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America Trends Podcast Podcast

A podcast focusing on the social and political trends shaping our future.

  1. 15 HR AGO

    EP 395 Hunting the Highway Serial Killers

    The profession of long haul trucking is vital to our nation’s commerce.  As a career choice, many of us might think of it as one we would never pick because it can be lonely and unsettling as to a normal home life.  Some choose it because they like the open road and others because they … Read More Read More

    37 min

  2. 5 DAYS AGO

    EP 794 Voting Rights Limits May Be the Supreme Court’s Most Enduring Legacy

    There is a disturbing history of a fifty-year plan to hijack voting rights in America.  Despite Chief Justice John Roberts’ reputation as an institutionalist trying to steer the Supreme Court in a measured fashion, our guest says he’s not a deliberate incrementalist but rather a patient bulldozer.  In his first fourteen years as the nation’s … Read More Read More

    43 min

  3. 16 SEPT

    EP 793 The Nation’s 9-1-1 Emergency System Facing Its Own Emergency

    Recently, in Massachusetts, its government leaders discovered that the statewide 9-1-1 emergency system was down.  A scramble ensued to handle the crisis.  About 7 million people went for almost two hours with no 91-1 service.  Unfortunately, such crashes have become more commonplace over the recent years as long needed upgrades to the system have been … Read More Read More

    34 min

  4. 11 SEPT

    EP 792 Dying at Home is Trending in America

    The process of dying in America has changed dramatically over the last twenty years.  The process was often hidden away from family in a hospital setting.  Today more than half of deaths are at home surrounded by loved ones.  Along with this new American approach comes a range of responsibilities and stresses which can either … Read More Read More

    33 min

  5. 9 SEPT

    EP 791 Smartphone Bans Gaining Traction in Classrooms Across the Country

    ‘It’s a part of me’ said one student when asked about a possible ban on smartphones in her classroom.  While we can all come up with reasons that smartphone use is a distraction and worse in the classroom, who cannot sympathize with that student’s feeling? Given the amount of time we spend on these devices, … Read More Read More

    38 min

  6. 4 SEPT

    EP 790 Why are Americans Having Fewer Babies? Should We Care?

    Among demographers and others, even marketers, there are serious conversations going on about the consequences of plummeting birth rates.  In the way that we often discuss retirement–do you have enough money to live on the rest of your life–we ignore the psychological, as well as economic,l effects of couples having fewer children and our society … Read More Read More

    41 min

  7. 2 SEPT

    EP 789 Black Women in America Pursue Higher Education and Respect in Record Numbers

    With Kamala Harris as the Democratic nominee for President, we have come to know more about the sororities which have become family for Black women in Historically Black colleges. Though bias and biology have made them members of two marginalized groups since the nation’s founding, Black women nonetheless have been enrolling in college at rates … Read More Read More

    39 min

  8. 29 AUG

    EP 788 Did The Beatles Achieve Fame Because They Were Better Than Everyone Else?

    Is it as easy as just being good at music, painting, writing or other creative pursuits and the world will naturally beat a path to your door?  Not really.  I asked our guest how many Taylor Swifts wannabees, with talent, may be walking around today without a recording contract a realistic path to fame whose … Read More Read More

    37 min

  9. 26 AUG

    EP 787 Inner-City Gun Violence: Are We Serious About Stopping It?

    When the discussion turns to inner-city gun violence, many people throw up their hands in despair that it’s just part of the fabric of American life.  Can that be true?  As long as we choose not to address the root causes of the problem and find innovative approaches to it, I fear it will continue, … Read More Read More

    34 min

  10. 21 AUG

    EP 786 Which Economic Direction will Sustain America’s Strong Economy?

    There is a serious economic debate going on in America that hasn’t truly permeated the presidential campaign, but underlies the economic future of the country.  These debates are happening among members of the U.S. Senate Joint Economic Committee as to whether the path forward will be better by maintaining the Biden approach of an industrial … Read More Read More

    43 min
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