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The Whole Truth with David Eisenhower

Alternative Energy Futures

Ending Absolute Poverty: Small Things With Big Impacts

Ending Absolute Poverty: Small Things With Big Impacts

In 2016, for the first time in history, the portion of humanity living in extreme poverty was reduced to less than 10%. The world has set a goal of abolishing absolute poverty by 2030. Our panel of thought leaders discuss the ways in which they are each working on disruptive

Is the Bear Back in the Wood, and Should the Eagle Respond?

Is the Bear Back in the Wood, and Should the Eagle Respond?

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Identity Politics: Embracing Diversity or House Divided

Identity Politics: Embracing Diversity or House Divided

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Is American Criminal Justice Just?

Is American Criminal Justice Just?

Most Americans hold judges, prosecutors, and especially police, in high esteem for the great sacrifices they often make to protect and serve our communities. Can we find a path forward in which a broad majority of Americans, including Americans belonging to racial or ethnic minorities, can believe that American criminal

Alternative Energy Futures

Alternative Energy Futures

So far, the debate about the future of energy seems locked in the past – a political and economic struggle between the fossil fuel industry and the renewables sector, especially solar power and wind power, which have already been offered as alternatives for decades. But what else may be out there,

Healthcare: Beyond The Insurance Coverage Debate

Healthcare: Beyond The Insurance Coverage Debate

Given the spending of the American healthcare system, why are health outcomes not better than these lesser spending nations? Our panel explores issues including why healthcare in the US costs so much more than other advanced countries, without achieving better outcomes and whether the coming digital/mobile advances in healthcare

Overmedicated, Overdosed America: The Opioid Epidemic

Overmedicated, Overdosed America: The Opioid Epidemic

What has caused the surge in addiction and its consequences and what can be done about it? Our panel explores issues including the social, economic, and cultural context of the rapid increase in opioid abuse and related deaths, the medical aspects of substance abuse treatment and recovery, and public policy

American Workforce 2040

American Workforce 2040

Our panel explores issues including the proper target for workforce participation, potential ways to address decreases in workforce participation by non-college educated men, the potential costs and benefits on the workforce of the next wave of automation and artificial intelligence advancements and, more generally, the future of work in our

Ending Modern Slavery

Ending Modern Slavery

Modern day sex trafficking and other forms of coerced labor not only persist in this country, and around the world, but are continuing to grow into one of the world’s largest and most lucrative businesses. The best chroniclers of this phenomenon conclude that there are more slaves today than

Exploring 21st Century Islam: Roles, Traditions and Upheaval

Exploring 21st Century Islam: Roles, Traditions and Upheaval

Three American Muslims offer widely varied points of view on developments within Islam and in the relations between Muslims and non-Muslims in the United States. Guests: Nihad Awad, executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations - Raza Bokhari, North American Point of Contact for former President of Pakistan, Pervez

American Military Power: Too Much? Too Little?

American Military Power: Too Much? Too Little?

A diverse panel, debates the proper size, cost, and missions for the United States Armed Forces. Guests: Nora Bensahel, scholar at the School of International Service at American University - General Wesley Clark, former Supreme Allied Commander in Europe - Justin Johnson, defense budget analyst - Christopher Preble, Vice President

Ending Absolute Poverty: Small Things With Big Impacts

Ending Absolute Poverty: Small Things With Big Impacts

In 2016, for the first time in history, the portion of humanity living in extreme poverty was reduced to less than 10%. The world has set a goal of abolishing absolute poverty by 2030. Our panel of thought leaders discuss the ways in which they are each working on disruptive

Is the Bear Back in the Wood, and Should the Eagle Respond?

Is the Bear Back in the Wood, and Should the Eagle Respond?

The 1980’s presidential campaigns of Ronald Reagan burned into the American consciousness an image of our country’s relationship with Russia – the image of the need for strength and vigilance against a scary “bear in the woods.” Since the rise to power of Vladimir Putin, concern about the expansion

Identity Politics: Embracing Diversity or House Divided

Identity Politics: Embracing Diversity or House Divided

On both the left and the right, there are differences and divisions among groups of Americans. Are politics highlighting differences among Americans a sign of progress – ferreting out historical wrongs and establishing protection for new expressions of rights – or are we becoming once more, as we were in the lead-up

Is American Criminal Justice Just?

Is American Criminal Justice Just?

Most Americans hold judges, prosecutors, and especially police, in high esteem for the great sacrifices they often make to protect and serve our communities. Can we find a path forward in which a broad majority of Americans, including Americans belonging to racial or ethnic minorities, can believe that American criminal

Alternative Energy Futures

Alternative Energy Futures

So far, the debate about the future of energy seems locked in the past – a political and economic struggle between the fossil fuel industry and the renewables sector, especially solar power and wind power, which have already been offered as alternatives for decades. But what else may be out there,

Healthcare: Beyond The Insurance Coverage Debate

Healthcare: Beyond The Insurance Coverage Debate

Given the spending of the American healthcare system, why are health outcomes not better than these lesser spending nations? Our panel explores issues including why healthcare in the US costs so much more than other advanced countries, without achieving better outcomes and whether the coming digital/mobile advances in healthcare

Overmedicated, Overdosed America: The Opioid Epidemic

Overmedicated, Overdosed America: The Opioid Epidemic

What has caused the surge in addiction and its consequences and what can be done about it? Our panel explores issues including the social, economic, and cultural context of the rapid increase in opioid abuse and related deaths, the medical aspects of substance abuse treatment and recovery, and public policy

American Workforce 2040

American Workforce 2040

Our panel explores issues including the proper target for workforce participation, potential ways to address decreases in workforce participation by non-college educated men, the potential costs and benefits on the workforce of the next wave of automation and artificial intelligence advancements and, more generally, the future of work in our

Ending Modern Slavery

Ending Modern Slavery

Modern day sex trafficking and other forms of coerced labor not only persist in this country, and around the world, but are continuing to grow into one of the world’s largest and most lucrative businesses. The best chroniclers of this phenomenon conclude that there are more slaves today than

Exploring 21st Century Islam: Roles, Traditions and Upheaval

Exploring 21st Century Islam: Roles, Traditions and Upheaval

Three American Muslims offer widely varied points of view on developments within Islam and in the relations between Muslims and non-Muslims in the United States. Guests: Nihad Awad, executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations - Raza Bokhari, North American Point of Contact for former President of Pakistan, Pervez

American Military Power: Too Much? Too Little?

American Military Power: Too Much? Too Little?

A diverse panel, debates the proper size, cost, and missions for the United States Armed Forces. Guests: Nora Bensahel, scholar at the School of International Service at American University - General Wesley Clark, former Supreme Allied Commander in Europe - Justin Johnson, defense budget analyst - Christopher Preble, Vice President