https://www.amazon.com/Presidents-Populism-Crisis-Democracy-William/dp/022676317X American government is broken and has been so for a long time. In some periods of history we muddle through and use our natural advantages, like remote location from adversaries, to give us time to figure things out. At other points, like after The Great Depression, we needed a whole new toolkit of government …
https://www.amazon.com/Carte-Blanche-Erosion-Medical-Consent/dp/1734420723 The topic we are bringing you on this podcast startled me. My concept was that we, the medical consumer, gain protections year after year. In fact, Harriet Washington’s chilling expose, ‘Carte Blanche: The Erosion of Medical Consent’, reveals just the opposite. It is becoming harder to avoid being part of risky medical research as …
https://www.adamenders.com/ Much of the attention drawn to QAnon of late has common from the mainstream media and not the dark corners of the internet. The election of an adherent to Congress and a rebuke of her utterances has also shone light on a movement with some very unusual beliefs and indeterminate motives and goals. According …
https://www.amazon.com/Preventing-Next-Pandemic-Diplomacy-Anti-science/dp/1421440385 It is a head scratcher to many of us that the anti-vaccination movement has taken hold in the way that it has in the 21st century given the unassailable fact that vaccines have saved hundreds of millions of lives. The achievements are astounding. Vaccines have eradicated small pox, virtually eliminated polio, brought measles transmission …
https://www.amazon.com/Trumps-Democrats-Stephanie-Muravchik/dp/0815738633 For many of us we still scratch our heads as to how Donald Trump made it to the White House in the first place. We have all had our theories which range from the wrong candidate opposing him, a strong reaction to the Obama presidency from disgruntled white voters in rural communities and …
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 …