Adela Raz was only in her role as Ambassador to the U.S. for one month before the U.S. withdrew from Afghanistan. And now she grapples with her role as an Ambassador essentially without a state and no real relationship with the Biden administration.Axios Re:Cap digs into Axios’ Jonathan Swan’s exclusive interview with Ambassador Raz.
On our latest installment of our Hard Truths series, we look at how the process to get tenure at many universities in the U.S. is shutting out academics of color. Guests: Paul Harris, associate professor of education at Pennsylvania State University, and Patricia Matthew, associate professor of English at Montclair State University and editor of Written/Unwritten: Diversity and the Hidden Truths of Tenure Credits: “Axios Today” is brought to you by Axios and Pushkin Industries. This episode was ...
With the pandemic, the way we think about work has changed. There is a newfound power of the employee, and with that has come more union organizing. Axios Re:Cap digs into what Bessemer means for unions, the history of unions in the U.S., and the dignity of a worker with author and historian Ibram X. Kendi.
Spotify is one of the biggest players in podcasts, and has been spending big on shows like The Joe Rogan Experience and Call Her Daddy. But the industry still very small compared to music and other types of media content. Axios Re:Cap digs into the past, present and future of the podcasting business with Spotify founder and CEO Daniel Ek, who also shares what he's been listening to revently.
From the military coup in Myanmar, to U.S. sanctions on Belarus, to violence in Venezuela. Axios Re:Cap talks with Axios' World Editor, Dave Lawler, and catches us up quick with what's going on around the globe.
The way we make and maintain friendships has changed during the pandemic, and post-pandemic is a great time to let some go. Axios Re:Cap talks with author of Friends Forever, Suzanne Degges White, about why our friendships are changing and how to move forward.
The world is suffering from a shortage of silicon chips, making it harder to make and buy everything from cars to home appliances. Axios Re:Cap talks with U.S. Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo about U.S. efforts to improve domestic manufacturing, why it’s taking so long to pass the CHIPS Act and what can be done to help in the short-term. Plus, an important message from Dan.
Space travel once unified Americans with the excitement of scientific discovery and wonderment. But the recent suborbital trips headlined by Richard Branson and Jeff Bezos have been much more divisive, with critics accusing the billionaires of taking pricey joyrides while the Earth below them literally burns. Dan goes deeper with engineer and Virgin Galactic executive Sirisha Bandla, who flew alongside Branson, to better understand what space tourism could also mean for the future of science.
Tom Barrack, the billionaire real estate investor and close friend to former President Trump, was arrested yesterday on federal charges of acting as an unregistered foreign agent for the United Arab Emirates. It's a case that touches the highest levels of American finance and power.Dan goes deeper with Vicky Ward, an investigative journalist who's reported Tom Barrack through her books on New York real estate, the Kushner family and her new podcast series on Jeffrey Epstein.
Bitcoin is not environmentally friendly. It takes enormous amounts of electricity to mine and exchange cryptocurrencies..Dan digs into this conflict between climate and cryptocurrencies with Axios energy reporter Ben Geman and crypto investor Anthony Pompliano, to better understand the problem and what might be done to resolve it
A federal judge in Texas last week blocked DACA, the Obama-era program that provides legal protections to undocumented immigrants who arrived in the U.S. as children. The ruling puts more than 600,000 Dreamers in a new state of legal limbo, and stops new applicants from being approved. Dan talks with Axios politics reporter Stef Kight about what comes next, both in the courts and in Congress.
On our latest installment of our Hard Truths series, we go inside the fight to build a $2.4 billion telescope on the highest mountaintop in Hawai'i. For astronomers it would mean the chance to answer deep questions about the universe. But for indigenous Hawai'ians, it would mean the desecration of sacred land. Guests: Aurora Kagawa-Viviani, post-doctoral researcher and scientist at UH-Hilo Hawaii Cooperative studies unit at the University of Hawai'i Hilo and Axios' Miriam Kramer. Credits: "Axios...
Two weeks ago today, the Champlain Towers South condo building in Surfside, Florida collapsed. 54 people are confirmed to have died, while 86 remain missing. The collapse has begun to spark a broader conversation about aging condo buildings, which house around one out of every five Americans. Dan talks to Peter Coy of Bloomberg Businessweek about the fundamental flaws of condo management and the conflict surrounding owners and maintenance.
The Chinese government is going after its own Big Tech companies, with new rules around cybersecurity and listing shares on foreign exchanges. It’s also banned many of them from app stores, including ride-hail giant DiDi, which last week went public in New York. Dan talks with Rui Ma of China Tech Buzz about what’s changed in just the past few days, what it means for companies like DiDi and parallels to last year's fight between Trump and TikTok.
Richard Branson is scheduled to blast off this Sunday on a suborbital space flight with his company Virgin Galactic, just days before Jeff Bezos plans to ride aboard a Blue Origin spaceship. But a lot more is riding on these rockets than ambitious billionaires. Axios Re:Cap speaks with Axios Space editor Miriam Kramer about what Branson and Bezos are actually doing, how it’s different from what SpaceX is doing, and the risks these missions could pose for the future of space travel.
Americans spend billions of dollars on July 4th food, but what we eat is changing as health and sustainability become bigger factors in our diet decisions. Axios Re:Cap goes deeper with Ethan Brown, founder and CEO of Beyond Meat, to learn more about changing consumer tastes and what it means for the future of meat.
