https://jimguilkey.com/book/ At the end of 2019 and the early part of 2020, the record number of CEO’s of major companies in America leaving their posts clearly represented a trend. In fact, one business journal described it as a ‘great exodus’ of newsworthy proportions. Did they know something we didn’t know about what was ahead? Or …
https://www.amazon.com/Unrigged-Americans-Battling-Back-Democracy/dp/1631495755 By any measure, politicians throughout our history have played fast and loose with the electoral process, trying to make it easier for some and harder for others to vote. It took the 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments to the Constitution to unrig practices put in place to deny the vote to African Americans. Yet, …
https://www.amazon.com/We-Resistance-Documenting-History-Nonviolent/dp/0872867560 In the recent period, we have seen people taking to the streets in large numbers to protest police brutality and racial injustice. As a nation born in rebellion against unjust authority, and having codified the right to same in our First Amendment, there is a long history of such protest. Some of it is …
https://www.amazon.com/Divided-States-America-Federalism-Doesnt/dp/0691182272 Some might argue that James Madison was one of the most original thinkers among the founders. From his fertile mind came concepts like separation of powers, the encouragement of a marketplace of religious ideas and federalism. And while many focus on the contentious relationship of the executive and legislative branches of our government as …
https://www.amazon.com/Dont-Label-Me-Incredible-Conversation/dp/1250157986 Get ready to hear something that strays from convention in so many ways. There’s a reason that Irshad Manji was the recipient of Oprah Winfrey’s first Chutzpah Award for boldness. She guides us in how to do the right thing in the face of fear and to retain our principles in the face of …
https://www.windycitynanny.com/ A demographer we recently did a podcast with reminded us that every child born from 1985 on is more valuable than those born before, due to the declining birth rate in America. When we stare into the eyes of a beautiful newborn baby in America, we are gazing upon nothing less than our future …
https://www.amazon.com/Short-History-Presidential-Election-Crises/dp/087286829X If history is a guide, the answer is no. Even as far back as 1796, and a number of very close elections subsequently, we have seen where the perspicacious Founders of our country left us without a fruitful mechanism for deciding disputed presidential elections. Just take the case of the 2000 election, with a …
https://www.bluewaterpropertiesofcostarica.com/agent/becky-clower/ Well, let me count the reasons: the sun, the beaches, the spirit of the people, the gentle breezes, the cost and the environment. In many ways, it seems a place set apart from many of its neighbors and clearly from those of us in North America. Maybe it’s, in part, because of the great …
https://thejusticecollaborative.com/team/brooks-emanuel/ You didn’t know we still had one? Without court injunctions delaying it, the Trump Department of Justice has been interested in reviving the practice using lethal injection. In fact, President Trump has talked about extending its use to drug dealers in certain cases. With about 70 people on death row in America for federal …
https://www.amazon.com/Paladin-Spy-Novel-David-Ignatius/dp/0393254178 David Ignatius borrows from the real world of international affairs to inform his wonderful spy novels and his fictional imaginings have even been used to train those in the espionage field. We are honored to close out our week of podcasts on international relations with him as we circle the globe exploring America’s changing …