America Trends Podcast
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EP 730 The Forgotten Approach to Farming in America: Can We Survive Without Its Return?
Industrial farming and ranching began about 80 years ago and now accounts for almost all agricultural output in America. We have allowed what once occupied nearly 40 percent of our population to be p
EP 729 Protections for Endangered Species As Critical Today as It was Fifty Years Ago
The Endangered Species Act of 1973 is recognized globally as the most important wildlife conservation law ever passed. Having turned 50 in 2023, there is no requirement to update it, but given change
EP 728 Can the Future of EV’s Hang on the Ability to Calm Range Anxiety?
The sale of electric vehicles(EVs) has slowed owing to the high cost of the current crop and the fears of some that they will be on a road trip and unable to fill up with electricity to continue on
EP 727 Shrinkflation and Other Supermarket Trends From the Supermarket Guru
Phil Lempert, aka The Supermarket Guru, knows his way around a supermarket and has been imparting great advice to consumers on trends in these important confines for more than 25 years as an astute an
EP 726 Workers Struggle Without Safety Nets in the Gig Economy
Its hard to look back at the period when Covid-19 was ravaging the health and well-being of the American public, let alone people through the world, and say that we miss some of its silver linings.
Ep 725 The Role of Survivors in Moving Past, While Learning From Catastrophes
Ninety seven year old, Robert Jay Lifton, a chronicler of the pain, suffering and anguish of of the catastrophes of the 20th and 21st centuriesNazi horrors, Hiroshima devastation, and the recent pand
EP 724 Artificial Intelligence is a Thing of the Present: What Can We Expect Going Forward?
Artificial intelligence(AI) took on a decidely greater importance with the commercial application of ChatGPT about a year ago. And though this is not the Stone Age of AI, its development is in its
EP 723 Is the End of the Road For Democracy Just Up Ahead in the USA?
According to one of the great practitioners of the art of political persuasion and campaign direction, it just may be. And our greatest danger may be our inability or willingness to recognize whats h
EP 722 The AR-15 and Its Devastating History
America, it is said, was a country born with a rifle in its hand, but none so devastating as the recent history of the AR-15. Call it a semi-automatic that can be converted into an automatic or selec
EP 721 Is a Rising Global Middle Class a Good Thing?
How could it be anything but? More people around the globe are being lifted out of poverty than ever before. In fact, half of the worlds population can count themselves in that number and the pace