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  • Atlantic writer and Naval War College Professor Emeritus Tom Nichols offers perspective on the prospects of a US Military under the command of an authoritarian White House.
  • This week on Eastern Standard: A steady decline in state funding for higher education has consequences.
  • Former President Trump and his allies have made no secret of their plans, should he be returned to the White House, to move the country away from traditional American democracy and toward an authoritarian style of governing. What would that mean?
  • The science behind the art: a study of effective workplace apologies flips gender styles. Kentucky’s ongoing battle against cancer.
  • On this week’s Eastern Standard:We get some help for our heads as holiday pressures mount. University of Kentucky psychologists Michelle Martel and Matt Southward offer suggestions.
  • From her chronicle of the spectacular collapse of AppHarvest, reporter Austyn Gaffney walks us through her in-depth reporting on dangerous working conditions, lofty, unfulfilled promises, and investors left with little to nothing.
  • The “Red Scare” of the fifties came late to Kentucky. Lexington Herald-Leader government accountability reporter John Cheves gives details of his article about the Kentucky UnAmerican Activities Committee of the late sixties.
  • Kentucky has a “Kid Workforce” labor crisis. It’s the focal point of the essay that begins Kentucky Youth Advocates’ 33rd Annual “Kids Count Data Book.”
  • Gurney Norman, master of the short story, and outspoken advocate for the people of Appalachian Kentucky, was raised in the Alais Coal Camp in Perry County, Kentucky, and educated at the Robinson School in nearby Blackey, Kentucky, the University of Kentucky and Stanford University.
  • The lockdown and isolation conditions of the pandemic worsened existing student mental health issues and introduced others.
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