CQ Future looks at how policy today impacts our future.
Latest episodes
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20 min
CQ Future: Politics
It has been a little more than a year since we launched CQ Future. At the time, the pandemic was in full swing, as was the Black Lives Matter movement. It was a moment of great unc…
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20 min
CQ Future: Ransomware attacks
Ransomware attacks, in which hackers shut down computer systems and demand payment to undo the damage, are growing more brazen. The attacks have hit local governments as well as co…
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24 min
CQ Future: Environment, Social and Governance (ESG)
Amazon is at the center of a firestorm from employee activists and shareholders who want the company to pay more attention to environmental justice — a social movement that focuses…
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22 min
CQ Future: Amtrak
Amtrak, the nation's rail system, has been on the brink for years. It went on life support during the pandemic and survived thanks to a $2 billion infusion from the government. But…
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25 min
CQ Future: 'Big tech'
Is “Big Tech” too big to dismantle? That is the question on our minds. It appears to be the one industry that has galvanized both Democrats and the GOP as they try to dismantle the…
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25 min
CQ Future: Refugee policy
"It is deeply broken." That is the overall assessment of the process and policy to let refugees into the country from the former head of the agency in charge of immigration. Both s…
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29 min
CQ Future: Money in politics
The political money game is changing. Small donor fundraising is at an all-time high, while corporations are holding off on donating in the wake of the January 6 insurrection at th…
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25 min
CQ Future: The GOP
President Donald Trump is ensconced at Mar-a-Lago and everyone — on all sides of the aisle — is curious to know what his influence will be on the GOP. We turn to Rep. Mike Johnson,…
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22 min
CQ Future: Vaccine passports
The EU is considering requiring citizens to get a vaccine passport to move freely around Europe. After more than a year of lockdowns, some may embrace the idea. The U.S. is also we…
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30 min
CQ Future: Restaurants
We began this series last year to examine how the COVID 19 crisis has influenced public policy decisions. This week we reprised some of our podcasts to mark the one-year anniversar…
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25 min
CQ Future: Working mothers
We began this series last year to examine how the COVID 19 crisis has influenced public policy decisions. This week we are reprising some of our podcasts to mark the one-year anniv…
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25 min
CQ Future: Public Transport
We began this series last year to examine how the pandemic was influencing public policy decisions. This week we are reprising some of our episodes to mark the one-year anniversary…
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21 min
CQ Future: Telehealth
We began this series last year to examine how the pandemic was influencing public policy decisions. This week we are reprising some of our episodes to mark the one-year anniversary…
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16 min
CQ Future: Housing
We began this series last year to examine how the pandemic was influencing public policy decisions. This week we are reprising some of our episodes to mark the one-year anniversary…
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21 min
CQ Future: The Latino vote
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 voter…
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19 min
CQ Future: US-Russia relations
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 pa…
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24 min
CQ Future: US-China relations
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 — couple…
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17 min
CQ Future: COVID-19 aid
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…
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23 min
CQ Future: The office
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 a…
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26 min
CQ Future: Working mothers
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…