Most small business stories from the pandemic are about about pivoting or perishing, but there's also been an unexpected surge in new small business creation. One example is Agua Bonita, a canned beverage company that launched last year after both of its co-founders were laid off.
Axios Re:Cap talks with Agua Bonita co-founder Kayla Castañeda and Techstars founder David Cohen about what it was like for startups over the past 14 months, and what recovery means for businesses that didn't exist before COVID-19. Plus, a conversation with Wall Drug proprietor Rick Hustead.
In this bonus story for How It Happened: Trump's Last Stand, Axios political correspondent Jonathan Swan details a botched attempt, made during President Trump's final days in office, to rapidly withdraw all U.S. troops from Afghanistan.
Trump desperately wanted ending America's longest war to be part of his legacy. Instead, it will be Joe Biden's.
Nonetheless, in a recent interview with Swan, Trump took credit for Biden's announcement, insisting he set in motion a plan that could not be stopped.
Swan provides listeners the full story of what Trump tried to do, how, and why it ultimately didn't happen.
Follow the show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen so you don't miss our second season coming later this year.
When George Floyd was killed, the protests for racial justice put pressure on news organizations to do what many people had been urging for years: hire and promote more journalists of color, listen to them, let them cover stories relevant to their communities. Like the killings of Breonna Taylor and George Floyd. Or, more recently, the Atlanta spa shootings.
Guests: Toulouse Olurunnipa, reporter for The Washington Post and a CNN political analyst, and Martin G. Reynolds, the co-executive director of the Maynard Institute for Journalism Education.
Buford Highway is a 10-mile stretch near Atlanta that's home to over 1,000 immigrant-owned small businesses. A constellation of home-away-from-homes, particularly for Asian and Latino communities.
Axios Re:Cap speaks with Lily Pabian, executive director of the We Love BuHi nonprofit, to discuss how the pandemic and rise in anti-Asian hate, including the nearby spa murders, impacted Buford Highway's small business community.
Yesterday, a court in The Hague ordered oil giant Royal Dutch Shell to reduce its carbon emissions. In a first-of-its kind ruling, Shell was ordered to cut emissions by 45% by 2030, 25% more than their previous 2030 goal.
It’s just one of the latest moves to hold Big Oil accountable on climate change.
Plus, Haitian migrants in the U.S. react to renewed deportation protection.
And, U.S. intelligence is now intensifying its investigation of the origins of COVID-19.
