American Enough
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American Enough
America's identity is evolving in real time. Immigrants are being scoffed at for looking a certain way and not being "American" enough. Transgender individuals are being determined not "fit enough" to serve in our military. Sexual assault and neo-nazi behavior is being condoned by the Oval Office. T...
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68 episodes
This Is Life with Lisa Ling - Stories of American Identity
This is Life with Lisa Ling is an investigative docuseries on CNN. Lisa Ling, award-winning journalist and author, immerses herself in extraordinary,...
How to Rebuild Trust in American Leadership
From the NFL to Media Executives to elected office, the trust & faith we have in the very organizations that define American culture is has dwindled....
If You’re Not Cheating, You’re Not Trying: Gaming College Admissions with a 14-Year Veteran of the Game
While wealth has been used to hack college admissions for generations, the FBI indictment in Operation Varsity Blues underscores vast inequities in hi...
Fewer Veterans Are Running for Public Office. Meet the Team Changing That: New Politics
Emily Cherniack & Micah Scharf of New Politics join the pod to discuss why recruiting service members for a second tour of duty — representing their c...
Is an “America First” Strategy Disrupting Alliances Abroad? We Asked a Parliamentarian from Europe.
Dr. Ricardo Leite, a Member of Parliament from Portugal, joins the pod to discuss how multilateral relations between traditional allies is shifting in...
Opportunity Zones – Can a Tax Break Save the US-Mexico Border?
Should Amazon Have Invested In Opportunity Zones? And, what do Napster, Cory Booker, and VP Pence have in common?
Even though Amazon was pillori...
Changing of the Guard: How Millennials are Grabbing Seats of Power
Why Millennials in America are becoming the face of community organizing, new technologies, and the nation…
Founder & Executive Director of the...
Why Women Still March
Showing up at The Women’s March in San Francisco, CA – January, 2019
While 2019’s Women’s March was criticized for size, affiliation, accusation...
Is 2019 the Year America Finally Enacts Paid Family Leave Policies?
Why working families in the United States struggle to spend time with newborns & raise their families…
Executive Director of the nation’s leadin...
(Golden Globes Special): Is Hollywood Shifting from Commercial Impact to Social Impact?
The transforming of creative content in Hollywood…
In an era where entertainment increasingly mirrors the despair contained within our daily new...
Why are Paychecks Shrinking, if the Economy is Booming?
Why Most Americans Can’t Afford a $400 Bill
Rachel Schneider (Author of the Financial Diaries, and Entrepreneur in Resident at the...
How New York Trains Workers For a World of A.I. – with Karen Bhatia
With all the promise & fret of automation, artificial intelligence, and robotics —
Karen Bhatia, Vice President of New York City’s Economic Deve...
How the City of L.A. Resists Anti-Immigration Policies in the Era of Trump
Dealing with changing Federal policy in immigration affairs departments in major US cities…
Dr. Linda Lopez, Chief of Immigrant Affairs to LA Ma...
#GivingTuesday & Lyft: Are Tech Companies Leading the Way on Social Impact?
Lyft’s Head of Social Impact, Mike Masserman, joins the pod to talk about how a tech company can still invest in social good — even in an era of heigh...
The Unsung Heroes of The West Wing
Presidential speechwriters, Pentagon advisors, and the staff who help confirm Supreme Court justices don’t often grace the front pages of newspapers o...
Automation and the Future of Work in America
New forms of work, through apps like Uber, and new forms of automation — are sparking both new opportunities and considerable angst among American wor...
What’s the Matter with Florida? Comparing the 2000 and 2018 Election Recounts
Bush v. Gore Florida recount attorney, and veteran campaign operative, Todd Elmer joins the pod to describe what the chaos inside an election recount...
Banning Gender: How America is Attempting to Rewrite Definitions of Sex
The first openly transgender staffer to The White House, Raffi Freedman–Gurspan, outlines how Americans can stand up to a White House plan to rewrite...
5 Issues to Watch as a result of Tuesday’s elections
As the nation turned out to the ballot box in record numbers for the November midterm elections…
…the world watched in awe as Americans were pit...
