freelance writer and editor
Freelance writer and editor; author of several books that go behind the scenes of the Disney Company, including Realityland: True-Life Adventures at Walt Disney World and Mouse Tales: A Behind the Ears Look at Disneyland
Shanghai Disneyland Opens, but Will the Chinese Come? Exported Disneylands have not always started out strong. Will the Magic Kingdom in Shanghai be a different story? The original Disneyland in Anaheim covers 100 acres. Disneyland in Shanghai spreads over 1000. It's the biggest Magic Kingdom of all, with 30 attractions -- more than half of which are original to the new location. David Koenig, author of five books about the Disney Company, including Mouse Tales: A Behind the Ears Look at Disneyland , gives us a preview.
Disney’s No-Fly Zone You’re probably familiar with the concept of the no-fly zone: It’s protected airspace over, say, sensitive military areas or the Kurdish areas of Iraq. But you might be surprised to learn there’s a no-fly zone over Disneyland in Anaheim, and one over Disney World in Florida. A lobbyist managed to get it to block banner advertising over the park. Is it an abuse of no-fly zones?
The week that wouldn't quit Will next week get even weirder? (Special one-hour episode)
Trump's 'America First' goes missing abroad In the Middle East, President Trump is changing some policies of the Obama Administration—and reversing his own campaign attacks on Islam as a religion that "hates us." We hear about his visit to Saudi Arabia and what's at stake for the rest of his foreign excursion.
Replacing Obamacare: Now you see it… now you don’t As the Senate deliberates replacing Obmacare, health coverage for millions of people is at stake. There've been no public hearings, and a draft measure won't be made public. Is the House version so unpopular that that Senate is hiding a version that looks much the same?
Human Rights in the era of Donald Trump President Trump’s UN Ambassador, Nikki Haley, said today the US might pull out of the United Nations’ Human Rights Council. Serious violators of human rights are members of the Council itself–and a US resignation could make things worse. Later on today’s show, now that he’s into his second term, comedian turned US Senator Al Franken is telling jokes again.