New White House (acting) Chief of Staff and Postmates Delivery Bots




The Daily Dive show

Summary: A huge court ruling to wipe out Obamacare has revived the health care debate and will have far reaching effects. While a judge ruled that the Affordable Care Act was unconstitutional, the case may not be fully resolved until 2020, which could make it the defining issue of the next election. Ginger Gibson, political reporter for Reuters, joins us to discuss this ruling and the next Chief of Staff, Mick Mulvaney. Next, the face of retail is changing. There has been a decline of American malls, and growing divides between the richest and poorest Americans. This is causing an increase in big luxury brands, but also the rise of the dollar store as a main shopping destination for many. Erica Pandey, retail reporter for Axios, joins us to discuss how dollar stores are picking apart the market and will be the big retail survivors. Finally, delivery service Postmates is on a mission to build the delivery robot of the future. Postmates has its own robotics division with the goal of building a robot that can navigate streets and people to bring you that burrito you ordered. Arielle Pardes, senior writer at Wired, joins us to talk about Postmates robot rover called Serve, who looks a lot like Disney’s WALL-E,