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: Milk in Schools, Homework + Book Bans
Book publisher Penguin Random House and advocacy group PEN America sued a Florida school district Wednesday, alleging restrictions on library books about LGBT identity and issues of race and racism violate the constitution.
Read MoreTSOU Episode: Voters Dread the 2024 Election and GOP Shifts Tactics
WASHINGTON—Once considered natural political allies, the Republican Party and big business are drifting apart. One sign of their estrangement: GOP lawmakers are weaning themselves off money from corporate political-action committees.
Read MoreTSOU Episode: Voters Dread the 2024 Election and GOP Shifts Tactics
As Donald Trump entered a Miami courtroom earlier this week to face federal charges, drawing a raucous crowd and a crush of news media, John Newman felt fatigued by the thought that 16 months of a presidential campaign were yet to come.
Read MoreTSOU Episode: Leading Cause of Death for Kids: Homicides and Suicides by Gun
For decades, advances in healthcare and safety steadily drove down death rates among American children. In an alarming reversal, rates have now risen to the highest level in nearly 15 years, particularly driven by homicides, drug overdoses, car accidents and suicides.
Read MoreTSOU Episode: Court Limits Government Contact With Social Media & Drugs Power the Industry
Elon Musk takes ketamine. Sergey Brin sometimes enjoys magic mushrooms. Executives at venture-capital firm Founders Fund, known for its investments in SpaceX and Facebook, have thrown parties that include psychedelics.
Read MoreTSOU Episode: Court Limits Government Contact With Social Media & Drugs Power the Industry
A federal judge issued a broad preliminary injunction limiting the federal government from communicating with social-media companies about online content, ruling that Biden administration officials’ policing of social-media posts likely violated the First Amendment.
Read MoreTSOU Episode: Beef: The Dying American Dream?
Ranchers are shrinking cattle herds because of drought and high costs, cutting down the nation’s supply of beef. That threatens to push prices for steaks and burgers to records.
Read MoreTSOU Episode: Paper Money and Newspaper Cut-Out Diehards
New course in nation’s largest school district also instructs that ‘elderly’ is a no-no, and includes videos of elders doing yoga. NEW YORK—High-school teacher Kaydiana O’Mealley recently asked her students an age-old question. What age is old?
Read MoreTSOU Episode: Paper Money and Newspaper Cut-Out Diehards
Some people still deliver news, tips and the occasional obituary to their grown children using scissors, stamps and envelopes; ‘Sometimes they chuckle at me, which is fine’Stephen Butkus is a total copycat.
Read MoreTSOU Episode: Paper Money and Newspaper Cut-Out Diehards
Many businesses take payment only by card or phone, but a pro-cash movement is urging people to ‘Resist! Defy! Don’t comply!’. HUDDERSFIELD, England—There’s another revolt brewing in the English heartlands.
Read MoreTSOU Episode: Instagram's Network of Pedophiles
Instagram, the popular social-media site owned by Meta META 2.30%increase; green up pointing triangle Platforms, helps connect and promote a vast network of accounts openly devoted to the commission and purchase of underage-sex content, according to investigations by The Wall Street Journal and researchers at Stanford University and the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
Read MoreTSOU Episode: The Battle for 'Scaffle' Voters in 2024 & Could a Third Party Work?
After Ron DeSantis announced he was holding a fund-raiser last night at the Four Seasons hotel, an official close to Donald Trump mocked the event as “uber elite” and “out of touch.” Trump has also criticized DeSantis for supporting past Republican bills in Congress to shrink government partly by cutting
Read MoreTSOU Episode: Debt Ceiling Fight & How to Fix It
The debt-ceiling standoff has renewed debate over the Constitution’s 14th Amendment. Some lawyers argue it lets President Biden unilaterally pay the nation’s debts without heeding Republicans’ demands; others say that idea fundamentally misreads the Constitution.
Read MoreTSOU Episode: Creating Powerful Internships for Employers and Students
Getting internships right can be especially important for companies now, in a tight job market, where hiring off the street is challenging. Many companies use summer internships as a springboard for hiring. But they don’t always do a good job of making sure their programs deliver big benefits to the interns and the company.
Read MoreTSOU Episode: Millennials Segregated and The New Rules of Housing
Steep increases in home prices and mortgage rates have set buyers on divergent financial trajectories—even when they bought only a year or two apart. Elizabeth and Phillip Martin feel lucky to have bought a house in 2020 with a mortgage rate of 2.875%.
Read MoreTSOU Episode: Millennials Segregated and The New Rules of Housing
The racial and ethnic diversity of millennials has been widely remarked upon since the term was coined to describe people born in the 1980s and 1990s. William Frey, a demographer at the Brookings Institution, dubbed millennials “a demographic bridge to America’s diverse future.”
Read MoreTSOU Episode: Low Wages Cost a High Price - Who is Really Wining
In “The Wealth of Nations,” the founding text of free-market economics, Adam Smith took it for granted that workers should be paid enough to cover the living costs of themselves and their dependents. “A man must always live by his work, and his wages must at least be sufficient to maintain him,” wrote Smith. “
Read MoreTSOU Episode: Should Children Work & Americans Lose Faith in College
A majority of Americans don’t think a college degree is worth the cost, according to a new Wall Street Journal-NORC poll, a new low in confidence in what has long been a hallmark of the American dream. The survey, conducted with NORC at the University of Chicago, a nonpartisan research organization, found that 56% of Americans think earning a four-year degree is a bad bet compared with 42% who retain faith in the credential.
Read MoreTSOU Episode: 5 AI Questions to Get Your Blood Pumping
Last year was when artificial intelligence appeared to come into its own, with seemingly magical bots creating images, answering questions, even writing literature. But as with all new tools, society has to figure out which tasks AI is best for, and how to use it without breaking things.
Read MoreTSOU Episode: Supermarkets of the Future vs Small Towns
As the country’s two biggest supermarket chains envision the future of their planned megamerger, you’ll be able to purchase groceries, a coffee, patio furniture, and your allergy medicine prescription. The store deduces you might also like a humidifier to help the sneezes and some local honey, all of which it has ready for you. At dinnertime, order in sushi, which was made by a kitchen owned by the supermarket.
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