America Trends Podcast
Latest Episodes
EP 694 Will You Be Driving an I Phone in the Future?
The future of car design is no longer in the hands of car companies as technology has become the biggest driver behind new car models. Major trends in cars clearly point to a future when the buzzword
EP 693 Busting Myths About Trigger Happy America
Over 40,000 Americans die each year due to gun violence. And while a person pulls the trigger, there is no doubt that the weapon, guns of all sort, make the effect and lethality of violent exchanges
EP 692 How Cable News Changed The Way Americans Get Their News
Broadcast television from the infancy of the medium well into the late 1960s dominated the landscape and the news the average American saw. Over the next three decades, thanks in good measure to R
EP 691 Student Test Scores Plunge to Lowest Levels Post Covid
Math and reading scores for Americas 13-year-olds dropped to their lowest levels in decades, with math proficiency sinking by the largest margin ever recorded, according to the National Assessment of
EP 690 New American Industrial Policy Focuses on a Cleaner Future
Manufacturing has been considered the backbone of the U.S. economy since the Industrial Revolution, yet with recent trade policies encouraging offshoring, theres been a sense that America has lost it
EP 689 A Crusader for Justice for the Poor in Our Criminal Justice System
Bryan Stevenson(Just Mercy) considers him his mentor. Hes been the subject of books and a film for his work to correct the injustices that race and poverty play in our criminal justice system. In
EP 688 Investors Torn Between Doing Good and Doing Well: The Saga of ESG Investing
ESG investment products have environmental, social and governance considerations at their root. ESG investing grew out of the United Nations Principles for Responsible Investing. A former UN Secret
EP 687 Is America Fighting a Half-Hearted War on Poverty?
The richest nation in the history of the world can do better. Lets be honest. Whether you live in a pocket of destitution, or just drive by it, dont you get the sense that something is wrong if mi
EP 686 To Dominate the World the U.S. First Had to Own Its Neighborhood
According to our guest, there is a lost chapter of American foreign policythe century following the Civil War in which the United States carved out a sphere of influence and became the only great pow
EP 685 US Supreme Court Does Most of its Work in the ‘Shadows’
Every October we wait to see what cases the US Supreme Court will be taking on in the coming session. And every June we wait to see how they rendered their judgments. On todays podcast, we tell you