodman on 13th and Park to trace the intellectual and personal journey that brought him from Little Rock, Arkansas, to the center of Washington's policy debates. A sixth-generation descendant of the Osage Nation and Harvard graduate, Pappin draws a straight line from his gra...

Send us Fan Mail Mykhailo Bno-Airian, Vice President of Global Affairs at MHP, joins Adam Goodman at Ballard Studios in Washington DC for a conversation about one of the most overlooked dimensions of the war in Ukraine: its economy. A former diplomat, energy executive, and governor of the Kyiv region, Bno-Airian brings a uniquely layered perspective to the question of how a country keeps itself wo...

Send us Fan Mail Craig Wagoner, President and CEO of Community Health System, joins Adam Goodman on 13th and Park for an in-depth conversation about one of California's most consequential but least-known health systems. Serving more than 4 million residents across 15,000 square miles of the Central Valley, Community Health System operates five hospitals, nearly 12,000 employees, and the only...

Send us Fan Mail Leslie Norwalk, former Acting Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services under President George W. Bush, joins Adam Goodman on 13th and Park for a candid inside look at how American healthcare is actually governed, regulated, and paid for. Drawing on her legal background, six years at CMS, and four years in the White House, Norwalk explains why the interplay b...

Send us Fan Mail Yvette Kapinga Ngandu, the Democratic Republic of the Congo's Ambassador to the United States, joins Adam Goodman on 13th and Park for a sweeping conversation about one of the most strategically consequential relationships in American foreign policy. Ambassador Ngandu opens with context most Americans do not have: the DRC is roughly a quarter the size of the United States, ho...

Send us Fan Mail Amaryllis Fox Kennedy joins Adam Goodman on 13th and Park for a rare and wide-ranging conversation that moves from the trauma of losing a childhood friend on Pan Am 103 over Lockerbie, to recruiting algorithms at Georgetown, to running covert operations for the CIA in her early twenties. Her journey from a nomadic childhood, shaped by her father Hodson's work as a world econo...

Send us Fan Mail Tom Greenwood, CEO of Helios Towers, joins Adam Goodman on 13th and Park for a wide-ranging conversation on Africa's digital transformation and the critical role cell tower infrastructure plays in connecting hundreds of millions of people to the global economy. Greenwood, the fourth employee of a company that now operates more than 15,000 towers across eight African countries...

Send us Fan Mail Former Illinois Governor Rob Blagojevich joins Adam Goodman on 13th and Park for a raw and wide-ranging conversation tied to his forthcoming memoir, Framed, F*cked, and Freed. Blagojevich walks through the early morning of December 9, 2008, when a 24-member FBI SWAT team and a hostage negotiator arrived at his Chicago home to arrest a sitting governor, and he makes the case that w...

Send us Fan Mail Dr. Tal Becker, Senior Fellow at the Hartman Institute and Counsel to Honigman LLP, joins Adam Goodman on 13th and Park for a wide-ranging conversation on Israel's security, its global image, and the profound philosophical questions underneath the headlines. One of the key architects of the Abraham Accords and Israel's representative before the International Court of Jus...

Send us Fan Mail Pavan Agarwal, CEO of Celligence and a pioneer in AI-powered mortgage technology, joins Adam Goodman on 13th and Park for a conversation about one of the most consequential barriers to the American dream: a mortgage system that has remained largely unchanged for four decades. Drawing on more than two decades as a loan officer in South Central Los Angeles and later as a fintech bui...

Send us Fan Mail Jay Feely spent 14 seasons in the NFL as a place kicker, but his resume extends well beyond the field. After football, he built a career as an NFL broadcaster, served on the NFLPA Executive Committee negotiating billion-dollar collective bargaining agreements, and devoted years to community work in Arizona and abroad. Now he is running for Congress in Arizona's 1st Congressio...

Send us Fan Mail Oklahoma Senator Alan Armstrong joins Adam Goodman on 13th and Park for a candid conversation about what happens when a career energy executive trades the boardroom for the Senate floor with a singular mission and a nine-month clock. Armstrong spent nearly four decades at the Williams Companies, rising to CEO of the Tulsa-based firm that handles roughly one-third of America's...

Send us Fan Mail Missouri Senator Eric Schmitt joins Adam Goodman on 13th and Park for a conversation that moves from a viral SportsCenter moment to one of the most personal stories in the United States Senate. Schmitt, a former two-sport college athlete, made a full-extension diving catch at this year's Congressional Baseball Game at Nats Park, bloodied his nose on the warning track, won MVP...

Send us Fan Mail Audrey Tang, Taiwan's former digital minister and one of the world's most recognized civic technologists, joins Adam Goodman and Amy Tong on 13th and Park for a conversation about artificial intelligence, democratic renewal, and how to move a deeply polarized society toward uncommon ground. Tang, now academically based at Oxford, challenges the dominant framing of AI as...

Send us Fan Mail Amy Tong, former California Chief Information Officer and Secretary of Government Operations, and now a Partner with Ballard Partners and Chair of the Emerging Tech and AI Policy Group, joins Adam Goodman and co-host Anthony Williams at Ballard Studios in Washington, DC for a wide-ranging conversation on what it actually takes to modernize government from the inside. Tong arrived...

Send us Fan Mail Ambassador Mike Waltz, the 32nd U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations and former Green Beret, joins Adam Goodman on 13th and Park for a wide-ranging conversation on American diplomacy, the reform of the United Nations, and the foreign policy vision driving the Trump administration. A decorated combat veteran with four Bronze Stars, including two for valor, Waltz brings a soldier&a...

Send us Fan Mail Senator Roger Marshall of Kansas joins 13th and Park for a wide-ranging conversation rooted in service, values, and the practical demands of governing. A fifth-generation farm kid and first-generation college student, Marshall spent 25 years as the only OB-GYN serving roughly 60,000 people in Great Bend, Kansas, delivering more than 5,000 babies before bringing that same instinct...

Send us Fan Mail Jim Allen, CEO of Seminole Gaming and Hard Rock International Chairman, joins Adam Goodman on 13th and Park for a wide-ranging conversation on the global expansion of Hard Rock, the rapidly shifting gaming landscape, and a life journey that began in the kitchens of Atlantic City and led to one of the most consequential careers in the history of the industry. Allen walks through th...