Washington Post Live

Experts from the Advanced Biofuels Association, GE Aviation and Honeywell Aerospace explore the rising cost of jet fuel and the potential for new technologies and alternative fuels to improve efficiency and reduce costs.

Industry leaders from Lockheed Martin Aeronautics, Aerospace Industries Association and Inflight Internet Company Gogo, explore how advances in technology, engineering and other innovative tools are poised to change the aviation industry.

On Wednesday, July 25, Air Force Secretary Heather Wilson sat down for an in-depth interview with Washington Post columnist and associate editor David Ignatius.

The Washington Post’s Derek Hawkins sits down with the undersecretary of National Protection and Programs Directorate at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Christopher C. Krebs, to analyze the government’s cybersecurity priorities.

The Washington Post’s Carol Leonnig talks with former House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Rogers and former State Department Coordinator for Cyber Issues Christopher Painter to assess the cybersecurity agenda of the Trump administration.

The Washington Post’s Ellen Nakashima interviews leaders from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence to discuss the most significant cyber threats facing the U.S.

House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Rep. Kevin Brady (R-Tex.) assesses the political and policy outlook for phase two of tax reform.

Senior leaders from the business and labor communities evaluate tax reform’s effect on the corporate and manufacturing sectors as well as on American workers.

Kevin Hassett, the head of President Trump’s Council of Economic Advisers discusses whether tax reform is delivering on its promises and where tax reform goes from here.

The Washington Post’s Paige Winfield Cunningham speaks one-on-one with Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar about reducing health-care costs, Medicare payment reform, lowering prescription drug prices and expanding access to lower-cost insurance.

Former U.S. Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Dr. David A. Kessler and former New York University Professor of Nutrition, Food Studies and Public Health Dr. Marion Nestle look at the role chronic disease plays in driving up health-care spending.

Sen. Michael Bennet (D-Colo.) and Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) examine the latest proposals to reduce the cost of health care for Americans.

Emmy and Grammy Award-winning comedian Patton Oswalt discusses the evolution of comedy as a form of free speech.

The co-founder of Black Lives Matter Los Angeles Melina Abdullah, comedian and documentarian Hari Kondabolu and podcast host Dylan Marron, discuss whether promoting equality and inclusion is at loggerheads with free speech.

Federal Communications Commission Commissioner Michael O’Rielly, Sen. Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), President and CEO of USTelecom Jonathan Spalter and Information Technology and Innovation Foundation President Robert Atkinson debate net neutrality rules.

Christopher Wylie, the former Cambridge Analytica research director turned whistleblower, discusses the potential uses of big data to influence behavior and assesses how online communities are facilitating free expression and thought in the digital age.

Acting Associate U.S. Attorney General Jesse Panuccio, American Civil Liberties Union President Susan N. Herman and PEN America CEO Suzanne Nossel look at how key players in the free speech debate are shaping First Amendment law across the country.

On Thursday, June 14, President Trump’s former National Economic Council Director Gary Cohn sat down for a wide-ranging interview with Washington Post White House economic policy reporter Damian Paletta.

First Lady of New York City Chirlane McCray, discusses ThriveNYC, her initiative to create a model behavioral health system in America’s most populous city with a focus on serving at-risk populations.

Child psychologists and experts shine a spotlight on how media, technology and other social factors are affecting the mental health of children, teens and college-age students.

Mary Giliberti, CEO of National Alliance on Mental Illness, and Dr. Joshua A. Gordon, director of the National Institute of Mental Health, discuss some of the country’s most urgent mental health problems.

Sen. Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii) and Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) discuss the Congressional role in funding mental health initiatives.

On Tuesday, June 12, The Washington Post hosted a discussion about the movie, “Blindspotting,” with stars of the film, Daveed Diggs and Rafael Casal. “Blindspotting” opened the 2018 Sundance Film Festival.

The Washington Post’s Robert Costa sits down with U.S. Secretary of Transportation Elaine Chao.

Sen. Roy Blunt (R-Mo.) and Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.) discuss the latest proposals from Capitol Hill that could affect the airline industry.