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Will Trump And Biden Debate This Election? Does It Matter?
Diane Rehm: On My Mind - May 03, 2024 08:32 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 2.2K ratingsWill Biden and Trump take the stage? Last week President Biden said he would be willing to debate Donald Trump ahead of this year’s election in November. This came after months of back and forth between the candidates. Biden’s answers had been coy regarding a face off, citing the “beh...
Can We Engineer Our Way Out Of Catastrophic Climate Change?
Diane Rehm: On My Mind - April 25, 2024 22:11 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 2.2K ratingsLast year was the hottest on record. 2024 is predicted to be another record year. Meanwhile, we are seeing the very real effects of our changing climate in more intense forest fires, and more severe and unpredictable weather. This has pushed the idea of geoengineering -- or deliberately...
A Call To Rethink American Leadership: "We Must Stop Outsourcing Responsibility For Our Democracy"
Diane Rehm: On My Mind - April 18, 2024 20:57 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 2.2K ratingsEddie S. Glaude Jr. has a message for Americans: it is time for ordinary people to take charge of our democracy. An African American Studies professor at Princeton, Glaude argues that we have outsourced our responsibility for creating a just society to the political class for too long ...
A New Focus On Menopause And Women's Health After 40
Diane Rehm: On My Mind - April 11, 2024 21:43 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 2.2K ratingsOnce a taboo topic, menopause has recently come out of the shadows. Media headlines declare it is “having a moment,” as celebrities like Michelle Obama, Drew Barrymore and Oprah have shared their experiences with “the change.” Even Washington is paying attention. In March, President B...
How Trump Is Using Christianity To Power The MAGA Movement
Diane Rehm: On My Mind - April 04, 2024 21:13 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 2.2K ratingsDonald Trump has enjoyed strong support from white Evangelical Christians since his first run for the presidency. But recently, he has made a specific brand of Christianity a centerpiece of his campaign. He repeatedly casts himself as a messiah figure, even comparing his legal troubles...
Donald Trump's Family History With Alzheimer's Disease
Diane Rehm: On My Mind - March 28, 2024 21:15 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 2.2K ratingsDonald Trump has made cognitive decline a major issue in this year’s presidential race. On the campaign trail he accuses Biden of impairment, while boasting of his own brilliance. Yet, this line of attack is nothing new. He has long accused rivals of mental frailty, weaponizing the iss...
How to Implement Earlier Hepatitis B Treatment
CCO Medical Specialties Podcast - March 26, 2024 18:30 - 21 minutesIn this episode, Mark S. Sulkowski, MD, FIDSA, FAASLD; Tatyana Kushner, MD, MSCE; Paul Y. Kwo, MD; and patient advocate Jacki Chen, PhD, consider barriers and solutions for more expansive HBV treatment in the United States. Topics include: Patient subgroups to consider for treatment outside gui...
Trump's Money Troubles
Diane Rehm: On My Mind - March 21, 2024 21:21 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 2.2K ratingsDonald Trump owes the state of New York almost half-a-billion dollars in fines. This stems from a civil fraud suit that found the Trump Organization engaged in a decades-long conspiracy to lie about the value of their assets. A deadline to pay is looming and his lawyers say the former ...
How Old Is Too Old? Age And The 2024 Election
Diane Rehm: On My Mind - March 14, 2024 21:50 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 2.2K ratingsHow old is too old to be president? It’s a question many Americans are asking as Joe Biden and Donald Trump face off for the office. President Biden is 81. Over the last four years, his hair has thinned, his gait has stiffened. And the media, not to mention his opponent, have pounced o...
The Art of Multidisciplinary Care for Patients With Metabolic Dysfunction–Associated Steatohepatitis
CCO Medical Specialties Podcast - March 13, 2024 16:50 - 29 minutesIn this episode, Arun B. Jesudian, MD, and Mazen Noureddin, MD, MHSc, discuss the expert-informed clinical pathway for the multidisciplinary care of patients with MASLD or MASH, current and emerging therapeutics, and management optimization strategies. Presenters: Arun B. Jesudian, MD Associa...
