Washington Post Sports Columnist Jerry Brewer says the idea of Rodgers leaving the team, after 16 years, is jarring (Listen below and read)

Washington Post Reporter – and author – Devlin Barrett tells WTOP this happened early in the Trump era after reporting on Russia’s interference in the 2016 election (Listen below and read)

Hans Nichols with Axios tells WTOP a lot will depend on meetings between the president and Republicans next week. (Listen below and read)

The Daily Beast’s Matt Lewis talks to WTOP about the former president being kept off Facebook and what Liz Cheney’s battle with the Republican Party says about the GOP (Listen below and read about Cheney & Trump/Facebook)

Vice News Chief Political Correspondent Liz Landers talks to WTOP about the administration’s incentives and other methods to get most everyone vaccinated (Listen below and read)

Axios Congressional Reporter Kadia Goba talks to WTOP about her scoop that House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy has had enough of Liz Cheney (Listen below and read more from AP)

Politico’s Anita Kumar tells WTOP her reporting shows – in a month or two – President Biden may go it alone on passing the measures he considers vitally important. (Listen below and read)

Louis Jacobson tells WTOP how both politicians stretched the truth, at times, during their Wednesday addresses (Listen below and read Politifact’s take on the Biden speech and the Scott speech)

Kevin Callison tells WTOP about his new entry in Health Affairs on people who were forced to miss out on critical medical appointments due to COVID (Listen below and read)

As the feds investigate Andrew Brown Junior’s death in North Carolina – WTOP hears from Dr. Jennifer Cobbina about the rarity of a guilty verdict for police officers (Listen below and read about Brown’s case in NC)

The Brookings Institution’s Michael O’Hanlon tells WTOP this new recommendation makes sense (Listen below and read)

Anatol Lieven, with Georgetown University in Qatar and The Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, tells WTOP about whether Navalny’s opposition is a real threat to Vladimir Putin (Listen below and read the NY Times report on Navalny)

Politico’s Nicholas Wu tells WTOP there are conversations but no breakthroughs among Democrats and Republicans (Listen below and read CNN)

Trone Dowd with Vice News tells WTOP about Chauvin’s potential prison sentence and the work racial justice activists would like to see done now that this ex-cop has been found guilty (Listen below and read Dowd’s piece on Nancy Pelosi’s comments after the verdicts)

Washington Post Editorial Writer Molly Roberts joined WTOP minutes after the verdict was read in the Minneapolis courtroom (Listen below and read WaPo’s recently published Reimagine Safety)

Kim Wehle, University of Baltimore, gives WTOP her reaction to Derek Chauvin being found guilty across the board and his possible sentence (Listen below and read more from wtop.com)

The former vice president – and Democratic presidential nominee – is dead at 93. ABC News Political Director Rick Klein joined WTOP with his reflections of the man who transformed what it means to be a veep. (Listen below and read)

Apple is about to shake up the very business model the Internet is built on. Pop-ups on  your iPhone will ask you whether a particular app can track your activity. Journalist Bob Sullivan says this is revolutionary and offers details to WTOP (Listen below and read)

Now that we’re finally getting vaccinated and are planning trips again, here’s a real kick in the face. There aren’t enough rental cars! Consumerman Herb Weisbaum, with checkbook.org, explains on WTOP (Listen below and read)

NBC Producer/Reporter Frank Thorp used one of those old-time professional flashbulb cameras to capture amazing portraits of some of the people who lived through the Capitol riot – and he asked them to reflect on what happened. The result is “After the Riot” (Listen to Thorp’s WTOP interview below)

Critic Christian Toto tells WTOP he’s quite impressed with this horror flick (Listen below and read the LA Times review)

NBC-4’s Scott MacFarlane tells WTOP about the hundreds of cases flooding the U.S. District Court for DC (Listen below & watch/read here)

Dr. Lorenzo Boyd joins WTOP to talk about the latest out of Brooklyn Center, MN and why there are still so many violent interactions between Black and brown people and police. (Listen below and read more about Daunte Wright)

