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 …
https://www.amazon.com/American-Way-Empire-America-World-But/dp/1733117814 This is the second episode devoted to the dominant position America has played across the globe for nearly a century. The truth of the matter it it is coming to an end. Issues at home and abroad, as well as recent health and financial shocks, have made America attend to other matters and question …
https://www.amazon.com/Imperialism-Developing-World-Britain-Periphery/dp/0190069627/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&qid=1592772397&refinements=p_27%3AAtul+Kohli&s=books&sr=1-1 Empires of the past were pretty clear in their intent. They actually controlled the politics and the economy of the nations they colonized and put down their flag so there be no misunderstanding about their interests. In the modern era, following the Spanish Empire, the best example of that, of course, was the British …
https://www.manhattan-institute.org/ Let’s be honest, it seems to be getting harder and harder to get around in this country. So much so that the skies above major metropolises like Los Angeles are filled with commuters in helicopters, like the one that went down recently killing Kobe Bryant, his daughter, Gigi, and eight other persons. The situation …
https://polisci.unl.edu/kevin-smith Tens of millions of us believe that politics is exacting a toll on our social, psychological, emotional and, even, physical health. A study done in late 2019 shows, for example, that over thirty eight percent of the 800 people surveyed nationally said that politics is the root of their stress and that they have …
https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-First/Stanley-Fish/9781982115241 The answer to the question is ‘yes’ as long as you understand the limitations of the doctrine of free speech and how its elasticity applies in the case of issues like campus speech, hate speech and fake news. Our guest, Stanley Fish, one of the great public thinkers on the American stage today was …
http://www.jackkerfoot.com/ Who better than a forty year veteran of the oil business to guide us through a discussion that ends with a new reliance and confidence that renewable energy sources are viable and poised to fuel our country? That’s what we develop in detail and nuance in a wide-ranging discussion with Jack Kerfoot, author of …
https://medicine.yale.edu/yigh/about/ While this podcast focuses on the likelihood of the continuing trend of viruses circling the globe, it was recorded just as the impacts of the novel coronavirus were coming into view in the United States. Just in the recent past, we have seen the swine flu, Zika, SARS, Ebola and, most recently, coronavirus. With …