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EP 700 Is Nuclear Power Making a Comeback?

Posted October 18, 202300:35:06

 

As we transition from a fossil fuel-based energy sector to one focused on renewables, like wind and solar, where does nuclear power...

EP 699 Student Loan Debt Has Personal and Societal Impacts

Posted October 16, 202300:35:38

There has been much in the news about student loan debt in America, as well there should.  Not only are those long lingering debts approaching 2 trillion...

EP 698 A Black Sheriff in the Deep South Reflects on Issues of Race Then and Now

Posted October 11, 202300:35:02

Nat Glover, our guest today, is a man who has seen a lot in his lifetime.  His book “Striving for Justice: A Black Sheriff in the Deep South”...

EP 697 A Shrinking City Does Not Have to be a Dying City

Posted October 9, 202300:35:16

Paul Ehrlich’s warnings about a population bomb never really took hold, but America and the rest of the world has lived with an expectation that the...

EP 696 Native American History Revisited

Posted October 4, 202300:35:58

Native American history is often made to seem a sidebar in the American story when, in fact, it has been central to the development of the nation and...