Recently, when the U.S. Supreme Court declared the federal ban on sports betting unconstitutional and repealed the Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act, it opened the floodgates for any state to legalize sports betting. On the heels of this decision, America Trends got busy in finding out what this might suggest for the future for …
Do you believe in extraterrestrial beings and contacts from deep space? Or are you just awakening to more openness about issues of higher consciousness? If you’re like many Americans you’re becoming much more accepting of phenomena previously considered unusual and little spoken of. Producer and director Caroline Cory has just made a film, titled ‘E.T. …
For a relatively young and small country–only 70 years old and less populated than North Carolina–with few natural resources, Israel is playing a disproportionate role in solving some of the world’s biggest challenges in tech, medicine, agriculture, water independence and other fields. What explains this? Author Avi Jorisch says that while the Jewish concept of …
This episode begins a two-part series on how modern Israel came to be, what it is today and how it is making innovation its calling card to friendly and hostile nations alike. In this episode, author and scholar Michael Brenner helps us to understand Zionism in an historical context and current day challenges for the …
Description: We know the movement ‘Black Lives Matter’, but after hearing Dr. Warren Farrell address the problem, you will wonder why there is no analog to that called ‘Boys Lives Matter’. By virtually any measure, boys in America are in crisis. They are falling behind in schools, being yanked out of the workforce as automation …
If there is a trend in America begging for attention it’s what we see happening to boys in our culture. They’re failing in school, struggling to find identities and often unable to get jobs. And more to the point, they are acting out in ways that are destructive. We read in the news, on a …
You might find it increasingly difficult to get in to see your doctor–or any physician, for that matter-in the near future. The demand for doctors in the U.S. has outpaced supply, and the problem is only expected to get worse. According to new research from the Association of American Medical Colleges, the U.S. faces a …
Description: Predictive analytics is about to take the fun out of not knowing the future, according to Rebecca Costa, a sociobiologist (yes we have her explain that science). She explains that “we have more information–more empirical data–about the future than at any other time in human history. We know when a hurricane, tornado or tsunami …
Description: Whether it’s concerns about Internet security or real world impacts on the brick and mortar economy, high tech companies are under attack. And given their size and impact, The Four Horseman of the Apocalypse–Google, Apple, Facebook and Amazon–are coming under scrutiny for various reasons. Some say they have grown too big and made various …
Description: Fifty years after the sexual revolution, sex in America is in decline. Americans are having less sex, the share of Americans who say they never once had sex in the past year is rising, and–perhaps most surprising–this revolution in sexual behavior is being led by the young. And this trend pre-dates the #MeToo movement. …