• Jacquelyn Gamino, Ph.D., Maria Johnson, and host Amanda Schnetzer discuss building healthy teens on Perspectives Matter.

Building Healthy Teens (4001)

May 19, 2024|Categories: Featured Program, Featured-Home, Human Interest, Mental Health, Recent Programs|Tags: , , , , , , |0 Comments

Have you ever been around a teenager and had the sense that they “think with their feelings?” There’s a lot of truth to this.

  • Experts Sandra Bond Chapma, Ph.D., and Audette Rackley, M.S., CCC-SLP, discuss brain health with host Amanda Schnetzer on the Perspectives Matter set.

How Healthy Is Your Brain? (3026)

May 12, 2024|Categories: Current News, Featured Program, Featured-Home, Recent Programs|Tags: , , , , , , |0 Comments

Did you know, your brain health is measurable? Join host Amanda Schnetzer and expert guests Sandra Bond Chapman, Ph.D., and Audette Rackley, M.S., CCC-SLP, to discuss brain health measurability and improvement.

  • Graphic showing Xavier Vidal-Medina, Jim Falk, Host, and Duncan Wood (left to right) discussing the future of Mexican politics and how changes may impact the U.S.-Mexico relationship on Perspectives Matter.

The Mexico Presidential Elections: How Will They Impact U.S.-Mexico Relations (3025)

April 28, 2024|Categories: Current News, Featured Program, Featured-Home, Global Affairs, Human Interest, Politics, Recent Programs|Tags: , , , , , , |0 Comments

Join us for a rousing discussion on the future of Mexican politics and how changes may impact the U.S.-Mexico relationship.

  • Graphic showing Jim Hollifield, host Jim Falk, and David Bier (left to right) discussing Immigration on Perspectives Matter - Border Security and Economics: A Worldwide Challenge.

Border Security and Economics: A Worldwide Challenge (3022)

April 21, 2024|Categories: Current News, Featured Program, Featured-Home, Global Affairs, Human Interest, Politics, Recent Programs|Tags: , , , , , , |0 Comments

What motivates a migrant to risk his or her life or that of their family to leave their country for an unknown destination.? As opposition grows to undocumented migration, what options do governments have to address this issue?

  • Screenshot of Yoram Solomon, Ph.D., Christian Hart, Ph.D., and host Jim Cathcart discussing the psychology of lying on the set of Perspectives Matter.

Why People Lie: The Science, Psychology & Consequences, PART 2 (3018)

April 14, 2024|Categories: Current News, Featured Program, Featured-Home, Human Interest, Recent Programs|Tags: , , , , , , , |0 Comments

When can we trust each other? How does lying affect society? Why do people lie when they don’t need to? See what our experts have to say.

  • Graphic showing Richard Epstein and host Dennis McCuistion discussing the Supreme Court on Perspectives Matter.

The Supreme Court: Its Power, Influence and Impact (3020)

March 31, 2024|Categories: Current News, Featured Program, Featured-Home, Politics, Recent Programs|Tags: , , , , , , |0 Comments

Join host Dennis McCuistion and Richard A. Epstein for a discussion on the Supreme Court: its power, influence, and impact on our lives.

  • Graphic showing Andrew Dressler, Ph.D., Joni Carswell, Amanda Schnetzer, and Peter Girard discussing extreme weather on Perspectives Matter.

Is Extreme Weather Here to Stay? (3012)

March 24, 2024|Categories: Featured Program, Featured-Home, Politics, Recent Programs|Tags: , , , , , , |0 Comments

Extreme weather events are making climate an increasingly urgent topic of conversation in halls of power, in board rooms, in research labs, and at dinner tables around the world.

  • Graphic showing David Walker and Dennis McCuistion.

Will Federal Government Debt Destroy the Dollar? (3016)

February 18, 2024|Categories: Featured Program, Featured-Home, Politics, Recent Programs|Tags: , , , , , , |0 Comments

When Ronald Reagan took office in 1981, the total direct federal debt accumulated since 1789 was less than one trillion dollars. Today that debt is 34 trillion on its way to 50 trillion.

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National Defense Briefing Series Event

February 14, 2024|Categories: Featured-Home, Press Release|Tags: , |0 Comments

The recent National Defense Briefing Series, presentation of the Sam Johnson Defender of Freedom award to Mr. Darcy Anderson, to which I was invited, was a memorable one for many reasons. Several of our McCuistion Perspectives Matter television guests were at the event, including Jeff (Jeffrey) Engel, founding director of the Center for Presidential History at Southern Methodist University

  • Graphic showing screenshots of Jeffrey Singer, Vanda Felbab-Brown, and Jim Falk on the McCuistion background

The Geopolitics of Our Border Drug Trade (3009)

January 28, 2024|Categories: Featured Program, Featured-Home, Politics, Recent Programs|Tags: , , , , , , |0 Comments

Joining Host Jim Falk on the controversial topic of how China and Mexico may be enabling the production and importation of illicit drugs into the United States and what options are being proposed to counter this growing problem are two guests who look at this issue very differently.

  • Perspectives Matter #3010 - Can We Fix Our Immigration Policies? episode graphic with headshots of Dany Bahar, David J. Bier, Lora Ries and Jim falk on a Blue McCuistion background above the text

Can We Fix Our Immigration Policies? (3010)

January 21, 2024|Categories: Featured Program, Featured-Home, Human Interest, Politics, Recent Programs|Tags: , , , , , , , |0 Comments

In our discussion, we ask: What percentage of the total U.S. population is made up of immigrants and how much has it fluctuated in recent years? As America’s birth rate drops, should we or should we not increase the number of immigrants allowed into the country? Is the United States becoming less competitive for immigrant workers, particularly high-skilled? See what our experts have to say on Perspectives Matter - Can We Fix Our Immigration Policies?

  • Graphic showing guests Jaquelyn Gamini, Michele Forbes, and Kacie Kelly with host Amanda Schnetzer beside the episode title, Our Youth’s Mental Health Crisis (3006)

Our Youth’s Mental Health Crisis (3006)

January 14, 2024|Categories: Featured Program, Featured-Home, Human Interest, Mental Health, Recent Programs|Tags: , , , , , , , |0 Comments

Emergency room visits for anxiety and depression are up nearly 30%. Suicide attempts for girls are up dramatically. More young people are reporting “persistent” feelings of sadness, hopelessness, and thoughts of suicide. So, what’s going on that is causing this? And what are potential solutions? Join us to learn more.

  • Graphic with Stephen Fagin and Dennis McCuistion talking on Perspectives Matter - The Sixth Floor Museum and the JFK 60th Anniversary

The Sixth Floor Museum and the JFK 60th Anniversary (3007)

November 19, 2023|Categories: Current News, Featured Program, Featured-Home, Global Affairs, Human Interest, Recent Programs|Tags: , , , , |0 Comments

Joining Dennis McCuistion to talk about the President’s legacy and how the Museum honors this history, is Stephen Fagin, the Sixth Floor Museum, Curator and Oral Historian, and author of Assassination Commemoration, JFK, and the Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza.