How Do We Fix It?
By DaviesContent
From politics to the personal, we're about solutions. Our weekly podcast features two friends and longtime journalists. Join Richard Davies (ABC News) and Jim Meigs (Popular Mechanics) as they challenge authors, experts and provocateurs in a search for positive, practical ideas. Guests include Alan Dershowitz, a noted legal scholar and defender of civil liberties; Mike Rowe of "Dirty Jobs" and Lenore Skenazy, founder of "Free Range Kids." Topics include politics, parenting, personal finance, human behavior and much more. "How Do We Fix It?" - a repair manual for the real world. Produced by DaviesContent
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The Collapse of Local News and How to Rebuild Regional Journalism: Anna Brugman
In much of the country local news has collapsed, threatening civic pride and a sense of community for countless towns and cities. This dramatic change has also -
Diversity Is Great. DEI Isn't. Amna Khalid and Jeff Snyder
Diversity equity and inclusion: Sounds like a good thing in an incredibly diverse country such as ours, especially when teaching young people at American colleges and universities.But the DEI industry - or DEI Inc. — has argua… -
Politics: Majority In The Middle. Shannon Watson
News coverage of Super Tuesday and other party primaries focused mainly on base voters— Democrats and Republicans. But most Americans are actually on the political sidelines or somewhere in the middle. Many have a mix of conservative and libe… -
Changing Journalism: Boosting Trust in the News Media. Joy Mayer
Only four-in-ten Americans say they have a lot of trust in… -
Ideas For Everyone: The Virtues of a Liberal Education. Roosevelt Montás
What is the point of a good education? Do we need it to learn a narrow set of skills ro help us get ahead in the workplace, or should knowledge and learning to be used over a lifetim… -
What Could Go Right? 2024 Predictions Show
From the economy and prospects for a Biden vs Trump rematch to the future for global energy and artificial intelligence, Richard and Jim make their forecasts for 2024. And we re-visit our predictions from exactly a year ago and rep… -
How to Escape The Identity Trap - Yascha Mounk (part two)
We continue our discussion with Yascha Mounk, one of the leading public intellectuals of our time. The subject is a hugely influential ideology that attempts to put racial, sexual and gender identity at the center of our social, cultural and … -
The Origins of Today's Identity Politics - Yascha Mounk (part one)
Having skewered right-wing populism and its demagogues in his two previous best-selling books, politics professor, writer, and podcaster Yasha Mounk tur… -
Imaging a Better Future. How Doomers Prevent Progress. James Pethokoukis
Yes, it's our 400th episode. But instead of looking back over the past eight-and-a-half years of our podcasts, we consider the future: How collective optimism or pessimism can have a huge impact on the economy, risk taking, and the … -
Polarization Series: Bridging Divides at Braver Angels. Erica Manuel and Manu Meel
Affective polarization in America – the gap between voters' positive feelings about their own political party or "side" and negative feelings toward the opposing party – has sharply increased during the past two decades.We speak with tw…