What Trump’s Legal Victories Say About The Role Of The Courts In Our Democracy
Diane Rehm: On My Mind - March 07, 2024 21:56 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 2.2K ratingsThose who see Donald Trump as a threat to democracy have taken solace in the cases piling up against him. There were civil cases that carried massive financial penalties. There were four criminal cases whose trials were set to take place before the November election. And there was the ...
The Human Cost Of The War In Gaza
Diane Rehm: On My Mind - February 29, 2024 22:32 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 2.2K ratingsAs the conflict between Israel and Hamas rages on, the level of human suffering in the Gaza Strip has come into clearer focus. The death toll in Gaza surpassed 30,000 this week, according to the Gazan health ministry. The United Nations estimates that 2 million Palestinians in the terr...
The Death Of Alexei Navalny And The Future Of Russia
Diane Rehm: On My Mind - February 22, 2024 21:54 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 2.2K ratingsLast week the Russian government announced the death of opposition leader Alexei Navalny, the Kremlin’s harshest and most well-known critic. For more than a decade, Navalny campaigned against the corruption of Vladimir Putin and his allies. He ran for mayor of Moscow, crisscrossed the ...
The Supreme Court, Donald Trump And The 2024 Election
Diane Rehm: On My Mind - February 15, 2024 23:16 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 2.2K ratingsLast week Supreme Court justices heard arguments about whether the state of Colorado could ban Donald Trump from the ballot. This week, Trump petitioned the justices to temporarily block a decision by a federal appeals court regarding his claim of presidential immunity. “The real quest...
Breaking Down the Headlines: Addressing the Buzz Around Incretin-Based Therapies With Patients
CCO Medical Specialties Podcast - February 12, 2024 15:09 - 32 minutesIn this episode, Jennifer Green, MD, and Carol Hatch Wysham, MD, break down the latest headlines on incretin-based therapies and how to address these topics with patients. Their discussion includes: Beneficial effects beyond glycemic control Adverse events and how to manage them Non- or part...
The Fight Over Decriminalization In Oregon And The Future Of US Drug Policy
Diane Rehm: On My Mind - February 08, 2024 23:03 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 2.2K ratingsIn 2020 Oregon voters overwhelmingly passed a measure that decriminalized drug use. Since the law went into effect three years ago, homelessness in the state has increased, the rate of overdose deaths has risen sharply and the support for decriminalization has plummeted. Now, Oregon le...
The Threat Of Deepfakes In The 2024 Election
Diane Rehm: On My Mind - February 01, 2024 23:28 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 2.2K ratingsOver the last year, a leap in technology has put powerful generative AI tools in the hands of practically anyone with a computer. This means creating fake audio, images, and video has never been easier. “That’s a democratization of a technology that should terrify us,” says Hany Farid,...
Separating Fact From Politics In The Immigration Debate
Diane Rehm: On My Mind - January 26, 2024 04:56 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 2.2K ratingsA record surge of migrants at the U.S.- Mexico border has pushed politicians on both sides of the aisle to look for ways to ease pressure on what many consider to be an overloaded, out-of-date, and needlessly bureaucratic immigration system. Yet, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Molly...
What's Missing From Today's Immigration Debate
Diane Rehm: On My Mind - January 26, 2024 04:56 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 2.2K ratingsA record surge of migrants at the U.S.- Mexico border has pushed politicians on both sides of the aisle to look for ways to ease pressure on what many consider to be an overloaded, out-of-date, and needlessly bureaucratic immigration system. Yet, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Molly...
Paul Krugman Takes The Temperature Of "Bidenomics" And The U.S. Economy
Diane Rehm: On My Mind - January 18, 2024 23:20 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 2.2K ratingsIn poll after poll, voters around the country say their number one issue is the economy. Which should be good news for President Biden as we approach the November election. The job market is strong, the stock market is up, and inflation is down. And yet, a December 2023 Gallup poll, sh...
