Viewpoints Radio
Award-winning reporting on current issues featuring America's leading experts.
Leading up to each Viewpoints Radio program, every story is carefully selected and thoroughly researched to provide candid insight from the nation’s foremost experts. Through skillful copywriting and masterful studio production, the one-of-a-kind show covers timely topics aired to millions of listeners each week.
Kids today are absorbing far more than many adults realize - often before anyone has explained what it all means. We look at how parents can meet these moments with clarity, honesty, and care, even when the right words don’t come easily.
Once one of the world’s richest oil producers, Venezuela’s rise seemed unstoppable. We look at how politics, power struggles and global pressure led to the complete breakdown of this South American country. As the consequences still unfold, will Venezuela and its oil industry make a comeback in this globally unstable environment?
More than six million companion animals enter U.S. shelters each year and a little over four million are adopted. Sadly, shelters still rely on euthanizing when facilities are overcrowded and an animal has been there for a while. Author Laurie Zaleski has made it her life’s work to rescue hundreds of these unwanted pets and care for them on her farm. We …
Australia has become the first country to ban children under sixteen from social media, forcing platforms to block millions of young users overnight. Supporters say the move draws a long-overdue line around online harm while critics feel that it could push teens into riskier digital spaces with less oversight. As legal challenges mount and other countries …
We discuss the widespread use of fake or paid reviews on the internet and what the government is doing to try and crack down on this misinformation.
We speak with life planning expert Abby Schneiderman about the importance of organizing your life both on paper and online.
We examine how violence, silence, and selective memory shaped what generations of Americans were never taught.
We unpack why so many people feel disconnected and how you can put yourself out there and foster new and genuine friendships.
Two experts on plastic join us this week to shed some light on the problem and how we can each make a difference by changing our consumption habits and demanding improved policies that crack down on single-use plastics.
As Illinois moves forward with a new Clean Slate law, we examine how these barriers shape lives nationwide, disproportionately affect formerly incarcerated women and what record-clearing policies could change for the tens of millions of Americans stuck in limbo.
We explore why this imbalance persists and what real equity moving forward could look like.
In this intimate portrait of a Michigan family stretched to their limit, we explore what it really feels like to live without a safety net in today’s economy.
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