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EP 760 America’s Two Major Parties: Hollowed Out and Underperforming
While our parties may only from time to time have lived up to the mission of truly organizing our political discourse and developing serious nuts and bolts efforts toward major transformations that be
EP 759 Warning: The Media You Consume May Be Hazardous to Your Understanding of What’s Really Going On
The Rascals had a song out years back called How Can I Be Sure? And while those lyrics pertained to love, the same question could, and should, be posed today about the media content you are devouri
EP 758 America’s Banking System More Fragile Than We Know
To those of us who stopped thinking about the inherent risks in our banking system after the meltdown of 2007-2009, exemplified by the collapse of Lehman Brothers, and assumed that Dodd-Frank legislat
EP 757 A Leader in the Feminist Movement Assesses Its Progress and Challenges in 2024
Our guest is a feminist trailblazer who had an inside look at the feminist movement as it progressed from the 1960s on. Her insights and odes to those who made it possible for women to have virtual i
EP 756 Remarkable Women Finally Getting Their Due Recognition
Each of us honors remarkable women in our own way. Often its when we think about what our mothers contributed to our growth and development. In other cases, its a teacher or a caregiver. Well the
EP 755 Do You Really Want to Try Living in an Autocracy?
Sure democracy is messy and lots of people feel its not working as well as it once did. But all of us born here have never lived under the alternative. Be careful what you wish for if you are takin
EP 754 Is MAGA Really About America First?
Viktor Orban? Vladimir Putin? Turkeys strongman Erdogan? Is that the traditional leader America wants to hold up as an exemplar for a nation built on universal principles of life, liberty and the
EP 753 College is Actually a Great Equalizer: We’ll Explain
There is a fact that is so surprising that it borders on being unbelievable. Research indicates that students from disadvantaged and advantaged class backgrounds who graduate from the same college go
EP 752 Baby Boomers to Zennials: Largest Generational Transfer of Wealth in History is Just Ahead
In the next ten years, in the United States alone, 61 trillion dollars will transfer from baby boomers to the younger generations. With that wealth comes the power to determine the structure of our so
EP 751 Anti-Semitism: It Can(and is)Happening Here
Jews will not replace us was the cry from far-right extremists a few years back in Charlottesville, Virginia and, in response to counter protests, then President Donald Trump said that there were go