Quirkyalone movement
Founder of the Quirkyalone movement and author of Quirkyalone: A Manifesto for Uncompromising Romantics
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Sasha Cagen
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FROM Sasha Cagen
Which Way, L.A.?
What Are the Consequences of Going Solo? Remember when living alone carried something of a stigma? According to the latest census , those days are gone. Nearly half of adult Americans are single and nearly a third of all households have just one resident. Thirty-one million Americans live alone, almost eight times as many as in 1950. Are all these "singletons," as they're called, happy and healthy, or lonely and isolated?
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Living Alone: What Are the Consequences of Going Solo? Remember when living alone carried something of a stigma? Well, according to the latest census , those days are gone. Nearly half of adult Americans are single and nearly a third of all households have just one resident. Thirty-one million Americans live alone, almost eight times as many as in 1950. Are all these "singletons," as they're called, happy and healthy, or lonely and isolated?
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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.