POLITICO Tech
The POLITICO Tech podcast is your download on the disruption that technology is bringing to politics and policy. New episodes on Thursdays.
- Update frequency
- every 3 days
- Average duration
- 15 minutes
- Episodes
- 1025
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2025
What happens when your doctor has Covid?
Hospitals and long-term care facilities are so short-staffed, many are relying on new CDC guidance to bring asymptomatic doctors and nurses back to work — even as the U.S. is poised to break a record…
00:13:11 |
Tue 11 Jan 2022
New year, same problems
The Senate is back in session this week — covid numbers are rising and Joe Manchin has voiced his opposition to President Biden's social spending plan. So where do Senate Democrats go from here? Mari…
00:10:53 |
Mon 10 Jan 2022
Can solar power the future of manufacturing?
The best example of the Biden administration's industrial policy goals might be at Hanwha Q Cells, a solar panel factory in Georgia which employs 700 people and manufactures more than 10,000 solar pa…
00:13:32 |
Fri 07 Jan 2022
The CDC’s rough week
This week, the CDC doubled down on its Dec. 29 guidance that asymptomatic Covid-19 patients can leave isolation after five days without a negative test. Erin Banco reports on the policy and politics …
00:12:11 |
Thu 06 Jan 2022
Schools ride (another) Covid-19 wave
The message from Education Secretary Miguel Cardona is that schools should do what they can to remain open for in-person learning. But with Omicron cases surging among students and school staff, plus…
00:11:34 |
Wed 05 Jan 2022
Amazon and Google face off against Congress
The latest product launch from Google and Amazon? Being the underdog against Congress. Emily Birnbaum on the surprising ways Amazon and Google are mobilizing to counter regulatory efforts.
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Tue 04 Jan 2022
New Jan. 6 polls show partisan rift
Thursday marks the one-year anniversary of the January 6 insurrection. As that date approaches, a slew of new polls out highlight the splintering effect the attack has with voters — and on Donald Tru…
00:11:09 |
Mon 03 Jan 2022
Presenting Weedcast: The Mormon playbook for medical marijuana
On an episode of Weedcast from June 17, POLITICO's Natalie Fertig breaks down how the Mormon church was able to help get medical marijuana green lit in deeply red Utah.
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00:06:53 |
Thu 30 Dec 2021
Rebroadcast: Lessons from Las Vegas’ reopening
Las Vegas tried to reopen without widespread vaccination, but those plans crashed into reality. Will things be different this time? POLITICO’s Megan Cassella reports.
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Wed 29 Dec 2021
Presenting POLITICO Energy: What’s the Civilian Climate Corps?
In the middle of the Great Depression, President Roosevelt founded the Civilian Conservation Corps, a group responsible for hiring hundreds of thousands of white men to develop trails and build infra…
00:07:02 |
Tue 28 Dec 2021
Presenting Playbook Deep Dive: “Meet DC’s “Lobbyist Hunter”
“Somebody’s gotta do it. It might as well be me.” So says Ivan Adler, the “lobbyist hunter” who plucks D.C.’s most idealistic Hill staffers and turns them into K Street top dogs. POLITICO’s Hailey Fu…
00:27:01 |
Mon 27 Dec 2021
Rebroadcast: Your ulti-mutt guide to pets in the White House
On today's special episode of Dogs-patch — er, Dispatch: a brief history of presidential pets at 1600 Pennsylvania, featuring the Kennedy's dog Pushinka (who might have helped avert nuclear war), Ted…
00:15:29 |
Thu 23 Dec 2021
What grade would you give the year in education?
"It's been brutal." POLITICO's Juan Perez on the biggest issues schools have faced in 2021 and the fights that are yet to come.
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00:12:29 |
Tue 21 Dec 2021
And the award goes to…
Consider this your politics-year-in-review, high school superlatives style. Ryan Lizza breaks it down.
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00:12:38 |
Mon 20 Dec 2021
Italy's succession dilemma
At least 65% of Italians agree on one thing: Prime Minister Mario Draghi is doing a good job. So good a job he's a good candidate for president — in addition to Prime Minister. The problem? Those job…
00:12:36 |
Fri 17 Dec 2021
Getting to know Biden FDA pick Robert Califf
Robert Califf sailed through his Senate confirmation hearing on Tuesday, despite some opposition from Democrats ranging from Bernie Sanders to Joe Manchin. A confirmation vote in January would give t…
00:12:57 |
Thu 16 Dec 2021
The 36 Governor elections happening next year
In the land of beignets and Jazz, the Democratic Governors Association had its winter meeting to discuss reversing nationwide trends at the polls after losses last month in Virginia and New Jersey. I…
00:08:23 |
Wed 15 Dec 2021
Georgia on the (political) mind
After a wave of blue wins in 2020 in Georgia, the GOP-led state legislature is taking steps toward dismantling the Atlanta-area engine that turned Georgia blue. Maya King reports.
Maya King is a nat…
00:12:43 |
Tue 14 Dec 2021
The tea leaves on Friday's SCOTUS ruling
The Supreme Court’s S.B. 8 ruling on Friday was mixed. It allows for some cases brought by opponents of the restrictive law to proceed — but closed major avenues for legal challenges, including one t…
00:12:57 |
Mon 13 Dec 2021
What the diplomatic boycott says about US-China relations
While athletes prepare to travel to Beijing this February for the Winter Olympics, Canada, Australia and the U.K. joined the United States this week in announcing diplomatic boycotts of the Chinese O…
00:13:12 |
Fri 10 Dec 2021
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