It’s almost certain that America won’t meet President Biden’s goal of having 70% of all American adults at least partially vaccinated by the Fourth of July. To understand why, it’s crucial to understand who hasn’t gotten vaccinated, where they are, and why. Dan digs into these questions with Otis Rolley III of the Rockefeller Foundation, which recently released research with Dalberg that breaks down which groups and places in the U.S. have fallen furthest behind on vaccinations.
Most small business stories from the pandemic are about about pivoting or perishing, but there's also been an unexpected surge in new small business creation. One example is Agua Bonita, a canned beverage company that launched last year after both of its co-founders were laid off. Dan talks with Agua Bonita co-founder Kayla Castañeda and Techstars founder David Cohen about what it was like for startups over the past 14 months and what recovery means for businesses that didn't even exist before C...
The Pacific Northwest is experiencing record-high temperatures due to a “heat dome” that should be a once every-few-thousand-year event — but which could occur more often and with more severity due to climate change. Dan digs in with Axios climate reporter Andrew Freedman, to better understand this weather event's science, the dangers posed to human health and infrastructure, and how the definition of a "normal climate" is changing.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that there were 4% fewer U.S. births in 2020 than in 2019, an acceleration of a long, slow decline. The report keeps getting picked up in the news, in part because conventional wisdom has generally been that it’s important for generations to replenish themselves. Dan discusses this report, how we think about birth rates and the economy, and whether a country can sustain its economy without sustaining its birth rate with Axios business repor...
This week was the first time Britney Spears ever personally addressed the court — and in doing so, the public — about wanting to terminate the conservatorship, controlled by her father, that she has been under since 2008. But the New York Times recently reported that her lawyer first told a court seven years ago that Britney wanted to explore having her father removed. Dan is joined by Vox.com’s Constance Grady to discuss how public concern about her conservatorship went mainstream, what we know...
Editorial staff of Washingtonian magazine chose to unionize today, the latest in a spate of media unionizations that is just part of a broader trend of post-pandemic tensions between employers and employees. Dan goes deeper with Jessica Sidman, a food editor at Washingtonian, about the situation at her workplace, at the restaurants she covers and if work will ever be the same.
The White House today acknowledged the U.S. is unlikely to reach President Biden’s goal of vaccinating 70% of Americans by July 4. But meeting this goal is particularly urgent in the face of the Delta variant of COVID-19, which is highly contagious and expected to become the dominant strain in the U.S. in a matter of weeks. Dan is joined by Former CDC director Tom Frieden to discuss who is most vulnerable to this variant, what it means for vaccine makers, and what it tells us about our future li...
Iran this past weekend elected a new president, Ebrahim Raisi, a hard-liner whose political rivals weren’t even allowed on the ballot — and who has been sanctioned by the U.S. for human rights abuses. Dan talks with Axios World editor David Lawler about what Raisi’s election means for Iran’s people, who are facing economic hardship and a raging pandemic, and what it means for the nuclear deal signed by President Obama and scrapped by President Trump.
The latest episode of our Hard Truths series examining systemic racism in America takes a look at the multi-billion dollar marijuana industry. Today: the obstacles that two Black Latinas had to overcome when they chose to start their own businesses in the overwhelmingly white marijuana industry. Guest: Chanda Macias, CEO of Ilera Holistic Healthcare, and Women Grow and Gia Morón, CEO of GVM Communications and president of Women Grow. Credits: "Axios Today" is produced in partnership with Pushkin...
Ahead of Juneteenth, now a federal holiday, we examine how America's economy remains marred by the legacies of slavery and racial discrimination. Dan is joined by McKinsey & Co.’s Shelley Stewart III and Michael Chui to discuss a new report from the McKinsey Global Institute and McKinsey’s Institute for Black Economy Mobility, digging into the economic inequities between Black and white Americans, including massive wage and wealth gaps, and what can be done to address them.
Last week, House lawmakers introduced a series of five bipartisan bills designed to curb the power of big tech, which seemed to target Apple, Amazon, Facebook and Google in all but name. Dan speaks with Rep. David Cicilline, chair of the House antitrust committee and a sponsor on most of the bills, to learn how Congress plans to get these bills over the finish line amidst a full slate of Congressional priorities and in the wake of a bipartisan bill meant to bolster the U.S. tech sector’s ability...
America didn't have enough affordable housing before the pandemic, and the problem has only gotten worse due to a frenzied housing market and a looming end to foreclosure and eviction moratoriums. Dan digs into what can be done to increase the country's affordable housing stock, both on a policy level and in the private sector. Our guest is Colleen Briggs of J.P. Morgan Chase, which this morning issued a set of policy recommendations to bolster affordable home buying and renting.
The COVID-19 pandemic shed light on and exacerbated the structural problems in the U.S. mental health care system — which often requires patients to seek out care and pay out of pocket for it. Demand for mental health services has skyrocketed, and therapists have repeatedly reported difficulty meeting demand. Axios Re:Cap is joined by Chris Molaro, CEO of NeuroFlow, to discuss gaps in the mental health care system and how mental health technology has evolved in the midst of the pandemic. Note: T...
Sotheby’s last week auctioned off the first fine art NFT ever created, a landmark moment in the transformation of art from the physical to the digital. The winning bid was nearly $1.5 million. Axios Re:Cap goes deeper, to understand how the fine art and cryptocurrency worlds are colliding, including a conversation with Kevin McCoy, the artist whose work was just auctioned off.