What the City of Chicago is Doing to Re-Claim the American Dream
Chicago, immigrants, and American identity…
Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel has stood up to anyone who tries to point at a finger at an immigrant in ...
How the Republican Party Courts College Campuses
Ahead of the November 6th elections, executive director of the College Republican National Committee (CRNC) Ted Dooley joins Vikrum Aiyer. on locatio...
What Jamal Khashoggi’s Murder Means for Free Expression in the United States
Politico’s Daniel Lippman and seasoned investigative journalist Tim Burger join the pod to discuss what the gruesome death of Saudi Arabian journalist...
What the hell is blockchain? – with Sam Cassat, Chief Strategy Officer of Consensys
How blockchain could transform the world…
As revolutions in technology continue to change the way we interact with the world, perhaps no one too...
Keeping the American Promise – with Todd Schulte of FWD.US
Has our broken immigration and criminal justice systems locked too many people out from the American dream?
Todd Schulte, President of FWD.us, a...
Does the Gain of a Supreme Court Justice Mean A Loss for the Court?
Brett Kavanaugh is now Associate Justice Kavanaugh.
What does this controversial addition to the Supreme Court of the United States mean for the...
Why build prisons when you can build people? – With Stanley Richards of The Fortune Society
How do we train and upscale workers for the 21st Century? And how can an entire pipeline of 7 million formerly incarcerated workers, seeking to be pro...
Does America Care About Science? – with Kumar Garg
Kumar Garg on whether America can maintain its leading edge in scientific discovery if it routinely bucks the very investments & truths that have been...
Run for Something – with Congressional Candidate Lauren Baer
Mom, Wife, and former foreign policy advisor to the Secretary of State jumps into a race for Congress…
Lauren Baer joins the pod to reflect on w...
Stopping Sexual Misconduct in Silicon Valley – with the co-founders of #MOVINGFORWARD
A year of momentum for movements like #MovingForward…
If 2017 was the year of revelations that roiled the entertainment, news, and tech industry...
Why Isn’t America Standing Up for Breastfeeding?
For as long as there have been babies, there have been debates over how to feed them…
Earlier this week, it was revealed that the Trump administ...
Democrats running as Republicans – with Jonathan Trichter
When Americans vote, many positions on the ballot don’t even make sense to us. A superintendent? A comptroller? However vague they may sound, these “d...
Trump Impersonating Trump
The #1 Donald Trump Impersonator in the World, John Di Domenico, on how comedy, satire, and late night TV is dividing, uniting, and trolling America…<...
Here’s How You Can Help Fight Family Separation at the Border
Fighting Family Separation at the Border…
While The White House & Congress must act to rescind a policy of cruelty playing at on America’s borde...
Are Children Missing at the Border? – with Debbie Nathan of The Intercept
Bleeding America’s spirit of inclusivity…
Immigrants seeking asylum at the US border are being separated from their children en masse due to new...
Do Fashion Models Need a Gender Identity?
Vogue Model, and Instagram celebrity, Richie Shazam Khan joins the pod for a reflection during PRIDE month on how gender non-conformity on the fashion...
Why it Matters: The White House Disinvited The Philadelphia Eagles
At 4pm on June 4th, 2018 — a Monday — the White House issued a statement from the President, and it said:
“The Philadelphia Eagles are unable t...
SPECIAL ELECTION DAY COVERAGE: California’s Democratic Primary – with Eric Bauman
California Democratic Party Chairman Eric Bauman discusses how the state of California’s primaries will shape the future of the nation and reclaim Ame...
Are America’s Schools Still Segregated? – with Dennis Parker of the ACLU
The ACLU‘s Director the Racial Justice Program, Dennis Parker, reflects with host Vikrum Aiyer, on the 64th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education...
Kneeling with the NFL – with Michel Faulkner, NFL Alumni Association NY Chapter President
Head of the NFL Alumni Association’s New York Chapter, and former NY Jets footballer, Michel Faulkner, debates the NFL’s decision penalizing players w...
Data privacy, consumer rights, and governance in the wake of Facebook and Cambridge Analytica
Whistleblower Brittany Kaiser and information privacy legal expert Cameron Russell join MouthMedia Network CEO Rob Sanchez for a wide-ranging discussi...