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. 1H AGO

    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

  2. 5D AGO

    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

  3. 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

  4. MAR 19

    EP 846 Policing in America: Is the Treatment of White Supremacists Equal to the Threat?

    Back in 2021, then FBI Director, Christopher Wray, a Trump appointee, said that white supremacy is a “persistent, evolving threat” and the “biggest chunk” of racially motivated violent extremism in the U.S. To Mike German who served sixteen years as an FBI special agent  and the author of “Policing White Supremacy: The Enemy Within”, that’s … Read More Read More

    35 min

  5. MAR 17

    EP 845 We Live in the Age of Choice

    Choice dominates every sphere of modern life, almost to a point where it becomes overwhelming.  Which type of jelly should I buy?  Which insurance policy is right?  What should I watch on my 5 streaming services?  And yet in the political realm often we have two choices and our understanding of what they offer may … Read More Read More

    34 min

  6. MAR 12

    EP 844 We’ve Come a Long Way, Baby–Or Have We?

    “We the People” is the opening salvo of the Constitution.  However, the definition of the people was very limited at the time.  And women, among others, were not part of the equation.  The Constitution was aspirational and later amended to include the previously excluded and while women fought, alongside many men, to take their rightful … Read More Read More

    45 min

  7. MAR 10

    EP 843 Have We Turned a Corner on Military Recruitment?

    The last time we discussed this topic a few years back with our guest, the military, at least most branches, was struggling to meet its recruitment targets.  And for an all-volunteer force deployed around the globe, that is not a good thing.  The picture was a bit better in 2024, but the seismic changes at … Read More Read More

    36 min

  8. MAR 5

    EP 842 America Is in Decline but Competitors are Declining, Too–and Faster

    Robert Kaplan’s erudite take on the world’s geopolitical situation can be summed up in the manner described in our headline, but there is so much more nuance in his book “Waste Land: A World in Permanent Crisis” that you must read it for yourself to grasp the complexities of our fast-changing world in these illegible … Read More Read More

    29 min

  9. MAR 3

    EP 841 Ukraine Fights for Its Survival: Does America Stand with Them?

    Donald Trump said he would end Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine on day one of his second Administration.  While that date has come and gone, he is making moves to find a resolution to the conflict, but is it a continuation of the U.S.-led NATO effort on the side of Ukraine or has America … Read More Read More

    35 min

  10. FEB 26

    EP 840 Ungoverning: A New Term and a New Approach to Dismantling Government

    When Professor Nancy Rosenblum joined us months back, she and Russell Muirhead had written a book called “Ungoverning” The Attack on the Administrative State and the Politics of Chaos.”  Their case study was the first Trump Administration.  And while every modern state is an administrative state, the bureaucracy at all levels of government has … Read More Read More

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