America Trends Podcast America Trends
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- Society & Culture
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A podcast focusing on the social and political trends shaping our future.
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EP 743 Finding an Audience For Your Product or Service Requires New Skills in 2024
It seems as if everyone is screaming out for attention in this era given the ease with which people can find audiences for their meanderings, political views, loves and pet peeves. Just jump on line and wail away, with photos, videos and all manner of content. Given this new reality, and everyone living in their … Read More Read More
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EP 742 On the Lips of Republican and Democrats: No New Taxes
America was born in rebellion over taxes. Remember the Boston Tea Party? And then hundreds of years later in the 2010’s came the TEA Party, which stood for Taxed Enough Already. However, that has been the mantra of the Republican Party for the last 50 years beginning with Proposition 13 in California, a property tax … Read More Read More
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EP 741 Are We Now in the Midst of a Second Cold War?
America has more than a rooting interest in wars taking place in places like Ukraine, Gaza and elsewhere around the globe. If we go back to the fall of the Iron Curtain and the dissolution of the Soviet Union in the late 1980’s, we were led to believe it was the ‘end of history’ and … Read More Read More
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EP 740 Remember: Animals Can’t Turn on Their Air Conditioners
Just because humans stride atop the animal kingdom doesn’t mean that what affects us doesn’t affect other species on this earth or that the impact on them by things like climate breakdown doesn’t turn around and affect our lives. Naturalist Adam Welz tries and succeeds in driving this point home in his book, “The End … Read More Read More
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EP 739 Weight Loss Drugs Are All the Rage
When a gorgeous Poli theater was restored in my hometown about a decade ago, one of the changes that had to occur was making the seats larger, because since the early 20th century Americans have gotten heftier. Along with this collective weight gain, thanks to processed foods and more sedentary work lives, has come an … Read More Read More
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EP 738 America’s Nuclear Sub Fleet: Our ‘Silent’ Military Advantage
As a Connecticut resident, it’s hard not to be aware of the storied history of Hiram Rickover, the “Father of the Nuclear Navy” and the development and commissioning of the first nuclear submarine in in 1952 at the Groton, Connecticut. Now with a fleet of over 220 boats, or ships as they came to be … Read More Read More
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