That screaming headline encapsulates America’s changed relationship to the matter of private and public debt. It’s the only way to understand why we’ve all taken on debt–risky mortgages, students loans, sub-prime car loans–you name it, sensing that it’s OK and, in fact, encouraged in our society. Why not? Our public debt requires a constant bumping …
Have you ever caught your self telling a joke with racial overtones? There is a culture of denial within America’s white community about the existence of racism. In a poll a few years back, only 22 percent of white people believed that racism is a major societal problem. Paul Kivel is not one of them. …
Back in the 60’s many young people got in vans and VW wagons and toured the country following their new found rock legends. Today, many of the same people are back on the road again this time to escape financial hardship and to find work. The term now is ‘wheel estate’ as a whole sub-culture …
Didn’t you have the feeling that the old South had given way to a region that had turned the corner of its regrettable past? As blacks have gained political power and immigrants have moved into the region, the winds of change seemed strong. Yet, now in the wake of Charlottesville, the debate over Confederate monuments …
How well do you know the history of the United States or how the government really works? And do you think you would be capable of passing the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services naturalization test? We will put a few average Americans to the test along with author, Solomon Skolnick, on this episode. One aspect …
Today, many young people, women and others are feeling the need to get busy trying to achieve change in the political and social realm in America. On this special edition of America Trends, we explore a remarkable effort to make dramatic social change in Boston back in the 1980’s when two men, Curtis Davis and Andrew …
Amanda Litman headed up the e-mail operation(not that one)for the Hillary Clinton for President campaign in 2016. She was devastated by the loss but quickly re-grouped to found an organization and write a book encouraging millennials to ‘run for something’ on the state or local level. Thousands have come forward to seek practical advice from …
In truth, there is no country on earth that is gender- blind. Men dominate the politics and power around the globe. (Iceland comes closest in being gender- equal.) Catherine Mayer, founder of the Women’s Equality Party in the United Kingdom, imagines what it would be like if women were on the same footing as men …
Geoff Dembicki writes about millennials who think ‘gee, we’re going to be around long enough to suffer the dire consequences many climate scientists believe await mankind if we don’t wean ourselves off fossil fuels’. So, he explores what his generation is doing politically to become more active in this arena. And he finds that their …
That’s according to Peter Kalmus, an atmospheric scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, in California. Alarmed by drastic changes in the Earth’s climate systems, Kalmus, embarked on a journey to change his life and the world in the process. He cut his carbon footprint by 90 percent. How did he do it, what insights …