Our guest likes to compare and contrast this moment in history with the Gilded Age of the Industrial Revolution, when robber barons pillaged the economic landscape with impunity. At some point when the spoils all went to the top, when labor was exploited and the excesses became too apparent to all, the government stopped being …
I don’t know how many trips you take in a year, but it’s difficult for me to imagine having the time, energy or resources to travel to EVERY country in the world, even over a half century of excursions. Our guest has done just that. Boris Kester, author of “The Long Road to Cullaville:Stories From …
It’s hard to have a conversation with a friend or colleague where the issue of sleep doesn’t come up. In most cases, you’ll hear people say there’s is not restful and they are trying a range of things, from a new mattress to meditation or white noise to address it. Some may describe a …
The words we hear from Israeli government and military officials is that the end game is to rid Gaza of Hamas, the terrorist group that runs it and committed unspeakable atrocities against Israeli citizens on October 7. Yet, if history is a guide, the overwhelming military response now being visited upon Hamas, and civilians who …
Fake on-line reviews permeate every sector of commerce, from the purchase of hard goods to the doctor you to choose, to the restaurant you try, to the plumber who has five stars. Does he really? It’s a complex web of lies that has developed in this vital space for e-commerce. Finally, the federal government, under …
Forty countries around the world had a majority of their populations living in cities in 1960, whereas today that figure is more than one hundred. And that trajectory is projected to continue in dramatic fashion throughout the century, in both developed and developing nations. For the first time in human history half of humanity …
There’s a commercial on television with a famous chef telling us that the most important tool he uses in his kitchen is his brain. And that’s the same organ needed to deal with chronic pain according to our guest, Dr. Afton Hassett, an associate professor and Director of Pain and Opioid Research at the University …
Our guest, by her own admission, is now a West Coast liberal, a professor no less at USC in public policy, and yet she has great appreciation for the sturdiness and values of Americans in the nation’s heartland. Having grown up in Danville, Pennsylvania, she is no stranger to the people she interviewed for her …
Anyone who’s paying attention has got to ask him or herself whether America can do the hard work of retaining a vibrant democratic system. It requires constant tending and adapting by its citizens. We must maintain a level of commitment to making the laws fair, bringing all citizens into the process, providing a foundational understanding …
Francis Rooney, who was the U.S. Ambassador to the Holy See from 2005 to 2008 and later a U.S. Congressman, gives us his unique perspective on domestic politics and international affairs at a period in our history with together the combination is making the American public very uneasy about what may lie ahead.