Rachel Bowen, associate professor of political science at Ohio State University and the author of The Achilles Heel of Democracy: Judicial Autonomy and the Rule of Law in Central America (Cambridge University Press, 2017), talks about the constitutional crisis inside Guatemala that is causing increased migration to the U.S.
Social Media vs Humans (Brian Lehrer)
(18 minutes) There was a guest who diagramed how a social media story was shared.
Now he waits until someone has picked it apart.
Think of yourself as on social media as if you were on a drug.
Stephen Harper on the Success of Healthcare (Brian Lehr)
(16 min)
Healthcare policy is problematic because of the success of the medical profession in developing so many treatments.
Stephen J. Harper, economist, entrepreneur, former G-7 leader who served as Canada’s 22nd Prime Minister, and the author of Right Here, Right Now: Politics and Leadership in the Age of Disruption(Signal, 2018), examines the global trends and the legitimate concerns of voters that led to the election of President Trump.
Pussy Riot’s Rules for Revolution
A founding member of the punk/art protest group Pussy Riot draws on her life of activism and offers her “rules for revolution.” Oct 22, 2018
Similarities between Trump and Putin
They talk about retrieving past glory but they do not really think much about history or ideology.
They do not care about ideology.
They only care about money and power.
The would choose any political system to build and maintain their power.