Consumerman Herb Weisbaum, with checkbook.org tells WTOP about FEMA’s offer to help pay your funeral costs if they’re related to COVID. FEMA says their phone lines have been overwhelmed but they’re working on a fix. (Listen below and read)

Politico Pentagon Reporter Lara Seligman joins WTOP to discuss Joe Biden accomplishing what has eluded four other presidents (Listen below and read AP’s analysis)

Politico’s Chris Cadelago tells WTOP we still don’t know who this person is (Listen below and read)

Health Affairs Editor in Chief Alan Weil tells WTOP about a new report showing why U-S testing and contact tracing was so poor early in the pandemic (Listen below)

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Jennifer Ng’andu tells WTOP about its recent survey outlining the optimism and fears of parents of color. (Listen below)

Bloomberg’s Roxana Tiron tells WTOP there could be a battle over these Pentagon numbers (Listen below)

Vice News Political Reporter Greg Walters, host of “The Couch Report” on Vice Digital, tells WTOP about future struggles for this new president’s agenda. (Listen below and read about guns)

We talk about the race to vaccinate the world for COVID, ‘vaccine passports’ and more with Dr. Jay Schnitzer on WTOP (Listen below and read about blood clots as a vaccine side effect)

Former Surgeon General Dr. Regina Benjamin tells WTOP a lot of mental health issues go unchecked during, and after, the pandemic. She and colleagues at the Bipartisan Policy Center say family doctors should be paired with mental health professionals (Listen below)

UCSF’s Dr. Monica Gandhi answers questions from WTOP about the government’s revised travel guidelines, mixing COVID vaccines and more (Listen below and read)

Politico’s Zach Montellaro joins WTOP to discuss the business world’s reaction to Georgia’s controversial election law (Listen below and read)

Critic Christian Toto tells WTOP ‘The Unholy’ is perfectly fine but we’ve seen this kind of horror film before – meantime ‘Godzilla vs. Kong’ sends people to the cinema even though they could stay at home and watch HBO Max (Listen below & read the NY Times review)

NBC’s Jonathan Allen joins WTOP on the Biden infrastructure plan and the book he recently wrote with The Hill’s Amie Parnes –  “Lucky: How Joe Biden Barely Won the Presidency” (Listen below and read more about the new plan)

Politico’s Eugene Daniels discusses the ‘live political grenade’ President Biden has handed Vice President Harris (Listen below and read Daniels’ story on the political stakes)

It’s organized labor’s biggest story in decades: Thousands of Amazon warehouse workers in Bessemer, Alabama are voting on whether to join a union. Motherboard’s Lauren Gurley joins WTOP to explain the situation at this warehouse (Listen below and read)

Health Affairs’ Rob Waters tells WTOP about a new model of small nursing homes that keeps your parents and grandparents safe (Listen below & read)

GW Economist (and former Transportation Department Assistant Secretary) Diana Furchtgott-Roth tells WTOP about her Wall Street Journal op-ed on the risks to our GPS system and how it must be shored up (Listen below)

Politico’s Anita Kumar joins WTOP to discuss the news President Biden made in his first, hour-long news conference (Listen below and read)

Critic Christian Toto tells WTOP – despite Bob Odenkirk being such an interesting actor – ‘Nobody’ leaves you with nothing. (Listen below and read AP’s take)

Dr. Ross McKinney, Chief Scientific Officer, Association of American Medical Colleges on our battle with COVID in mid-2021 (Listen below and read the latest about the AstraZeneca vaccine)

WaPo Editorial Writer Emefa Addo Agawu speaks with WTOP about the Post’s 7-part series and how nobody should jump to any conclusions when they hear ‘police reform’

Politico’s Megan Cassella tells WTOP Black Americans were among the first to lose their jobs in early 2020 and are now being left behind in the recovery (Listen below and read here piece)

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Dr. Domenica Rubino (Washington Center for Weight Management & Research) tells WTOP about a new study she led on how the diabetes drug semaglutide helped reduce people’s cravings to overeat. (Listen below, read more & sign up for a clinical trial)

Politico Congressional Reporter Burgess Everett on efforts to save the filibuster and get senators to work together (Listen below and read)

