October 28, 2021

The supply chain crisis is crippling the mercantile business in the U.S., with overflowing ports, trucks queuing for miles, empty shelves, and rising prices – all this as the holiday season inches closer. David J. Lynch is a correspondent for The Washington Post and joins the show to discuss where it all went wrong and whether it is fair to lay the blame at President Biden’s feet.

Today President Biden heads to Rome for the G20, a pit stop on the way to the COP26 summit in Glasgow, where the world must hammer out a climate plan to avoid catastrophe. Adding to the pressure onBiden, Democrats are at a pivotal stage in the passage of their infrastructure bill worth trillions of dollars. To break down the latest, Bianna speaks with reporter Lauren Fox.

As President Biden departs the U.S., Congress is grilling the fossil fuel giants. The CEOs of Exxon, BP, Shell, and Chevron testified today virtually about whether they knew their products were fueling climate change. For more on this is Mark Hertsgaard, a journalist and executive director of the news consortium Covering Climate Now.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg today outlines a new vision for the embattled company, but experts are warning Facebook hasn’t done enough to address its problems. The company is in hot water after a whistleblower released internal documents and testified that the platform is choosing profit at any cost. Adam Conner previously headed up Facebook’s privacy and public policy team.

In her latest piece for The Atlantic, journalist Kim Ghattas focuses on three states that once offered real hope for democracy, only to be dashed: Hong Kong, Afghanistan, and Ghattas’ home country of Lebanon. Ghattas joins the show from Beirut.