The unipolar superpower moment America had after the fall of the Soviet Union has ended without many of us sensing a peace dividend. We are now returning to a period of great power competition, with our fiercest competitor being China. The question before us is how to contain their growing economic and military ambitions before …
Some say geography is destiny. While that may be too simplistic a way to look at the world, there is much you can tell about a nation’s fortunes based upon the neighborhood in which it resides. Take the United States, for example. We are isolated from potential aggressors, have unique positioning between …
There is much confusion as to how a new technology could have been developed so quickly in response to a novel coronavirus which came to be known as COVID-19. The truth is that the messenger RNA technology was in the works for decades and that the release of the sequence of the new …
In this podcast, we wonder aloud as to whether America has even to this day confronted the harsh truth that the country we know today was founded on the violent dispossession of Indigenous people. While we seem to be having a moment of reckoning as it relates to the issue of slavery and its …
In the past, there was a mythology built around the concept of the millionaire next door. It was the assuming couple who brought little attention to themselves. They didn’t drive flashy cars or exhibit a taste for bling. As two-income professionals, however, they had a nice home and learned the lessons of compound interest …
Description: It would seem that the pandemic has pushed some manufacturers to bring certain manufacturing processes home and while the percentage of movement stateside seems impressive given the movement away from our shores it’s still not enough, according to Harry Moser, president of the Reshoring Initiative. In order to insure that this is not a …
With cascading economic crises, political unrest and climate change, four billion youth are abandoning failing states and looking for livable situations everywhere. Given the climate and affordable housing, America’s Rust Belt will look attractive to many in the years to come. It will also bring people closer to the border of Canada, one of the …
In a reversal for the American approach to many endeavors, space exploration started out as a public venture through NASA, focused on national security and scientific dominance, to an area that sees most of the investment today coming from private space barons, like Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and Richard Branson, among others. Their motivations, individually …
How do you know the food you’re eating is safe to consume? That the labels on food tell you something meaningful about what you’re going to eat? That the food supply, which now includes many staples from overseas, has been inspected? Presumably, we have a powerful regulatory agency in the Food & Drug Administration(FDA) that …
America loves its cars but the romance may be cooling a bit as the increasingly urban society recognizes that the ‘internet of motion’ can provide them with many options for living the life previously available only to someone who had a car. Our guest, Tom Standage, the author of ‘A Brief History of Motion’ takes …