America – Green and Red Podcast

Meathead’s America: Rob Reiner’s contribution to 70s political culture

December 20, 2025Uncategorized

The 1970s was the decade that changed the television landscape forever dealing with issues of race, gender, sexuality to the war in Vietnam. No show broke the barriers of turning…

Civil Rights Attorney Ron Kuby on Flag Burning: “This executive order means absolutely nothing”

September 8, 2025politics

In 1989, and again 1990, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled flag burning a First Amendment protected action. In 2025, Trump has issued an executive order banning flag burning. Trump's executive…

Andrew Bacevich on American Exceptionalism

September 30, 2021Foreign Policy, Uncategorized

A clip from our larger interview with the great critic of American Empire Andrew Bacevich, a professor emeritus and retired army colonel--we talked about the pernicious effects of American Exceptionalism,…

From Clinton to Trump: America in Tatters.

November 20, 2020Uncategorized

The latest U.S. history lecture from Green and Red Podcast co-host, and University of Houston history professor, Bob Buzzanco.

From Clinton to Trump: America in Tatters. He begins with the roaring 90s: Clinton and the “New Democrats”; Welfare and Crime “reform”; Right-Wing Hardball; Globalization and Financialization.

And the goes into the George W. Bush and Barack Obama eras–Tax Cuts and Patriot Act; Obama and the Great Recession; saving Wall Street; Obamacare; Black Lives Matter.