EP 692 How Cable News Changed The Way Americans Get Their News

EP 692 How Cable News Changed The Way Americans Get Their News

  Broadcast television from the infancy of the medium well into the late 1960’s dominated the landscape and the news the average American saw.  Over the next three decades, thanks in good measure to Richard Nixon’s antipathy toward his portrayal on television, cable television was given the opportunity to grow and evolve into a powerful …

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EP 691 Student Test Scores Plunge to Lowest Levels Post Covid

EP 691 Student Test Scores Plunge to Lowest Levels Post Covid

Math and reading scores for America’s 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 Educational Progress, a federal test considered to be the nation’s report card. All of this in the wake of COVID-related disruptions which attenuated classroom learning …

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EP 690 New American Industrial Policy Focuses on a Cleaner Future

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, there’s been a sense that America has lost its edge in this sector.  More often than not, we hear that  America’s economy has become one built on a services and not hard goods.  Given …

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EP 689 A Crusader for Justice for the Poor in Our Criminal Justice System

EP 689 A Crusader for Justice for the Poor in Our Criminal Justice System

Bryan Stevenson(“Just Mercy”) considers him his mentor.  He’s 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 that pursuit, he has fought and won capital cases before the U.S. Supreme Court and was the recipient of the American …

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EP 688 Investors Torn Between Doing Good and Doing Well: The Saga of ESG Investing

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 Secretary General Kofi Annan wanted to encourage investors to be more mindful of how their investments might dovetail with the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals.  Thus, they encouraged investors …

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EP 686 To Dominate the World the U.S. First Had to Own Its Neighborhood

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 policy–the century following the Civil War in which the United States carved out a sphere of influence and became the only great power in modern history to achieve regional hegemony.  The ways in which America achieved complete supremacy in the Americas was at …

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