America Trends Podcast

Recent Episodes

EP 566 Diverse Democracies Can Easily Come Apart. Can We Keep This One Together?

Posted July 6, 2022 • 00:36:20

President Biden has been stressing the fragility of democracy in the context of a growing authoritarian strain around the globe. Poster...

EP 565 Commercial Fishing Arrives in the 21st Century

Posted July 4, 2022 • 00:35:24

Remember Steinbeck’s “The Old Man and the Sea”? It is a striking image of a curmudgeonly type of grisled character trolling...

EP 564 Is America Falling Behind China?

Posted June 29, 2022 • 00:36:12

It is very hard to typify what America’s relationship is with China. We are economically co-dependent and yet we’re competitors. Some say we’re...

EP 563 A Summer Going Down the QAnon and White Supremacist Rabbit Hole

Posted June 27, 2022 • 00:37:05

The International Center for the Study of Violent Extremism(ICSVE) has spent a lot of time monitoring and reporting on the actions and motivation of...

EP 562 Will the Cold War Resume After the Hot War Ends in Ukraine?

Posted June 22, 2022 • 00:34:42

The aftermath of the war in Ukraine is uncertain because so much depends on the outcome, but speculation is that relations between the United States...