Economy Archives - KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show

It makes a plain case that farm country is not one fixed political tribe, and it does so by moving through history instead of leaning on a slogan.

Detroit's old promise of steady union work opens into a larger case against Trump's handling of the American auto industry and what it says about the country's industrial future.

The discussion links military waste with Saudi Arabia, Yemen, and the habits that keep poor policy in motion. Burt Cohen keeps the frame skeptical without losing balance, asking whether a Trump-led efficiency push, however erratic, could surface real Pentagon waste and even draw…

This conversation connects the American Revolution to money, trade, and the founders' economic interests, then carries that line through the Articles of Confederation, the Constitution, and the fights over interstate commerce.

US Powers Split on China Policy treats China as more than a slogan. It moves from campaign rhetoric and the Soviet comparison to the quieter pull of U.S. business interests, then widens into how public opinion and fear shape democracy.

Racial capitalism is framed here as a lived city-making process shaped by housing policy, disinvestment, incarceration, and Black wealth loss.

The episode treats the border less as a fixed problem than as a political story that gets repeated because it serves someone. Bert Cohen and guest John Washington track nativist fear from the First World War and the 1920s to the 2024 elections, making the case that the panic has…

The episode treats neoliberalism as a political order, not a throwaway economics label, and asks whether its grip is finally loosening. Bert Cohen keeps the frame on the larger shift, warning that culture war noise can hide how the post-1970s order has frayed.