Episodios

  • EP 925 Rare Earth Minerals Become Key Elements in U.S.-China Competition

    EP 925 Rare Earth Minerals Become Key Elements in U.S.-China Competition
    Dec 16 2025
    Rare earth minerals may be a misnomer. While they are critical minerals to our modern, digital life, they are not that rare. The problem is finding them in concentrated places where it is economically and environmentally responsible to mine them. This group of 17 metallic elements is crucial for modern technologies due to their magnetic …

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    34 m
  • EP 924 News Media Rocked by Technological and Political Pressures

    EP 924 News Media Rocked by Technological and Political Pressures
    Dec 10 2025
    I’m old enough to remember when ABC, NBC and CBS dominated our television viewing and our consumption of electronic news, and that the viewer had to be in front of the television set at an appointed time to receive the information. Today, the gatekeeper, who once decided when and what type of news content …

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    37 m
  • EP 923 Industrial Farming Killed the Idyllic Notion of the Little Red Barn

    EP 923 Industrial Farming Killed the Idyllic Notion of the Little Red Barn
    Dec 8 2025
    Where did “The Little House on the Prairie” go? It’s probably in foreclosure and will be sold to a private equity company to build nondescript condominiums. In its place has grown up a powerful factory farming industry which has no particular affinity for the welfare of the farm animals they sell, the workers they often …

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    42 m
  • EP 922 The Intellectual Framers on the Furious Right

    EP 922 The Intellectual Framers on the Furious Right
    Dec 3 2025
    How has the MAGA movement in Trump 2.0 been so resolute in meeting its objectives, as stated in Project 2025, despite the President’s own disavowal of the document? The ideas of the unitary executive, the politization of the federal bureaucracy and the dismantlement of federal programs, such as USAID, has been so stark in contrast …

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    40 m
  • EP 921 Artificial Intelligence Will Have Real Impact on People

    EP 921 Artificial Intelligence Will Have Real Impact on People
    Dec 1 2025
    The success of AI will make some fortunes. Displace others from their professional pursuits. Enhance productivity for corporations. Take strain off of many in the medical field. And more. While we know that the impact of the colliding technologies which enhance deep learning by machines will have a profound impact, in truth we do not …

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    54 m
  • EP 920 When Followers Take the Lead

    EP 920 When Followers Take the Lead
    Nov 26 2025
    The staff of America Trends Podcast would like to wish all are listeners A very Happy Thanksgiving Ira Chaleff, an expert in political followership reveals how political followers can make or ‘brake’ toxic leaders and what we can do-no matter our political sophistication or where we sit on the political spectrum-to support beneficial leaders …

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    38 m
  • EP 919 Campaign Funding Keeps Changing the Political Landscape

    EP 919 Campaign Funding Keeps Changing the Political Landscape
    Nov 24 2025
    Brody Mullins, and his brother, Luke, wrote the much heralded “The Wolves of K Street”, about how the last fifty years of corporate influence in Washington had shifted Washington D.C.’s center of power from elected officials to extravagantly paid operators, using a new bag of tricks, who bent public policy in favor of corporate interests. …

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    38 m
  • EP 918 Can Humans Survive the Scientific Challenges of Our Own Making?

    EP 918 Can Humans Survive the Scientific Challenges of Our Own Making?
    Nov 19 2025
    The doomsday clock is ticking…and who can we blame if the alarm is sounded and we find out it’s too late for the human species to recover? There’s a certain irony that all of the good things that science and technology have wrought, bring with them byproducts which are the key ingredients of our own …

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    30 m