Frustration with government is widespread, but neither party has a vision for making things work sensibly, according to our guest, Philip K. Howard, the chair of Common Good, a nonpartisan organization aimed at simplifying government procedures and practices and the author of his new book, “Saving Can-Do: How to Revive the Spirit of America.” Hidebound …
Rare earth minerals may be a misnomer. While they are critical minerals to our modern, digital life, they are not that rare. The problem is finding them in concentrated places where it is economically and environmentally responsible to mine them. This group of 17 metallic elements is crucial for modern technologies due to their magnetic …
I’m old enough to remember when ABC, NBC and CBS dominated our television viewing and our consumption of electronic news, and that the viewer had to be in front of the television set at an appointed time to receive the information. Today, the gatekeeper, who once decided when and what type of news content …
Where did “The Little House on the Prairie” go? It’s probably in foreclosure and will be sold to a private equity company to build nondescript condominiums. In its place has grown up a powerful factory farming industry which has no particular affinity for the welfare of the farm animals they sell, the workers they often …
How has the MAGA movement in Trump 2.0 been so resolute in meeting its objectives, as stated in Project 2025, despite the President’s own disavowal of the document? The ideas of the unitary executive, the politization of the federal bureaucracy and the dismantlement of federal programs, such as USAID, has been so stark in contrast …
The success of AI will make some fortunes. Displace others from their professional pursuits. Enhance productivity for corporations. Take strain off of many in the medical field. And more. While we know that the impact of the colliding technologies which enhance deep learning by machines will have a profound impact, in truth we do not …
The staff of America Trends Podcast would like to wish all are listeners A very Happy Thanksgiving Ira Chaleff, an expert in political followership reveals how political followers can make or ‘brake’ toxic leaders and what we can do-no matter our political sophistication or where we sit on the political spectrum-to support beneficial leaders …
Brody Mullins, and his brother, Luke, wrote the much heralded “The Wolves of K Street”, about how the last fifty years of corporate influence in Washington had shifted Washington D.C.’s center of power from elected officials to extravagantly paid operators, using a new bag of tricks, who bent public policy in favor of corporate interests. …
The doomsday clock is ticking…and who can we blame if the alarm is sounded and we find out it’s too late for the human species to recover? There’s a certain irony that all of the good things that science and technology have wrought, bring with them byproducts which are the key ingredients of our own …
And you think your family has some great achievements and enough demerits to warrant a book? Well, clearly, author and New Yorker writer, John Seabrook’s family, has all of that in triplicate and he spells it all out in the eminently readable “The Spinach King: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty.” His grandfather, …