Author and lobbyist Riva Levinson discusses her new book “Choosing the Hero" with VOA's Carol Castiel and Kim Lewis on Press Conference USA. The book recounts Riva’s behind-the-scenes lobbying for Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, the first woman elected to lead an African nation. Listen for Press Conference USA Saturday and Sunday on the Voice of America.

Host Carol Castiel and VOA's Rick Pantaleo speak with futurist Amy Webb, CEO and Founder of Future Today Institute, about the latest technological and digital trends for 2018 as well as the positive and negative aspects of social media.

Host Carol Castiel and VOA’s Rick Pantaleo speak with futurist Amy Webb, CEO and Founder of Future Today Institute, about the latest technological and digital trends for 2018 as well as the positive and negative aspects of social media.

On this special year-end edition of Press Conference USA, host Carol Castiel brings you excerpts from conversations with some of her most distinguished guests in 2017, including Republican and Democratic members of Congress Charlie Dent and Thomas Suozzi, Ambassador James Jeffrey and the President of the Council on Foreign Relations, Richard Haass.

On this special year-end edition of Press Conference USA, host Carol Castiel brings you excerpts from conversations with some of her most distinguished guests in 2017, including Republican and Democratic members of Congress Charlie Dent and Thomas Suozzi, Ambassador James Jeffrey and the President of the Council on Foreign Relations, Richard Haass.

On this edition of Press Conference USA, Host Carol Castiel and VOA Economics editor Jim Randle interview Steven Rosenthal, Senior Fellow in the Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center at the Urban Institute about the politics and substance of Republican-led efforts to overhaul the US tax code, which if successful, would be the first piece of significant legislation under the Trump administration.

On this edition of Press Conference USA, Host Carol Castiel and VOA Economics editor Jim Randle interview Steven Rosenthal, Senior Fellow in the Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center at the Urban Institute about the politics and substance of Republican-led efforts to overhaul the US tax code, which if successful, would be the first piece of significant legislation under the Trump administration.

Ambassador James Jeffrey, former U.S. Ambassador to Iraq and Turkey, now senior fellow at Washington Institute for Near East Policy, talks with host Carol Castiel about a range of policy challenges in the Middle East from President Donald Trump's controversial decision to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel to the rise of Iran in Iraq, Syria and Yemen.

Ambassador James Jeffrey, former U.S. Ambassador to Iraq and Turkey, now senior fellow at Washington Institute for Near East Policy, talks with host Carol Castiel about a range of policy challenges in the Middle East from President Donald Trump’s controversial decision to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel to the rise of Iran in Iraq, Syria and Yemen.

On this encore edition of Press Conference USA, Sheryll Cashin, author and Georgetown University Law Professor discusses with host Carol Castiel and VOA's Morgan Mendenhall, her newest book entitled: "Loving: Interracial Intimacy in America and the Threat to White Supremacy." It was published on the 50th anniversary of the landmark 1967 US Supreme Court decision "Loving versus the State of Virginia," which struck down state laws that banned interracial marriage.