America Trends Podcast

America Trends Podcast


Latest Episodes

EP 632 Mental Health Care in the Spotlight as Need Grows
February 22, 2023

It was only a few years ago when mention of mental health concerns was done in whispered tones. Today, perhaps owing to the pandemic and its after effects, people openly share their anxiety, sleepless

EP 631 Do We Really Consider Frontline Workers as “Essential”?
February 20, 2023

We put up signs and cheered and serenaded from rooftops and labelled heroes, healthcare workers, teachers, grocery clerks. delivery drivers, food processors, and we gave them a new label essential

EP 630 Can You Trust China to Tell You How Well Its Economy is Really Doing?
February 14, 2023

When we read about Chinas miracle economy, in large part, it is a myth. Politics, Communist style, trumps economics and the growth numbers you see heralding its economic output are likely unrealiabl

EP 629 Free Speech First Amendment Right Is Not Absolute
February 13, 2023

The First Amendment and freedom of speech allow us to say what we want, but: we cant yell fire! in a crowded theater; we cant incite a riot; and since the nations founding, there have always been

EP 628 If You Lock Your Front Door, Your Home Is Better Protected Than Your Digital Life
February 08, 2023

When the internet was a shiny new object, it was understandable that we did not take security that seriously. But today it is home to most of the important information in our lives, including our fin

EP 627 Why Aren’t There More Employee- Owned Businesses in America?
February 06, 2023

In America we play hail to the founder and the brilliant chief executive who started a company from scratch, though we realize that whether its Elon Musk or Jeff Zuckerberg, they have their feet of c

EP 626 Meat Industry is a Raw Deal for Consumers and the Environment
January 31, 2023

When the Covid-19 pandemic first hit the United States in 2020, it affected nearly every aspect of our daily lives, hitting even the biggest businesses and corporations. The meat industry was no excep

EP 625 Fentanyl and Meth Pick Up Where the Opioid Crisis Left Off
January 30, 2023

Just as a modicum of justice is being meted out to those who ripped a hole through middle America in the opioid epidemic, the same man who awakened the nation to that crisis reveals in his new book th

EP 624 How Well Do You Understand the Israeli-Palestinian Situation?
January 25, 2023

While the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has been simmering, and at times boiling over, for the last 70 years, our understanding of the issues at stake are spotty. Its complicated and you must go back

EP 623 Is Putin on the Ropes?
January 23, 2023

Hubris seems to have gotten the best of Vladimir Putin. After the near disintegration of the once vaunted Red Army, Putin was determined to rebuild his military into a feared fighting machine. He made