America Trends Podcast

America Trends Podcast


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EP 924 News Media Rocked by Technological and Political Pressures
December 10, 2025

Im old enough to remember when ABC, NBC and CBS dominated our television viewing and our consumption of electronic news, and that the viewer had to be in front of the television set at an appointed

EP 923 Industrial Farming Killed the Idyllic Notion of the Little Red Barn
December 08, 2025

Where did The Little House on the Prairie go? Its probably in foreclosure and will be sold to a private equity company to build nondescript condominiums. In its place has grown up a powerful fac

EP 922 The Intellectual Framers on the Furious Right
December 03, 2025

How has the MAGA movement in Trump 2.0 been so resolute in meeting its objectives, as stated in Project 2025, despite the Presidents own disavowal of the document? The ideas of the unitary executiv

EP 921 Artificial Intelligence Will Have Real Impact on People
December 01, 2025

The success of AI will make some fortunes. Displace others from their professional pursuits. Enhance productivity for corporations. Take strain off of many in the medical field. And more. While

EP 920 When Followers Take the Lead
November 26, 2025

The staff of America Trends Podcast would like to wish all are listeners A very Happy Thanksgiving Ira Chaleff, an expert in political followership reveals how political followers can make or br

EP 919 Campaign Funding Keeps Changing the Political Landscape
November 24, 2025

Brody Mullins, and his brother, Luke, wrote the much heralded The Wolves of K Street, about how the last fifty years of corporate influence in Washington had shifted Washington D.C.s center of pow

EP 918 Can Humans Survive the Scientific Challenges of Our Own Making?
November 19, 2025

The doomsday clock is tickingand who can we blame if the alarm is sounded and we find out its too late for the human species to recover? Theres a certain irony that all of the good things that sci

EP 917 The Frozen Vegetable Family that Changed the Way We Eat
November 17, 2025

And you think your family has some great achievements and enough demerits to warrant a book? Well, clearly, author and New Yorker writer, John Seabrooks family, has all of that in triplicate and he

EP 916 What Would America Do Without Foreign Born Doctors? We May Find Out
November 12, 2025

For more than sixty years, the United States has trained fewer physicians than it needs. It is expensive and time-consuming to educate a new doctor, and much more expedient to bring immigrant docto

EP 915 Has Cryptocurrency Really Arrived as an Investment Option?
November 10, 2025

Bitcoin had been a bit player as people designed their financial portfolios. Investors would ask is this a scam and am I chasing the latest shiny object? But today it seems as if cryptocurrency an