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Gov. Abbott is making water an emergency item. Sarah Schlessinger, the CEO of Texas Water Foundation, explains the Texas water problem and what can be done to secure water supplies to Texas' future.

A new technique for delivering radiation to glioblastoma brain tumors may allow doctors to use much higher doses while preserving healthy brain tissue. UT Health San Antonio's Andrew Brenner, MD, PhD, says this may give patients more time.

Host Bonnie Petrie speaks with Cherise Rohr-Allegrini, CEO of the San Antonio AIDS Foundation.

Poverty is big business in America. The federal government spends about $900 billion a year on programs that impact poor Americans, including antipoverty programs like Medicaid, affordable housing and subsidies. There is a vast web of entrenched companies that profit from regulating the lives of the poor with business models that depend on exploiting low-income Americans. The new book Poverty for Profit explains.

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President Trump signed an executive order ending the Biden EV mandate—but there never was a Biden EV mandate—there was support for helping switch to cleaner, cheaper and more reliable electric vehicles. Today the EV tax credits are still available. Is it too late for Trump to stop the transition to EVs? Wall Street Journal automotive reporter Mike Colias, author of the new book InEVitable: Inside the Messy, Unstoppable Transition to Electric Vehicles, says EVs are upending the auto industry, transforming economies, and even reshaping the roles vehicles play in our lives.

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Award-winning journalist Katherine Stewart talks about her new book: MONEY, LIES, AND GOD: Inside the Movement to Destroy American. She says we are witnessing an anti-democratic political movement in the U.S. take over the nation and dismantle it piece by piece. Huge concentrations of wealth are destabilizing the political system. There is the spread of weaponized disinformation, and using Christian Nationalism to mutate America. But it can be defeated.

More than six-million American adults are experiencing heart failure right now.

Imagine an America where health care is a right, climate change is being addressed, and social inequity is solved. These problems seem intractable in the United States, but other nations have found solutions that are working. The new book Another World Is Possible examines innovative programs that address public health, social services, climate change, housing, education, addiction, and more.