How To Get Kids To Return To Class – And Stay There
Diane Rehm: On My Mind - January 11, 2024 22:11 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 2.2K ratingsMillions of American children are regularly skipping class. It is a problem educators have faced for years, but the issue has gotten much worse since the pandemic. Today, some estimate that nearly one in three students are “chronically absent,” meaning they miss more than 10 percent o...
A Look Ahead To The Issues, Questions And Politics Of The 2024 Election
Diane Rehm: On My Mind - January 04, 2024 22:48 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 2.2K ratingsIn less than two weeks, the Iowa Caucus will kick off an election year like no other. Donald Trump leads his Republican rivals by nearly 50 percentage points. Yet, he has been barred from the primary ballot in two states and faces legal challenges to his candidacy in more than a dozen ...
A Conversation With Bishop Mariann Budde About How We Learn To Be Brave
Diane Rehm: On My Mind - December 28, 2023 13:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 2.2K ratingsA note from Diane: For my last interview of 2023, I bring you a special conversation with Mariann Edgar Budde, Episcopal Bishop of Washington -- and my faith leader. She joined me for the December edition of the Diane Rehm Book Club to discuss her work titled "How We Learn to Be Brave....
How to Implement Earlier Hepatitis B and Hepatitis Delta Screening
CCO Medical Specialties Podcast - December 22, 2023 05:00 - 27 minutesIn this episode, Douglas Dieterich, MD, leads a panel discussion with Camilla S. Graham, MD, MPH, and Robert Wong, MD, MS, to consider advantages and barriers to universal screening for chronic HBV infection and universal HDV screening in adults with HBV in the United States. Topics include: Up...
Understanding The 14th Amendment Case Against Donald Trump
Diane Rehm: On My Mind - December 21, 2023 21:42 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 2.2K ratingsWill the 14th Amendment prevent Donald Trump from running for president? It’s an idea that has gone from a longshot hope of liberal activists, to a buzzed about theory among respected legal scholars to a very real threat to Trump’s candidacy. In a bombshell decision earlier this week ...
Understanding Anti-Zionism And Antisemitism
Diane Rehm: On My Mind - December 14, 2023 22:09 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 2.2K ratingsCan you be anti-Zionist without being antisemitic? In other words, can you question the actions -- or existence -- of Israel without being seen as prejudiced against Jewish people? As Israel’s bombardment of Gaza continues, this question, that at one time seemed merely academic, has sp...
What Might A Second Trump Presidency Look Like?
Diane Rehm: On My Mind - December 07, 2023 22:00 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 2.2K ratingsNot long ago, the idea that Donald Trump could return to the White House seemed like a MAGA-fueled fantasy. With his legal troubles piling up, Ron DeSantis surging, and President Biden notching legislative successes, a Trump victory appeared out of reach. Not anymore. And so, the quest...
Heat Pumps, Electric Vehicles And The Push Toward Net-Zero Emissions
Diane Rehm: On My Mind - November 30, 2023 21:58 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 2.2K ratingsThe annual United Nations climate conference, or COP 28, begins in Dubai this week. A big topic on people’s minds: how countries are doing on their pledges to slash production of greenhouse gasses outlined in The Paris Agreement. The consensus is ... not great. On this episode of On M...
Recipes From The French Kitchen Of "Bruno, Chief Of Police"
Diane Rehm: On My Mind - November 22, 2023 14:30 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 2.2K ratingsIn 2008 journalist Martin Walker published the first of his Bruno, Chief of Police novels. Fifteen books later, the internationally bestselling series continues to delight readers with murder, mystery -- and delicious food. Walker has called the books a love letter to his adopted home ...
Israel And Gaza: “We’re In A Period Of Grief”
Diane Rehm: On My Mind - October 12, 2023 19:05 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 2.2K ratingsOn day six of the war between Israel and Hamas, the Israeli military continued a devastating bombardment of the Gaza Strip, with airstrikes flattening entire neighborhoods. Forces also cut off supplies to the area as troops gathered for a likely ground invasion. This is, of course, in ...