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EP 965 Is the Voting Rights Act Totally Gutted After Last Week’s Supreme Court Decision?

Posted May 4, 202600:37:17

The Voting Rights Act, enacted in 1965, and considered to be the most important civil rights legislation in American history, was effectively jettisoned...

EP 964 Ancient Greece Still Shapes Our World

Posted April 29, 202600:38:20

Greek mythology.  Greek tragedy.  Greek philosophy.  Any of us who took a course or two on Western civilization remembers the name John Davies Homer,...

EP 963 Blowing the Whistle on the Vietnam Debacle

Posted April 27, 202600:44:26

Whistleblowers in our society our either considered heroes or traitors.  In any event they have a massive impact in our history.  For those who compile...

EP 962 Is GDP Still the Best Way to Measure the Performance of the Economy?

Posted April 22, 202600:32:38

 

 

The ways that statisticians and governments measure the economy were developed in the 1940’s, when the urgent economic...

EP 961 What Will Pope Leo XIV’s Legacy Be?

Posted April 20, 202600:37:24

 Pope Leo XIV, the first American Pope, has been seen as a stabilizing force in the Catholic Church after a tumultuous papacy of Pope Francis.  And...