EP 660 Should Public Employee Unions Be Outlawed?

EP 660 Should Public Employee Unions Be Outlawed?

Our guest has been warning America for decades that our government has become unaccountable tied up in overlapping jurisdictions and strangled by reams of rule books and regulation.  The ability to make decisions based on common sense and human innovation has been neutered.  In his new book, “Not Accountable: Rethinking the Constitutionality of Public Employee …

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EP 658 How Healthy Are State and Local Government Finances?

EP 658 How Healthy Are State and Local Government Finances?

  Faced with mounting Medicaid costs, powerful public employee unions and often underfunded pension and medical obligations, state and local governments can present fiscal dilemmas that, at times and as a last resort, the federal government gets dragged into.  It is hard to overstate the importance of making certain that the 50 states and Puerto …

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EP 656 Avoiding Complicity in Wrongdoing

EP 656 Avoiding Complicity in Wrongdoing

  Enron. Theranos. Purdue Pharma. Harvey Weinstein. The Nazis.  Awful behavior abounds.  The question is what do we do when we see it?  Do we become a whistleblower or an enabler?  Max Bazerman, a Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School and a behavorial ethicist, has written a new book entitled, “Complicit: How We …

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EP 655 Could America Have Won the Vietnam War?

EP 655 Could America Have Won the Vietnam War?

America lost the Vietnam War. End of sentence. The reasons most scholars give are many. Chief among them is the notion that the North Vietnamese and Vietnam Congress wanted to win more than we did and understand how to fight this asymmetrical war better than our conventional forces. Dr. Mark Moyar, a military historian at …

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EP 654 Tying the Knot in New Ways in America

EP 654 Tying the Knot in New Ways in America

Like all rites of passage in modern America, the wedding is undergoing a transformation. From who officiates to the vows that are taken to whether a church setting is involved, wedding bells ring in very personal ways for couples, some of whom have only been allowed to marry in the last few years. In fact …

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EP 652 Football: No Pain, No Game

EP 652 Football: No Pain, No Game

: This year’s Super Bowl was one of the most watched in history.  This follows the release of new research from the NFL showing a dramatic increase in concussions, even after lawsuits and new ‘safety protocols.’  Football used to be thought of as a game that kept orthopedists in business.  Today, it’s the domain of …

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EP 651 Highway Planning Leaves Many on the Side of the Road

EP 651 Highway Planning Leaves Many on the Side of the Road

  The car-dominant approach to US transportation planning has led to the construction of freeways and roadways that have torn apart and devalued communities, especially affecting Black and Brown individuals.  With a boatload of new cash going into infrastructure in America, thanks to the bipartisan Infrastructure bill passed by the last Congress and signed by …

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EP 650 Do Minority Cancer Patients Receive Different Care Than White Patients?

EP 650 Do Minority Cancer Patients Receive Different Care Than White Patients?

The answer to the question posed in the title to this podcast was the basis of a substantial research project undertaken by a team at the Yale Cancer Center, led by Dr. Sajid Khan,an associate professor of surgery and section chief of hepato-pancreato-biliary and mixed tumors at Yale School of Medicine. He is our guest …

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