Critic Christian Toto tells WTOP this four hour epic is much better than the 2017 version. (Listen below and read AP’s take)

NBC’s Julia Ainsley joins WTOP to discuss the continuing flow of unaccompanied minors coming into the United States from Mexico. She also talks about her reporting the Biden Administration is limiting what the Border Patrol can tell the media. (Listen below)

Former TSA Executive Steve Karoly tells WTOP going to the airport these days means you have to do a lot of the things airport employees used to do for you (Listen below and read)

The president tells ABC News New York Governor Andrew Cuomo should resign if the state attorney general’s investigation confirms the claims against him. Politico’s Daniel Lippman has analysis on WTOP (Listen below and read)

Consumerman Herb Weisbaum, with checkbook.org, tells WTOP about new, threatening ways crooks pretend to be from Social Security, to steal your identity and your money (Listen below and read)

Georgetown Computer Scientist Cal Newport talks to WTOP about how your always-full inbox messing up your work and adding to your stress – all outlined in his new book “A World Without Email.” Listen to the full interview below

Politico’s Alex Thompson discusses the president’s new, massive COVID relief bill and the risks it may not be felt by all Americans (Listen below and read)

Critic Christian Toto reviews ‘Cherry’ starring Tom Holland – and directed by the Russo Brothers (Listen below & read AP’s take)

ABC News Political Director Rick Klein looks at Joe Biden’s first presidential prime-time address to the nation (Listen below and read)

Consumerman Herb Weisbaum, with checkbook.org, tells WTOP it’s bad enough crooks used people’s identity to steal unemployment benefits last year…now those same victims are having tax-filing problems. (Listen below and read)

WTOP Sports Director George Wallace got his first dose of the Pfizer COVID vaccine at Six Flags America, one of Maryland’s mass vaccination sites. (Listen below and read)

Politico’s Christopher Cadelago joins WTOP after The American Rescue Plan passes the House on the way to President Biden’s desk (Listen below and read)

NBC’s Julia Ainsley shares her reporting with WTOP (Listen below)

Health Affairs Editor-in-Chief Alan Weil tells WTOP about how the nearly $2 trillion measure could help improve Americans’ health (Listen below and read about a new Health Affairs study on high turnover in nursing homes)

National Journal Editor-in-Chief Jeff Dufour talks to WTOP about the nine-hour logjam that stalled the Senate’s work on the COVID bill Friday, and how Manchin was at the heart of it. (Read and listen below)

Consumerman Herb Weisbaum, with checkbook.org, tells WTOP about a record number of 2021 models earning a Top Safety Pick award from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (Read and listen below)

The House passes police reform and voting rights measures before getting out of the Capitol Thursday morning for security purposes. Politico’s Anita Kumar explains on WTOP (Read and listen below)

President Biden slams the Texas and Mississippi governors for ending mask mandates, even as most Americans remain unvaccinated. Mitre Corporation’s Doctor Paul Jarris talks about it with WTOP (Listen below and read)

WTOP asks Politico Pro’s Darius Tahir whether Maryland stands to benefit from Redfield’s advice on fighting coronavirus. (Listen below and read about the selection)

We discuss Tuesday’s big stories from the White House with Cam Joseph of Vice News (Listen below and read about Tanden and WH/vaccines)

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Native Americans are more likely to get COVID and other diseases. Now more indigenous people are graduating from medical school and returning to their communities to help. Journalist Sarah Kwon shares her Health Affairs article with WTOP

Government watchdogs say Joe Biden’s administration could be doing a lot more to promote transparency. Politico’s Anita Kumar shares her article with WTOP

CNET’s Roger Cheng says CBS All Access is changing to Paramount Plus (Listen below and read)

Christian Toto reviews ‘Rush to Judgement’ a documentary about the Covington Catholic kids’ DC visit in January 2019. The movie features analysis by WTOP’s Neal Augenstein

Lending Tree’s Matt Schulz tells WTOP half of Americans say they’ve lost their favorite food place to the pandemic (Check out the survey and listen below)

Politico’s David Siders joins WTOP to discuss his article about anti-Trump Republicans’ struggles to find a new political home

