Full Disclosure with Roben Farzad

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.

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.

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.

Caleb Silver, editor in chief of Investopedia, on why everything you learned about investing makes no sense in 2020. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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.

Kara Swisher, veteran Silicon Valley correspondent, on Big Tech's unprecedented hegemony; her BoomTown journey from the Wall Street Journal to multi-platform entrepreneurship; the reinvention of the NY Times and Bill Gates; the minds of Bezos and Musk. We discussed it all.

Caleb Silver, editor-in-chief of Investopedia and CNN's former head of U.S. business news, on markets in the time of Covid-19. We discussed investor anxiety, oil's collapse, Jeff Bezos's swagger, the Fed's crisis toolkit and much more.

The award-winning TV journalist on finding -- and asserting -- her true voice. So much for pre-med at Harvard...

Back by popular demand: Prof. Sree Sreenivasan, the globally connected digital mentor, on what you can be doing right now -- in the teeth of the jobs crisis -- to reinforce and expand your professional network and profile. He joined from his apartment in Manhattan.

Morgan Till, PBS NewsHour's senior foreign affairs producer, on the many international crises emanating from the pandemic. We discussed crude oil's collapse and OPEC; China, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Italy, Venezuela; refugees at high risk in sub-Saharan Africa; creeping authoritarianism.