3 Takeaways™

“We trained a whole country.”

It sounds like an exaggeration.

It’s not - according to Patrick McGee, author of Apple in China.

So what actually happened in China?

Dr. Tom Mihaljevic, CEO of Cleveland Clinic and a leading heart surgeon, explains how medicine is already changing in ways most people don’t see.

He has spent his career performing complex heart surgeries and now leads one of the world’s top hospitals.

A conversation about what’s changing in care and what it means for patients right now.

Iran briefly showed it could choke off a waterway carrying nearly a fifth of the world’s oil.

That’s the visible threat.

The real risk may be something else entirely.

Former Deputy National Security Advisor and U.S. Special Representative to Iran Elliott Abrams breaks down where Iran's strategy backfired, whether those in power in Tehran can hold on, and why the most dangerous consequence could outlast the war itself.
He is senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations.
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We’re entering a world where life itself could become programmable.

What if creating new forms of life becomes as simple as writing code? 

Geneticist Adrian Woolfson explains how close we are — and why the consequences could be extraordinary.
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Is the war with Iran actually a turning point for the Middle East?

Dan Kurtzer - former U.S. Ambassador to Israel and Egypt, advisor to presidents, peace negotiator and Princeton professor - has seen these moments up close, when expectations surge - and the outcome looks nothing like the promise.

His unfiltered take on Iran - and what actually changes after a war like this.
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We’ve been nominated for a Webby Award—one of the top honors in podcasts.  
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