EP 647 Modern Ireland Presents a Whole New Face to the World

EP 647 Modern Ireland Presents a Whole New Face to the World

Who better to explain the remarkable changes that have taken place in Ireland over the last sixty years than one of its greatest modern writers, Fintan O’Toole, author of “We Don’t Know Ourselves: A Personal History of Modern Ireland?”  Designated one of the New York Times Book Review’s Top Ten Books of 2022 is now …

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EP 646 Will ChatGPT Wipe Out White Collar Jobs?

EP 646 Will ChatGPT Wipe Out White Collar Jobs?

If there is a technology story trending in America today it’s the presumed impact of ChatGPT on all manner of writing and communicating in our business lives, academic careers and every day interactions. While this description has been written by a real human being it could have been written by this enhanced form of artificial …

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EP 645 Tech Workers Benefits(And Jobs)Reset in the Changing American Landscape

EP 645 Tech Workers Benefits(And Jobs)Reset in the Changing American Landscape

From my curiosity generated by the headline of an op-ed piece in the New York Times titled “The Boss Is Back in Silicon Valley” came the following wide ranging conversation with Carol Schultz, the founder and CEO of Vertical Elevation and author of “Powered By People: How Talent-Centric Organizations Master Recruitment, Retention, and Revenue(and How …

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EP 644 Children of the State: Inside the Juvenile Justice System in America

EP 644 Children of the State: Inside the Juvenile Justice System in America

Few of us can imagine the difficult life circumstances that bring teenage children into a detention facility, which to them is simply another word for a jail.  Jeff Hobbs, an author who immersed himself in different kinds of facilities to capture first hand accounts of the experience from these children describes in vivid, and painful, …

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EP 643 Wildlife Management in America Sees Federal Government and States in Conflict

EP 643 Wildlife Management in America Sees Federal Government and States in Conflict

The Constitution reserves many responsibilities to states and enumerates clearly those that the federal government can undertake.  Wildlife management was one of those state focused responsibilities until the earliest days of the 20th century and then with the Lacey Act and Migratory Bird Treaty Act, responsibilities began to be shared or taken over by the …

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EP 642 Can Tech Creators Really Control the Content on Their Platforms?

EP 642 Can Tech Creators Really Control the Content on Their Platforms?

Our guest, David Auerbach has coined the term that is the title of his book, “Meganets”. The scope of various social networks and interactive platforms has grown to such a proportion because of the sophistication of the technology and the abundant use by individuals that it is creating an autonomous digital force, as uncontrollable as …

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EP 641 Does Austerity Really Make Economic Sense?

EP 641 Does Austerity Really Make Economic Sense?

For more than a century the go to move of governments facing a financial crisis has been the implementation of austerity policies, like cutting wages, decreasing spending on social programs and public benefits as the answer to restoring fiscal health. We’re in such a period now in America where we are pursuing monetary belt tightening …

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EP 640 Who Really Writes Our Laws: Congress or Executive Agencies?

EP 640 Who Really Writes Our Laws: Congress or Executive Agencies?

The Constitution clearly states that Congress shall write our laws. But as the federal government grew larger and more complex, executive branch agencies were given more authority to bring greater definition to Congressional intent because of their expertise in a particular area. Even more power has shifted to those agencies as Congress fails to keep …

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EP 639 US and Russia Waging New Battle for the Arctic

EP 639 US and Russia Waging New Battle for the Arctic

With a hot war raging in Ukraine, it is easy to lose sight of a zone of growing tension in the cold ice terrain of the Arctic. American military planners have taken notice of the growing Russian military presence building land bases and launching a string of provocative aerial missions. America is playing catch-up in …

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EP 638 Data Trafficking is the New Superpower Battleground

EP 638 Data Trafficking is the New Superpower Battleground

Tik Tok. Huawei. Tencent. Giant Chinese companies have become controversial players in the United States as we try to determine their motives and whether they are just another arm of the Chinese government as they vacuum up incredible amounts of data on American citizens. Data which we willingly provide as we ignore terms of service …

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