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Consumerman Herb Weisbaum, with checkbook.org, tells WTOP about the latest tax rules (Listen below and read)

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WTOP Car Guy Mike Parris reviews the new Ford Ranger (Listen to his comments below)

Critic Christian Toto highly recommends Nomadland at the theater or on Hulu – he also wants you to check out the Cruella trailer

(Listen to his Nomadland review below and read the AP’s take)

Consumerman Herb Weisbaum, with checkbook.org, tells WTOP about the Black Dollar Index (listen below and read)

University of Baltimore Law Professor Kim Wehle joins WTOP on the eve of the impeachment vote (Listen to her analysis below and get the latest from AP)

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Consumerman Herb Weisbaum, with Checkbook.org, tells WTOP you must get in the habit of setting money aside in case of  emergency (Read and listen below)

While Virginia is close to adding a Voting Rights Act – some Maryland Republican state senators are pushing for laws on voter ID and mail-in ballot signature verification. Maryland Matters’ Bennett Leckrone joins WTOP with the story (read and listen below)

Lending Tree’s Matt Schulz tells WTOP a lot of people, who are putting money on the game, run the risk of going into debt (read and listen below)

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Consumerman Herb Weisbaum – with Checkbook.org – tells WTOP to watch out for bogus credit repair offers (read and listen below)

The Washington Post’s Dan Diamond shares his story with WTOP (Listen below)

Katie Benner of the New York Times joined WTOP with her DOJ exclusive (Listen below and read her story)

Will Lil Wayne and Sheldon Silver get a pardon? Will President Trump pardon himself? Politico’s Anita Kumar joins WTOP with the latest (Listen below and read more from Kumar & the NYTimes)

Washington Post Political Investigative Reporter Carol Leonnig tells WTOP about her Friday night exclusive (Listen below and read)

Christian Toto reviews the new Amazon Prime offering on WTOP (Listen below and read AP’s take)

Health Affairs Editor-in-Chief Alan Weil discusses the slow pace of coronavirus vaccine distribution (Listen below, read about things possibly speeding up and read about the article Alan mentions at the end)

Consumerman Herb Weisbaum with Checkbook.org tells WTOP some of us may have to wait until we file our 2020 tax returns (Listen below and read Herb’s article)

No matter which handle President Trump tries to use his tweets are being deleted. CNET’s Ian Sherr joins WTOP with his take. (Listen below, read Ian’s new column & the latest from wtop.com 

Vice TV’s Marley Clements tells WTOP law enforcement would’ve known the U.S. Capitol attack was coming if it had monitored QAnon’s online chatter. (Listen below and read here) QAnon: The Search for Q” premiers January 26th at 10pm ET 

Christian Toto loved the first ‘Wonder Woman’ but has few nice things to say about the sequel (Listen below and read AP’s more charitable take)

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Consumerman Herb Weisbaum, with checkbook.org, says overdraft fees are higher than ever and you need to stop paying them (Listen below and read more at wtop.com)

The country waits to see what President Trump will do as a government shutdown looms and COVID relief hangs in the balance. Paul Blest of Vice News has analysis on WTOP (Listen below and read the latest from AP)

Politico’s Natasha Bertrand shares her reporting with WTOP

Politico’s Dan Diamond tells WTOP former top Trump appointee Paul Alexander repeatedly urged top health officials to let millions of Americans be infected by the virus, in the name of “herd immunity.” (Listen below and read Dan’s article)

Alayna Treene of Axios tells WTOP the GOP seems reluctant to hold hearings for Biden’s nominees before the inauguration

Health Affairs’ Alan Weil tells WTOP a coronavirus vaccine can be successful without everybody in the nation getting it (Read and listen below)

Google’s Molly VandenBerg tells WTOP ‘election results’ was a bigger search topic than even ‘coronavirus’ this year (Listen below and read more here)

WTOP Tech Guy Gregg Stebben responds to a WaPo report Facebook is being hit with antitrust cases from 40 states and the feds.

