America Trends Podcast

America Trends Podcast


Latest Episodes

EP 773 From Inflation to the Private Equity Bubble: Where is the Economy Headed?
July 03, 2024

Many money matters are trending in our economy. Some, like softening, but stubborn, inflation still tops the list of what people sense about these economic times. And while recent price reductions a

EP 772 Is Liberalism a Way of Life?
July 01, 2024

Our guest, Alexandre Lefebvre, author of Liberalism as a Way of Life, poses a provocative questionwhere do our values and beliefs come from in a time when fewer of us claim to belong to a specific

EP 771 Just Because We’re Not Talking About It Doesn’t Mean the Opioid Crisis Has Gone Away
June 26, 2024

The opioid crisis doesnt get the headlines it once did, but in no way should that fact be interpreted as suggesting its gone away. By all accounts it remains stubbornly destructive and shocking in

EP 770 How Can We Work to Live an Antiracist Life
June 24, 2024

Biases, prejudices and preconceptions are part of living. Sometimes its because of the way we were raised, the messages we receive through various sources and the politics of this moment, as the GOP

EP 768 Climate Science and Denial Go Back a Long Way PART 1
June 17, 2024

Climate change(aka global warming)and warming denial human-engineered and accelerating at a rapid cliphave been on display in America for at least 4 decades, dating back to when then Vice President

EP 767 Often Misunderstood Rural America
June 12, 2024

Many books have been written in the recent period about rural America. The beginning of this literary push to better understand the opportunities, problems and malignancies of what one author coined

EP 766 The(Present) and Future of War is in Space
June 10, 2024

His day job involves commenting on whats happening in real time around the globe but David Ignatius, the highly respected foreign affairs columnist of the Washington Post, also uses his journalistic

EP 765 Better Solutions Available for Men with Enlarged Prostates
June 05, 2024

One of the fastest growing demographic cohorts in America is men over the age of 60. Growing with this group, in a majority of instances, is their prostate. That gland gets much attention primarily

EP 764 Are We Looking for Happiness in the Wrong Places?
June 02, 2024

The pursuit of happiness is a birthright for those of us who are American citizens. Its right there in the Declaration of Independence, which itself seems rather odd. We are not guaranteed that stat