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Race in America: Bakari Sellers on My Vanishing Country, his new book

May 29, 2020

In a hard week, Bakari Sellers– the youngest-ever member of South Carolina's state legislature, CNN commentator and influential African American attorney–points this nation forward in his new book, My Vanishing Country.

Another black man chokes and dies under the knee of a cop in Minnesota, white privilege and...

AI + Robots = Revolution.

May 22, 2020

Drawing on real life research and technology, P.W. Singer's new technological thriller, Burn In, shows how AI gets real fast and asks who controls our future. Will Siri, Alexa and smart houses and, above all, AI robots overtake the human grasp on our destiny? Will tech moguls pull the strings? For good or ill? The Wall...

Inside the Trump White House Now – The Washington Post’s Ashley Parker

May 19, 2020

The scenes at the White House press briefings have been wild for years. Crazy talk about injecting bleach and light are the latest. Ashley Parker covered Mitt Romney in 2012 and Jeb Bush and then President Trump's run for the Presidency in 2016 when she was with The New York Times and she now covers the Trump White...

Where Is The Vaccine? Omar Khan, PhD Lays It Out

May 15, 2020

The world is desperate for a vaccine. It’s a life or death race with massive geo political implications. A game of exposure, time and risk as more mutations of COVID-19 increases the monumental task for the scientists. The need for speed and scale is enormous. Omar Khan is part of the biotech revolution for nucleic...

Will Big Tech save us or enslave us in the Covid-19 meltdown? Dipayan Ghosh says: YES.

May 12, 2020

Dipayan Ghosh’s new book, Terms of Disservice: How Silicon Valley is Destructive by Design calls for a Digital Bill of Rights, anti-trust action on Big Tech and new rules to ensure the tech titans have American democracy in mind. But in this interview, he surprised us! He says YES to Google digitizing...