https://www.aei.org/profile/daniel-a-cox/ Presidential races are covered more like a horse race than a contest of ideas. What impact does that have both on crowding out more important news about the candidates, like positions on issues, and on how we feel about the race depending on how our preferred candidate is doing? Then there’s the growing concern …
https://www.amazon.com/Kill-Switch-Crippling-American-Democracy/dp/1631497774 While the title to this episode is not original, it does state something that has become more real year in and year out. The U.S. Senate’s deliberative nature has become sclerotic and impediments to popular legislation never see the light of day. Senator Mitch McConnell, a master of Senate rules, in the Trump years …
https://progressivepolicy.org/people/michael-mandel/ The pandemic has locked us in our homes and unlocked the delivery economy. Many times a day we can look out our windows and see delivery trucks stopping to deliver all manner of goods from groceries to toiletries, from a cooked meal to a new pair of jeans. Now that we are growing accustomed …
https://www.qu.edu/faculty-and-staff/frederick-scholl/ You must have read about the recent cyberattack. Which one you ask? Take your pick. There seems to be a new one daily. It could be your hospital system, your bank or one level or another of your government. What’s amazing is how many ways hackers have of slipping through the digital back door …
https://sustainabletransport.ca/portfolio/about-us/ Governor Gavin Newsom recently signed an executive order to end the sale of new gas-burning cars by 2035. That is a big deal because California’s impact on climate matters set the standard for 14 others states that follow their lead and automakers who will adapt to the market established by America’s country within a …
https://westauthors.com/ After the debacle of the Vietnam War, astute observers of our failed attempt at counterinsurgency said let us not do this again. Yet, we went into Afghanistan following the attack on 9-11-2001 and have found ourselves in a similar quagmire ever since. There was a more strategic approach to rooting out Al Qaeda, but …
https://www.stthomas.edu/law/facultystaff/a-z-index/mark-osler.html In the finals days of the Trump Administration, the President attended primarily to one piece of business, the handing out of pardons. We were told that Donald Trump liked this power because it was virtually absolute. Others felt he he used it to keep authorities away from his front door when he became Citizen …
https://www.amazon.com/White-Market-Drugs-History-Addiction/dp/022673188X What is the difference between pharmaceuticals and drugs? Often it’s the type of person selling one or the other and the type of person consuming the product. Patients who have become addicted to that which their doctor has prescribed generally have been viewed as innocent victims, while those who develop a similar habit outside …
http://www.suketumehta.com/ America tells itself a lot of stories about its ethos that turn out to be misleading, or worse yet false, when put to true historical scrutiny. Waves of immigrants have made their way here thinking that their lot would be so much better when they reach our shores, only to find many roadblocks …
https://shaylynromneygarrett.com/ Here’s some history to draw you into this podcast. America was at the heights of solidarity and common purposes for over half a century beginning in the early 1900’s through the 1960’s and then we began to split apart as a society, as we had in the late 19th century. America’s past was divided …