It’s fair to say the answer to that question for many of us is a long time ago. Given the rapid, almost unimaginable, disruption in every sector, caused by technology, how could schools remain immune from this? Or are they? One of our listeners asked that we look at the future of public education. In …
In laws as complex as the one involving significant tax changes, adherents on all sides can say just about anything they want about its impact on one group or another before its implemented. So, we decided to turn to Steve Malanga, an expert in state and local finance at the Manhattan Institute, to break …
Two-time Pulitzer Prize winner, Jake Bernstein, introduces us to a world apart–offshore and out of view to most except the wealthiest and most powerful. And yet, the investigative team he was a part of that broke the Panama Papers story shook that world to its core recently by exposing the methods and means they use …
While we can blame the internet or Amazon, in particular, or the smartphone that brought them to us so easily, the way we shop has changed forever. But, according to Kristen Bahler, in an article in a December 2017 article in MONEY Magazine, don’t give up on the brick and mortar store just yet as …
Many have predicted much doom about the FCC’s striking down of net neutrality rules put in place during the Obama Administration. Some suggest that you will now pay for the Internet the way you do(or did)for cable television–in bundles. Our guest, Professor Richard Hanley, of Quinnipiac University, does not think we can rush to …
Zak Dychtwald is an American millennial. And while he has great faith in his fellow countrymen, he is quite impressed with those his age in China. They are many times larger in number than their American counterparts and determined to help China achieve very ambitious goals in their lifetime. And while they may be different …
Why, then, are they called ‘The Leftovers’? You will have to listen to author, Roseann Lake, bend your perceptions of modern China as it relates to their demographics in the wake of the newly discarded ‘one child policy’. On the face of it, it may not be clear why there are so many well educated, …
As Supreme Court justices once said about pornography, you know it when you see it. And in the news everyday, we learn of egregious abuses of power and sex by superiors in media, government and business. It could be verbal or physical, happen once or repeatedly, and create a hostile work environment. We explore the …
Here’s one way to debunk President Trump’s s—hole nations smear. Portray an African nation as a technologically advanced society and then emerge as the hottest movie ticket in years. Credit the monstrous opening of this African themed, superhero movie from Marvel Studios, now part of the Disney family, with shattering records and busting myths. Will this …
Hillary Clinton won 3 million more votes than Donald Trump. He’s the President and she’s promoting a book trying to explain what went wrong. The question we ponder on this podcast is whether the system we have for choosing a president itself in need of repair. The Electoral College, part of a ‘Great Compromise by …