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Episode 59: Is Moderation the Next Big Thing in American Politics?
Season 1 Episode 59
Pundits are declaring that America is a nation divided. In fairness, this is a true statement, but it's not a new phenomenon. America has been a nation divided since at least the election of 1800. Th…
Published on 7 years, 8 months ago
Episode 58: Federal Spending Is Out of Control
Season 1 Episode 58
The American federal government has a serious spending problem. The federal debt, the sum total of all the money the government has borrowed, has hit $21 trillion, with a cool $1 trillion of that com…
Published on 7 years, 9 months ago
Episode 57: Death for Dealing... Really?
Season 1 Episode 57
Rumors have been circulating recently that the Trump Administration is considering including drug dealing among those crimes that can be subject to capital punishment. That's just a nice way of sayin…
Published on 7 years, 9 months ago
Episode 56: Tariffs Hurt Everyone, So Why Have Them?
Season 1 Episode 56
Last week, President Trump announced his intention to place tariffs on steel and aluminum. Unfortunately for the president—and everyone else, should these tariffs be imposed—more than a century of ec…
Published on 7 years, 9 months ago
Episode 55: Why Don't We Insure Guns Like We Insure Cars
Season 1 Episode 55
After the horrific school shooting in Parkland, FL, on February 14th, the "debate" about gun control has reignited in the US. Pundits on both sides of the issue are over-generalizing, taking assumpti…
Published on 7 years, 9 months ago
Episode 54: Is College Really for All?
Season 1 Episode 54
In the last two and a half generations, the number of students who go on to attend college, as a percentage of the population, has tripled. In 1959, about 20 percent of high school students went on t…
Published on 7 years, 10 months ago
Episode 53: Has Uber Become Part of the System It Fought Against?
Season 1 Episode 53
Regulatory capture is a problem in this country. It happens pretty easily. Politicians can't be experts in everything, so they turn to actual experts for help with regulating various industries. The …
Published on 7 years, 10 months ago
Episode 52: Why Does Government Keep Expanding?
Season 1 Episode 52
The fact that the United States' yearly deficit spending is set to soon top $1 trillion — an amount that is itself larger than most governments' entire operating budget — might be an indicator that t…
Published on 7 years, 10 months ago
Episode 51: America Relies on Immigrants
Season 1 Episode 51
Immigration is, as happens fairly routinely, an important topic in the national conversation these days. It's generally well-accepted that the United States is "a nation of immigrants," and yet there…
Published on 7 years, 10 months ago
Episode 50: Intentions Don't Matter — Outcomes Do
Season 1 Episode 50
Socialism is, whether we like it or not, in the national dialogue. And there are numerous people who claim to be socialists who, nevertheless, have a hard time defining what socialism actually is. So…
Published on 7 years, 11 months ago