America Trends Podcast

Recent Episodes

EP 659 Universal Basic Income Being Road Tested Across America

Posted May 28, 2023 • 00:39:23

Imagine getting a check for $1,000 from this point on, on the first day of every month, deposited directly into your bank account. What...

EP 658 How Healthy Are State and Local Government Finances?

Posted May 24, 2023 • 00:36:05

Faced with mounting Medicaid costs, powerful public employee unions and often underfunded pension and medical obligations, state and local...

EP 656 Avoiding Complicity in Wrongdoing

Posted May 18, 2023 • 00:34:27

Enron. Theranos. Purdue Pharma. Harvey Weinstein. The Nazis. Awful behavior abounds. The question is what do we do when we see it? Do we become...

EP 655 Could America Have Won the Vietnam War?

Posted May 15, 2023 • 00:30:02

America lost the Vietnam War. End of sentence. The reasons most scholars give are many. Chief among them is the notion that the North Vietnamese and...

EP 654 Tying the Knot in New Ways in America

Posted May 10, 2023 • 00:38:21

Like all rites of passage in modern America, the wedding is undergoing a transformation. From who officiates to the vows that are taken to whether...