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  • New Book Examines How American Regional Divides Are Root Causes of Political Polarization

    New Book Examines How American Regional Divides Are Root Causes of Political Polarization
    2025/12/27
    Colin Woodard talks about his new book, Nations Apart: How Clashing Regional Cultures Shattered America. The best-selling author of American Nations explores the regional roots of the partisan divide over several key issues (guns, immigration, climate, authoritarianism) and offers ideas on how to unify the nation based on new cultural insights and opinion research.
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    29 分
  • H.W. Brands: "No One Like Jackson Had Ever Been Elected (President)"

    H.W. Brands: "No One Like Jackson Had Ever Been Elected (President)"
    2025/12/20
    Nationally-eminent historian H.W. Brands discusses his book, Andrew Jackson: His Like and Times, a timely topic since Jackson is one of president Trump's favorites. Brands discusses Jackson's upbringing that shaped his values as president, the "Corrupt Bargain" and the longest campaign for the presidency in 1828, Jackson's appeal to voters, his role in what Brands calls the beginning of American democracy and its first true test, and the similarities and differences between Jackson and Trump.
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    29 分
  • 2026 Will Be A Critical Year for Addressing Health Care Worker Shortage

    2026 Will Be A Critical Year for Addressing Health Care Worker Shortage
    2025/12/13
    A.J. Wilhemi, President and CEO of the Illinois Health and Hospital Association, talks about the impact of the Affordable Care Act on Illinois health care, the system's dependence on federal programs like Medicare and Medicaid, the shortage of health care workers, how immigration impacts health care staffing, rural health care, the increasing roles of technology and AI, and much more.
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    29 分
  • "Hell in a Handbasket:" Manchin Says Our Partisan Divide Started in the 2004 Election Cycle

    "Hell in a Handbasket:" Manchin Says Our Partisan Divide Started in the 2004 Election Cycle
    2025/12/06
    Former West Virginia Governor and Senator Joe Manchin discusses his recent book Dead Center: In Defense of Common Sense, how the Democrats lost working class voters, how he was able to win in a Red State, our partisan divide, his defense of the filibuster, and much more.
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    29 分
  • New Book Provides Definitive Account of the Edmund Fitzgerald

    New Book Provides Definitive Account of the Edmund Fitzgerald
    2025/11/29
    John Bacon talks about his book, The Gales Of November: The Untold Story of the Edmund Fitzgerald, including the history of the Great Lakes, the importance of shipping on the Lakes to our national security, the ship and crew, and the events of that fateful voyage 50 years ago.
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    29 分
  • US, China "The Two Most Alike People in the World"

    US, China "The Two Most Alike People in the World"
    2025/11/22
    Dan Wang, author of Breakneck: China's Quest to Engineer the Future, talks about the US-China global competition from his unique perspective,the "engineering state versus the lawyer state," Trump's trade policy and the impact of tariffs, why the US needs more manufacturing, the lessons of Robert Moses in rebuilding our infrastructure, and what thetwo countries can learn about each other.
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    29 分
  • New Book Explores the Urban-Rural Divide, Why It Matters and How to Overcome It.

    New Book Explores the Urban-Rural Divide, Why It Matters and How to Overcome It.
    2025/11/15
    Suzanne Mettler co-author of Rural Versus Urban: The Growing Divide That Threatens Democracy, talks about the economic foundations of the divide, how rural resentment against elites grew, the importance of local party organizations in addressing the divide and much more.
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    29 分
  • New Documentary, Airing Nov. 10, Shows Two Biggest Battles of Iraq War as Told by Those Who Fought

    New Documentary, Airing Nov. 10, Shows Two Biggest Battles of Iraq War as Told by Those Who Fought
    2025/11/08
    Michael Pack, award-winning film producer and president of Manifold Productions, talks about his new documentary, The Last 600 Meters, which tells the story of the 2004 battles of Najaf and Fallujah.
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    29 分