America Trends Podcast

America Trends Podcast


Latest Episodes

EP 912 How Billionaires Use Their Wealth to Keep You from Getting Ahead
October 29, 2025

It can be hard to explain how the actions of the top .01 percent have severe consequences for the rest of us, but in his book, Burned by Billionaires, Chuck Collins of the Institute for Policy Stu

EP 911 Former NIH Chief Describes Health Challenges in America
October 27, 2025

America has many challenges in the health industry. And while our guest, who came to America as an immigrant, wanted desperately to be part of what he considered to be the best medical system in th

EP 910 Wellness Industry Sells a Better You: Does It Deliver?
October 22, 2025

While the ideal of the American woman was to be skinny, now they need to be skinny and have a glow acquired through some combination of daily yoga, vegan makeup and mushroom coffee or tea. Gwyneth P

EP 909 Refrigeration Changed the World and Now Threatens It
October 20, 2025

Refrigeration is considered to be the most impactful invention in the history of food and drink. And while we focus on our personal refrigerators there is an entire cold chain of cold storage wareh

EP 908 Education Thought Leader Changes Her Mind on School Reform Efforts
October 15, 2025

Diane Ravitch, Ph.D, is a historian of education. For decades now, she has written, lectured and been interviewed about her views on a range of subjects related to education reform, including standa

EP 907 What Goes on in That Ambulance Whizzing By?
October 13, 2025

While we might think that ambulances are always involved in step on the gas exercisesget the paddles out, extricate from a car wreck or save from the effects of a heart attack, in truth there are ma

EP 906 West Point Law Professor Who Won Whistleblower Case Against the U.S. Military Files New Free Speech Lawsuit
October 08, 2025

Tim Bakken, a civilian professor, and the longest-serving law professor in West Points history, filed a lawsuit recently in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, challenging

EP 905 Can the Euro Survive More Crises?
October 06, 2025

The euro survived crises unimagined at its founding in 1992, giving European countries a common currency. First there was the financial meltdown of 2007-2009, the sovereign debt crisis of 2010-2012,

EP 904 Black Capitalists Amassing Wealth for the Common Good
October 01, 2025

To many, the term Black Capitalists tips an equation upside down. Black people were the labor force that built the infrastructure of American capitalism through the violent dictates of legalized sl

EP 903 Is Anyone Paying Attention to Children in Middle Childhood? We Should
September 29, 2025

Oh, the times they are a changing. While the focus in a slew of parenting books has been on infancy, adolescence and the teenage years, little has been focused on as it relates to ages 6-12, which i