The future of car design is no longer in the hands of car companies as technology has become the biggest driver behind new car models. Major trends in cars clearly point to a future when the buzzwords will be electric, somewhat autonomous, connected, safe and sleek. And they may look nothing like they do today. …
Over 40,000 Americans die each year due to gun violence. And while a person pulls the trigger, there is no doubt that the weapon, guns of all sort, make the effect and lethality of violent exchanges so much more costly. That’s one of the many myths that Dr. Thomas Gabor and Fred Guttenberg dispel in …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
The richest nation in the history of the world can do better. Let’s be honest. Whether you live in a pocket of destitution, or just drive by it, don’t you get the sense that something is wrong if millions of people, urban and rural, live in the squalor that you can see, even just passing …
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 …
Every October we wait to see what cases the US Supreme Court will be taking on in the coming session. And every June we wait to see how they rendered their judgments. On today’s podcast, we tell you ‘the rest of the story.’ You see almost 99 percent of the court’s decisions take place on …