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A former White House communications director, noted political and digital strategist, Pod Save America co-host, CNN contributor and best-selling author, Dan Pfeiffer recently released his new book title Un-Trumping America: A Plan to Make America a Democracy Again. Drawing from his experience in Democratic politics, Pfeiffer targets and calls for Democrats to accept the progressive solutions supported by current party nominees, such as abolishing the electoral college. 

Porchlight Books just released a list of their 15 best-selling business books of 2019 and Range, by APB speaker David Epstein is #4, ahead of Marc Benioff, Brené Brown, Chip Conley and others! Range has been an accolade magnet ever since its buzzed-about release, when it shot to #1 on The New York Times Bestseller List. Since then, it has been named one of Amazon’s Best Business and Leadership Books of 2019, Apple’s Best Audiobooks of 2019, Inc.’s Must-Read Books for Entrepreneurs in 2019, Bookpal’s Outstanding Works of Literature 2019 Longlist and Porchlight’s Business Book Awards Longlist. This latest honor from Porchlight is derived from the immense and far-ranging readership that Range has found this year, being a book that challenges conventional wisdom and makes readers think and rethink their assumptions about everything from business to parenting.

A legendary news anchor and the best-selling author of What Unites Us, APB speaker Dan Rather is now taking on a different role behind the camera as the executive producer of the new film, Human Nature. In Human Nature, Rather tells the story of the biggest tech revolution that has occurred in modern history and how it will forever change medicine. The groundbreaking discovery of CRISPR led to the ability to control a person’s building blocks of life, such as curing life-threatening diseases and designing our own children. The film shows the approach of all parties involved surrounding the discovery, from scientists to families to bioengineers and others. Human Nature is set to hit theaters next month.

Former Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO) and APB speaker Gro Harlem Brundtland weighed in on the coronavirus epidemic, drawing parallels to the SARS epidemic that originated in China in 2002. Brundtland was at the helm of the WHO when the global threat of SARS arose, and her clearheaded leadership during a time of hysteria helped curtail and contain the spread of the disease.

Joining the likes of Greta Thunberg in the top ranks, APB Speaker Nora McInerny’s, “We don’t ‘move on’ from grief. We move forward with it,” has been named the fourth most popular TED Talk of 2019. The list of 19 talks, ranked by number of watches, “reflect a year defined by fighting for what’s right, believing in the good despite all the bad, supporting others and yourself — and hoping for the best in the decade to come,” according to TED. Nora’s talk, with more than 3.7 million views and growing, recounts a six week period in her life when she miscarried her second baby, lost her Dad to cancer and became a widow at age 31 when her husband died of brain cancer. Described as “heartbreaking and hilarious,” Nora’s TED Talk champions her liberating approach to loss and grief. “A grieving person is going to laugh again and smile again,” she says. “They’re going to move forward. But that doesn’t mean that they’ve moved on.”

NBA legend and APB speaker Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is collaborating with the History channel to bring audiences the groundbreaking, one-hour documentary Black Patriots: Heroes of the Revolution, which premieres Wednesday, February 19^th at 10pm ET/PT. Abdul-Jabbar has been heavily invested in bringing light to the untold stories of African-Americans throughout our nation’s history since he retired from his record-breaking NBA career.

The founder and CEO of Amesite Inc., an artificial intelligence-powered software company that delivers engaging and cost-effective online college and university courses, and former CEO of one of MIT’s 50 Smartest Companies, Sakti3, speaker Ann Marie Sastry recently explained the important role AI plays in our daily lives in interviews with Yahoo Finance and Squawk Box.

Known as The New York Times bestselling author of both Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World and The Sports Gene, APB speaker David Epstein is gaining major recognition from former NFL star and current Fox Sports analyst Tony Gonzalez.

APB speakers Nick Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn's new book Tightrope: Americans Reaching for Hope is now #2 on the New York Times Bestseller List. Known for their international reporting, the investigative duo turned their focus domestically for the book, examining the epidemic of depression, unemployment, poverty and addiction that is plaguing the working class across America – an ...

February is Black History Month, and this year’s theme is “African Americans and the Vote” in honor of the centennial of the 19th amendment, which granted women the right to vote, and the sesquicentennial of the 15th amendment, which granted black men the right to vote. Voting is the foundational promise of true democracy and our APB speakers Ilyasah Shabazz, Melissa Harris-Perry, Andrew Gillum and Admiral Michelle Howard have all fought tirelessly to realize the vision of justice, equality and freedom for our country. During this Black History Month, they all provide perspective on how far we have come and how far we have left to go: