America Trends Podcast

America Trends
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America Trends Podcast

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

  1. 3D AGO

    EP 856 Is Private Equity Killing Hospitals–And Other Businesses?

    As a society we must ask ourselves what is the bottom- line consideration when it comes to health care?  Is it the numbers on a spreadsheet, the self-aggrandizement of the institution’s owners or the well- being of the patient?  The response should be obvious.  Yet, the insidious model of private equity, now the owner of … Read More Read More

    40 min

  2. 4D AGO

    EP 855 Lighthouse Parenting Shows Us the Way to Maintain Lifelong Connection with Our Children

    The metaphor of a lighthouse–steady, reliable and guiding without being overbearing– is the framework to provide a balanced alternative to extreme parenting trends.  If applied consistently it equips families to raise emotionally healthy children who thrive academically, build resilience and maintain lifelong connections with their parents. A leading proponent of this approach, Dr. Kenneth Ginsburg … Read More Read More

    43 min

  3. APR 16

    EP 854 Nation’s Report Card Shows America is Failing Its Next Generation

    If you read the latest edition of the National Assessment of Educational Progress, also known as “The Nation’s Report Card”, things are not going well in our nation’s public schools.  Clearly, the long tail effects of the COVID pandemic are at play here. One respected educational researcher, Dan Goldhaber, did not want to sugarcoat the … Read More Read More

    40 min

  4. APR 14

    EP 853 Can Racism Be Scientifically Proven?

    While there are many in America who believe that racism is a thing of the past and no longer an issue, those beliefs are not grounded in science with empirical proof to back them up.  You might say is this provable objectively?  Keon West, PhD., a social psychologist at the University of London, sets out … Read More Read More

    43 min

  5. APR 9

    EP 852 We Have Survived Presidents with Autocratic Ambitions Before

    Imagine an American president who imprisoned critics, spread a culture of white supremacy, and tried to upend the rule of law so that he could commit crimes with impunity.  You may think this narrative speaks only to the present, but in fact history shows that American presidents have often pushed the boundaries established for them … Read More Read More

    38 min

  6. APR 7

    EP 851 Will Social Security Survive Its Fiscal and Political Challenges?

    Social Security and its future have been in the news recently as the DOGE guys have been looking at its innards. Yet, it’s not called the third rail of American politics for nothing.  Over 70 million Americans rely on it for much, if not all, of their retirement income. Like Medicare, Social Security can be … Read More Read More

    35 min

  7. APR 2

    EP 850 Black Literacy in the South a Powerful Tool for Progress and Repression

    The pen is mightier than the sword and the ability to read opens up an entirely new world to someone who lacked that ability before.  That’s why the issue of Black literacy in the South has such an important history.  For Black citizens, it was a weapon of empowerment and rebellion, while for whites, it … Read More Read More

    37 min

  8. MAR 31

    EP 849 What Has Donald Trump Done to the Biden Economy?

    Years of low unemployment, record stock market gains and a slowing of the rate of inflation under President Jow Biden have given way to an economic muddle in the present under Donald Trump.  Are we putting tariffs on allies or are we not? How long can this uncertainty go on without roiling markets and causing … Read More Read More

    43 min

  9. MAR 26

    EP 848 Not Again! U.S. Veterans Exposed to Toxins Having to Fight for Just Compensation

    Whether it was Agent Orange in the Vietnam era, burn pits in Iraq, contaminated water at many bases across the country or 9-11 first responders, why do we, as a nation, make it so hard for these heroes to collect just compensation when we have subjected veterans and first responders to risks unimaginable to … Read More Read More

    37 min

  10. MAR 24

    EP 847 The Red Scare to This Moment in U.S. History

    The Red Scare, after World War II, gave birth to the New Right in America and what we see today in the second Administration of Donald Trump.  That, according to historian and New York Times editor, Clay Risen, the author of “Red Scare: Blacklists, McCarthyism and the Making of Modern America.”  In his account of … Read More Read More

    37 min
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