Talking America 250 (Part 2). The conversation turns stateside as Ben Harris, an Englishman with a serious soft spot for America but experienced working in the UK Parliament, walks through his viral essay on American exceptionalism: freedom, abundance, and the strange magic of a country built on ideals instead of blood and soil. Andrew and Ben talk grocery store abundance vs. European scarcity, why American diversity actually works when almost nowhere else's does, and why unaccountable government and corruption, not ideology, are the real threats to what makes America work. They close out with some real optimism about the next generation, a few digs at UK politics (RIP Andy Burnham's honeymoon), and a proper 4th of July toast to the great, imperfect, ridiculous, beautiful experiment that is America.

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For the 4th of July and reviving an old tradition, Host Andrew sits down with our man in Westminster, Ben Harris, for the 4th of July episode. Ben (soccer jersey and all) breaks down why Britain can't build anything due to a planning system where NIMBYs hold veto power over housing, energy, even supermarkets, and how an entire generation of young Brits is getting crushed by it. They dig into the UK's revolving door of PMs, the "triple lock" pension time bomb, Starmer's political faceplant over winter fuel payments, the differences in free speech in the UK and America, structural issues and how politics not only can't fix them but makes the situation worse. Plus how the UK's issues connect back to America: same structural rot, just a bigger economy buying us time. If you want to understand why the UK feels stuck, and how America needs to pay attention to avoid the same traps, Ben Harris and Andrew Donaldson lay it out and more on Heard Tell

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Our friend Gabriella Hoffman of IWF, Outsider on the Inside Substack, District of Conservation Podcast, and a whole bunch of other stuff returns to talk about her policy focus work on data centers. We turn down the noise of the boom prophets and doom merchants to talk what data centers are and aren’t, where the policy needs to go for honest questions and reasonable regulation, historical lessons about energy and computers that affect where we are now and where we are going in the future, how conservation is a good angle to take on tech innovations, and much more.

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Live from the UK on a very busy news day Over Yonder Jack Rowlett joins Heard Tell to react to PM Keir Starmer going before the House of Commons for a two hour grilling on the Mandelson/Epstein scandal that has him fighting off calls to resign, the state of the US-UK relationship, economic issues in the UK, energy policy at the heart of what ailes England, what President Trump does and doesn’t affect in UK perception of the US, where Tories, Labour, Reform, Lib-Dems, and the SNP currently stand, and more!

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Host Andrew Donaldson is joined by economist Dr. Stephen Popick to talk proper economic terms from the headlines life inflation, The Fed, and more, how to understand the housing crisis, why it is a mistake to think economics runs of the political calendar, how AI is shaping the data behind the economy not just the economy itself, and much more.

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Host Andrew Donaldosn brings his unique perspective on AI and higher education as someone who has college-aged children, his own education, and currently being enrolled in community college

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President Trump announces a "ceasefire" in the Iran War, so we do instant reaction with The Independent's Washington Bureau Chief Eric Garcia, plus what to expect when congress gets back in town, and more on this Heard Tell Live from the Heard Tell Substack

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Andrew Donaldson gives his instant reaction after President Trump's press conference that started with the rescued airmen and ended with a hot mess of contradictory statements and yet more threats and moving deadlines over the Iran War and more.

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On trying to do better than the race to the bottom politics, social media, and news media have all decided to not only do, but monetize and make the dominate business model

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In football, they call it "cluster injuries" when multiple problems start to compile and cross streams to derail everything else the team might be doing. The same thing applies to politics, and the Trump administration has some self-induced cluster injuries starting to pile up. We break all that down and more on this Heard Tell Live from the Heard Tell Substack

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