Go beyond party lines with Justin T Weller and his counterparts as they work to bring you responsible media that focuses on honest opinions. The State of Us, formerly the Current Issues Show, examines the concepts that Americans are most passionate about and sheds light on those issues yet to be addressed.
TSOU Episode: Emotional Overstatement and Mental Health in Schools
American teenagers are reporting severe levels of anxiety and depression. But when Connecticut moved to expand mental health services in schools, it ran into fierce opposition in one town. Send any friend a story As a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month. Anyone can read what you share.
Read MoreTSOU Episode: Climate, Tax, and Health Care Bill - What Will It Do?
Climate, Health and Tax Bill Aug. 7, 2022, 1:33 p.m. ET WASHINGTON - After months of painstaking negotiations, Democrats are set to push through a climate, tax and health care package that would salvage key elements of President Biden's domestic agenda
Read MoreTSOU Episode: Climate, Tax, and Health Care Bill - What Will It Do?
A major climate and energy package announced last week in a deal by Senate Democrats would put the United States much closer to its goal of cutting global warming pollution in half by 2030, several new independent analyses have concluded.
Read MoreTSOU Episode: 4 Big Economic Problems Exposed by Baby Formula
Is my baby getting enough food? It is a typical fear among new parents - and an acute one now, because of a national shortage of baby formula. A potential bacteria outbreak led to the February shutdown of a Michigan factory that makes Similac formula, and the plant still has not reopened.
Read MoreTSOU Episode: LGBTQ Culture Wars: What is Happening?
To understand the contours of the renewed culture wars over sex education, sexual orientation and gender identity, start with a Rorschach test. According to Gallup, the share of younger Americans who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender has risen precipitously in the last decade.
Read MoreTSOU Episode: Should College be Free & Student Loans Forgiven?
The Education Issue To understand the feeling of crisis that many see in higher education right now, it's useful to start with some figures from 40 years ago. In 1974, the median American family earned just under $13,000 a year. A new home could be had for $36,000, an average new car for $4,400.
Read MoreTSOU Episode: Should College be Free & Student Loans Forgiven?
The editorial board is a group of Opinion journalists whose views are informed by expertise, research, debate and certain longstanding values. It is separate from the newsroom. The astronomical level of student debt accrued in the United States is inflicting lasting, generational damage on the lives of millions of Americans.
Read MoreTSOU Episode: The Bipartisan Gun Bill - Will it Matter?
The lengthy police response to a school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, and the death of an armed security guard as part of an attack on a Buffalo supermarket last month have drawn fresh scrutiny to a recurring (and uniquely American) debate: What role should the police and bystanders play in active shooter attacks, and what interventions would best stop the violence?
Read MoreTSOU Episode: The Bipartisan Gun Bill - Will it Matter?
The 64-to-34 vote came just hours after Republicans and Democrats released the text of the legislation, which could become the most significant overhaul of the nation's gun laws in decades.
Read MoreTSOU Episode: The Bipartisan Gun Bill - Will it Matter?
If the key gun control proposals now being considered in Congress had been law since 1999, four gunmen younger than 21 would have been blocked from legally buying the rifles they used in mass shootings. At least four other assailants would have been subject to a required background check, instead of slipping through a loophole.
Read MoreTSOU Episode: Drone Delivery & Electric Planes are Arriving
A new aircraft being built in Vermont has no need for jet fuel. It can take off and land without a runway. Amazon and the Air Force are both betting on it. So who will be in the cockpit?
Read MoreTSOU Episode: Is There a Solution to School Shootings
Britain, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Norway: All had a culture of gun ownership, and all tightened restrictions anyway. Their violence statistics now diverge sharply from those of the U.S. The world over, mass shootings are frequently met with a common response: Officials impose new restrictions on gun ownership. Mass shootings become rarer.
Read MoreTSOU Episode: What You Must Know About Your Food & Modern Agriculture
Editorial Observer A couple years ago, I saw a small field of oats growing in northwest Iowa - a 40-acre patch in a sea of genetically modified corn and soybeans. It was an unusual sight. I asked my cousins, who still farm what my dad always called the "home place," whether someone had added oats to the rotation of crops being planted.
Read MoreTSOU Episode: Putin Says United States is to Blame for Invasion of Ukraine
E.U. ambassadors broke off talks for the day in Brussels, having failed to persuade Hungary, which has emerged as a possible spoiler to European unity. In Washington, the House endorsed a $40 billion aid package for Ukraine, which awaits Senate approval.
Read MoreTSOU Episode: Should Baseball Be Saved?
Major League Baseball and its fans have raised alarms in recent years over a perceived decline in the popularity of baseball in the United States. Falling attendance, poor World Series ratings and a lack of nationally recognized stars are often cited as evidence of the sport's impending collapse.
Read MoreTSOU Episode: Should Baseball Be Saved?
Mr. Walther is the editor of The Lamp, a Catholic literary journal. He writes frequently about sports. Opening day of the Major League Baseball season, which falls on Thursday after being delayed for a week by a labor dispute, is as good an occasion as any for fans of the game to come to terms with certain hard facts.
Read MoreTSOU Episode: Russia's Invasion of Ukraine Impacts North Korea and Iran
With the world eager to wean itself from Russian oil after the invasion of Ukraine, negotiators appeared close to signing a revived nuclear pact with Iran and lifting sanctions. Then Moscow put up a hurdle.
Read MoreTSOU Episode: Russia's Invasion of Ukraine Impacts North Korea and Iran
The Russian leader has stabilized the ruble and kept Europe's leaders guessing by threatening to cut off energy. But he has left the country financially isolated. LONDON - In the five weeks since Russia invaded Ukraine, the United States, the European Union and their allies began an economic counteroffensive that has cut off Russia's access to hundreds of billions of dollars of its own money and halted a large chunk of its international commerce.
Read MoreTSOU Episode: Gender in Sports and What to do About It
For nearly a century, certain elite athletes have been subject to anatomical, chromosomal or hormonal testing to compete in women's events. At the Ivy League women's swimming championships this week, many eyes in the crowd will be fixed on Lia Thomas, a star of the University of Pennsylvania team.
Read MoreTSOU Episode: Voters and Our Powers are Being Erased
Gerrymandering has been criticized for disenfranchising voters and fueling polarization. To help you understand it better, we created an imaginary state called Hexapolis, where your only mission is to gerrymander your party to power.
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