Emily Hamilton tells WTOP Metro should sell the land surrounding its stations to solve its money problems

Checkbook.org‘s Herb Weisbaum tells WTOP it’s time to delete your unused online accounts – or valuable data may be stolen (Listen below and read more at wtop.com)

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Cybershopping records are being broken left and right during the pandemic – CyberScout’s Adam Levin tells WTOP there are a lot of online scams to look out for (Listen below and read about a new CyberScout/Harris Poll survey)

In a seismic shift Warner Brothers will stream all its 2021 new releases on HBO Max. Christian Toto joins WTOP to talk about whether this is the beginning of the end for going to the movies.

Christian Toto differs from many of his fellow critics by giving ‘Hillbilly Elegy’ on Netflix a pretty good grade – we also discussed ‘Uncle Frank’ (listen below and read other reviews of Hillbilly Elegy and Uncle Frank)

Checkbook.org‘s Herb Weisbaum tells WTOP you’re much better off using credit cards for your holiday shopping (listen below and read Herb’s article)

Dr. Arthur Caplan tells WTOP how soon he thinks we’ll be able to get our Covid shots and start to live our lives again (Listen below and read about new coronavirus restrictions)

SecurityNerd‘s Julie Ryan Evans tells WTOP – with record holiday package delivery this year – there are ways to make sure crooks don’t grab your gifts before you get home. (Listen below and read more here)

ProPublica’s Isaac Arnsdorf tells WTOP dozens of policy-changes are underway during the administration’s final weeks (Listen below and read Isaac’s article)

David Hill of Hill Research Consultants tells WTOP people generally won’t pick up the phone to talk to pollsters anymore, and that is making presidential polls less accurate (Listen below and read Hill’s op-ed here)

Yale’s Jason Schwartz, and colleagues, are writing about the biggest expected challenges related to the new Covid-19 vaccines. (Listen to Schwartz below, read their Health Affairs research and their USA Today op-ed)

Critic Christian Toto tells WTOP Chan’s film is terrible (check out the neutral NY Times review) while the Wonder Woman streaming release could change movie history

The Washington Post’s Will Hobson discusses his latest article outlining sexual harassment allegations against the WFT (listen below and read)

Journalist Kayla Ruble was in the room Tuesday night as two Republican members on Michigan’s Wayne County Board of Canvassers voted against certifying of the county’s votes — then abruptly reversed course amid heavy criticism. (Listen to Ruble below and read about how this process usually works)

Christian Toto reviews the new, dark, holiday comedy, starring Mel Gibson. He also tells us whether we should see ‘Come Away’ and ‘Freaky’ (listen below and read other reviews of Fatman – Come Away – Freaky)

Ten days after the election, President Trump refuses to concede. Read more here and listen below to Vice News Deputy DC Bureau Chief Todd Zwillich tell WTOP Republican Senators are saying one thing in front of the microphones and another behind the scenes.

The New Yorker’s Evan Osnos talks to WTOP about his new book “Joe Biden: The Life, the Run, and What Matters Now” and the difference between Biden’s failed presidential run in the late 80’s and now.

Film Critic Christian Toto tells WTOP whether ‘Come Play’ is full of scares despite its PG-13 rating (Read his review and listen below)

Princeton’s Janet Currie tells WTOP when it comes to supporting the health of children and families, what Americans say is not what we do. She writes about it in the latest issue of Health Affairs (listen below)

Checkbook.org‘s Herb Weisbaum says criminals know about all the packages we’re ordering and they’re trying to fool us. (Listen below and read here)

WTOP Car Guy Mike Parris says this compact sedan has a lot more to offer than past models (Listen below and read here)

The Washington Post’s Glenn Kessler tells WTOP both candidates got their facts wrong but President Trump did it much more often (more from AP)

Christian Toto reviews the Borat sequel ‘Subsequent Moviefilm’ on WTOP (listen below and check out AP’s take here)

The U.S. intelligence community says threatening emails were sent by Iran, but made to look like they came from far-right American group Proud Boys. WTOP National Security Correspondent JJ Green talks about FBI promises that your vote WILL count, despite this interference.

Generic drugs don’t always work as well as the brand names. Stanford medical professor Kevin Schulman found that out when his daughter’s ADHD medication was refilled. He writes about it in Health Affairs and shares with WTOP.