American Enterprise Institute
President of the American Enterprise Institute and author of Who Really Cares: The Surprising Truth about Compassionate Conservatism and The Conservative Heart: How to Build a Fairer, Happier, and More Prosperous America; former professor of Public Administration at Syracuse University
Politics, Prosperity and Charitable Giving Liberals favor income redistribution and the welfare state, so they must give more willingly to charity. That's what a professor at Syracuse University thought he would demonstrate when he began researching the subject. When his early findings proved otherwise, he thought he must be mistaken.
Trump's new look at civil rights and global warming President Trump is reportedly ready to pull the US out of the Paris Agreement on Climate Change. We look at the possible consequences. On the second half of the program, we hear about cuts in Obama-Era civil rights programs called for by the Trump Administration's first budget plan.
Who's to blame for the opioid crisis? Some of the lawyers who took on Big Tobacco are now going after Big Pharma. It’s all about the deadly epidemic of opioid use. Are the drug companies to blame? What about the users? Later, on today’s Talking Point: making sense of Britain’s upset election.
What happens when America retreats from the world? Is President Trump taking his "America First" agenda to extremes, withdrawing the country from the international stage on trade and climate change, distancing America from its traditional allies across the Atlantic and even threatening to physically isolate the country through the building of a wall along its southern border? León Krauze guest hosts.
