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EP 632 Mental Health Care in the Spotlight as Need Grows
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”?
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?
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
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
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?
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
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
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?
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?
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