CQ&A

The Latino vote played a big part in President Joe Biden’s victory over Donald Trump in November, especially in battleground states like Arizona and Nevada. In others, Latino voters helped oust Democratic incumbents. So, is there a Latino voting bloc? CQ Roll Call's Shawn Zeller tried to answer that question with Carlos Odio the founder, EquisLabs, a firm that uses data to get at what motivates America’s diverse Latino community.

To hear former U.S. national intelligence officer for Russia and Eurasia Eugene Rumer tell it: “I’m not sure we even had a Russia policy during the previous four years.” This is particularly alarming when considering that for the past decade, national security has been marked by Russian aggression toward the Western world through the annexation of Crimea from the Ukraine, the undermining of U.S.-Iran relations, and the attempted assassination and subsequent arrest of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny. 

With the announcement of a full review of U.S.-Russia policy by President Joe Biden, we wanted to examine what the future of the U.S. relationship with Russia might look like during this administration. CQ Roll Call’s Shawn Zeller speaks with Rumer, director of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace’s Russia and Eurasia Program, for this episode.

Rethinking America's policies toward China is one area that has bipartisan support in Washington these days. China's emergence as an economic superpower on the world stage — coupled with its aggressive stance toward Hong Kong, Taiwan and anything resembling human rights — has Asia experts examining how tough the U.S. should be. A new administration provides a window of opportunity to change directions. Michael Beckley, author of "Unrivaled: Why America Will Remain the World's Sole Superpower," talks with CQ Roll Call's Shawn Zeller on this episode.

Democrats have a trick up their sleeve and are planning a budget blitz. CQ Roll Call’s Shawn Zeller speaks to budget reporter Paul Krawzak on how budget reconciliation can be used to pass a new COVID-19 aid package, and how the change in precedent might affect both parties in the future.

When the pandemic finally ends it is hard to imagine what going to the office will mean.  Employers will be hard pressed to eliminate the flexibility that their workers have grown accustomed to. Is this the end of commercial real estate? CQ Roll Call's Shawn Zeller speaks to John Mack, senior partner of the New York office design firm HLW, and David Smith, vice president in the Atlanta office of commercial real estate company Cushman & Wakefield on what the future may hold.

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's former policy planning director Anne-Marie Slaughter shocked the world when she quit her high-powered job and wrote an article for The Atlantic, "Why Women Still Can't Have it All." Fast forward eight years. One book later and the head of the think tank New America, Slaughter has done a lot of writing and thinking about working mothers. The pandemic has upended families and profoundly wounded working mothers. CQ Roll Call's Shawn Zeller sits down with Slaughter to discuss the future.

The pandemic and political divisions have revealed the cracks in this country and those who are falling through them. Along the fault lines of American society are truth and free speech. These two bedrocks of the nation’s civil discourse have been challenged, questioned and even battered like never before. We wanted to explore how speech and misinformation will play out in the future CQ Roll Call's Shawn Zeller speaks to Suzanne Nossel, PEN America CEO and author of Dare to Speak.

Debt. What debt? Conventional wisdom in Washington used to be — bring down the national deficit in order to ensure a healthy economy. CQ Roll Call's Shawn Zeller speaks to economist and former Obama adviser Jason Furman, who argues that deficits aren't the end of the world.

President Donald J. Trump's time in the oval office has been unlike any of his predecessors, where he has broken many conventions. CQ Roll Call's Shawn Zeller speaks with presidential historian David Greenberg to examine whether Trump transformed the American presidency, regardless of who wins the 2020 election.

For the last half century the GOP party platform has been to destroy labor, not save it. Now comes conservative Oren Cass who advised Sen. Mitt Romney's presidential campaigns. He has caught the attention of many conservatives as he raises the question of whether a new vision for unions could be embraced by both the left and right. CQ Roll Call's Jim Saksa talks with Cass, now executive director of American Compass, and explores how unions could be reinvented.