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

America was born in rebellion over taxes. Remember the Boston Tea Party? And then hundreds of years later in the 2010s came the TEA Party, which stood for Taxed Enough Already. However, that has b

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 Sov

Just because humans stride atop the animal kingdom doesnt mean that what affects us doesnt affect other species on this earth or that the impact on them by things like climate breakdown doesnt tur

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 gotte

As a Connecticut resident, its 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

Richard Rothstein did America a great public service back in 2017. In his groundbreaking book, The Color of Law he laid out chapter and verse the complicity of American government, at all levels, i

The current approach to water management is failing to meet the demands of the growing human population and the severe challenges brought on by climate change. Our guest, David Sedlak, director of th

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Our guest today has a basic rule, based on research, about leaders of businesses and organizations. They should, first and foremost, be experts in the activity they lead and then acquire and assume t