This week, Dr. John Logsdon, the founder of the Space Policy Institute at George Washington University's Elliot School of International Affairs, joins Abby in the classroom to help with her lesson plan on the Space Force. Professor Logsdon discusses the historical precedent for the Space Force, why we need this organization, and how it will function as the sixth branch of the United States Military. Keep up with Abby after class on Twitter: @AbbyHornacek Learn more about your ad choices. Visit p...
Nov 16, 2020•24 min
This week, Professor Carl Castro, Director of the University of Southern California's Center for Innovation and Research on Veterans and Military Families, joins Abby in the classroom to help with her lesson plan on Veterans Day. Professor Castro discusses the history of Veterans Day, the significance for those who have served and what Americans need to understand about Veterans as they honor them. Keep up with Abby after class on Twitter: @AbbyHornacek Learn more about your ad choices. Visit po...
Nov 09, 2020•26 min
This week, Kristen Soltis Anderson, co-founder of Echelon Insights and Washington Examiner columnist, joins Abby in the classroom to help with her lesson plan. Kristen discusses why we have the electoral college, how it impacts our elections at large, and the arguments for and against this system. Keep up with Abby after class on Twitter: @AbbyHornacek Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Nov 02, 2020•21 min
This week, Lesley Bannatyne, an American Halloween author whose work has been featured on the History Channel and in National Geographic, joins Abby in the classroom to help with her lesson plan. Lesley discusses the origins of Halloween in Celtic and Christian tradition, how Halloween has evolved through American history and what this holiday can teach us about our modern times. Keep up with Abby after class on Twitter: @AbbyHornacek Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/ad...
Oct 26, 2020•23 min
FOX Nation host Abby Hornacek takes a closer look at the topics and buzz words you find your friends and coworkers using to sound intelligent. Each week Abby and her expert guests will tackle the topics we take for granted and help to explain the roots and meanings behind them. This week, Tom Bevan, co-founder and president of RealClearPolitics,joins Abby in the classroom to help with her lesson plan. Tom discusses what a swing state is, how a states' political affiliation may or may not change ...
Oct 19, 2020•26 min
FOX Nation host Abby Hornacek takes a closer look at the topics and buzz words you find your friends and coworkers using to sound intelligent. Each week Abby and her expert guests will tackle the topics we take for granted and help to explain the roots and meanings behind them. This week, FOX Business Network Correspondent, Susan Li, joins Abby in the classroom to help with her lesson plan. Susan discusses the role venture capital plays for businesses, what VCs look for while investing, and how ...
Oct 12, 2020•18 min
FOX Nation host Abby Hornacek takes a closer look at the topics and buzz words you find your friends and coworkers using to sound intelligent. Each week Abby and her expert guests will tackle the topics we take for granted and help to explain the roots and meanings behind them. This week, FOX News State Department Correspondent, Rich Edson, joins Abby in the classroom to help with her lesson plan. Rich discusses how the United Nations began, the impact the UN has had on international affairs thr...
Oct 05, 2020•27 min
FOX Nation host Abby Hornacek takes a closer look at the topics and buzz words you find your friends and coworkers using to sound intelligent. Each week Abby and her expert guests will tackle topics we take for granted and help to explain the roots and meanings behind them. This week, FOX News Congressional Correspondent, Chad Pergram joins Abby in the classroom to help with her lesson plan. Chad discusses what will happen on Capitol Hill now that President Trump has named Judge Amy Coney Barret...
Sep 28, 2020•28 min
FOX Nation host Abby Hornacek takes a closer look at the topics and buzz words you find your friends and coworkers using to sound intelligent. Each week Abby and her expert guests will tackle topics we take for granted and help to explain the roots and meanings behind them. This week Sarah Bryner, Director of Research & Strategy at the Center For Responsive Politics, joins Abby in the classroom to help with her lesson plan. Sarah discusses what super PACs are, how they came about, patriotism...
Sep 21, 2020•26 min
FOX Nation host Abby Hornacek takes a closer look at the topics and buzz words you find your friends and coworkers using to sound intelligent. Each week Abby and her expert guests will tackle topics we take for granted and help to explain the roots and meanings behind them. This week Andrew Och, the author of "Unusual For Their Time: On The Road With America's First Ladies," joins Abby in the classroom to help with her lesson plan. Andrew discusses the role of the first lady, how this role has e...
Sep 14, 2020•38 min
FOX Nation host Abby Hornacek takes a closer look at the topics and buzz words you find your friends and coworkers using to sound intelligent. Each week Abby and her expert guests will tackle topics we take for granted and help to explain the roots and meanings behind them. This week Daniel Clark, The CEO of BrainFM, joins Abby in the classroom to help with her lesson plan. Dan discusses the purpose of functional music, how it can enhance our ability to sleep, focus, and relax, and the science b...
Sep 07, 2020•32 min
FOX Nation host Abby Hornacek takes a closer look at the topics and buzz words you find your friends and coworkers using to sound intelligent. Each week Abby and her expert guests will tackle topics we take for granted and help to explain the roots and meanings behind them. This week Paul M. Sutter, a research professor in astrophysics at the Institute for Advanced Computational Science at Stony Brook University and a guest researcher at the Flatiron Institute, joins Abby in the classroom to hel...
Aug 31, 2020•31 min
FOX Nation host Abby Hornacek takes a closer look at the topics and buzz words you find your friends and coworkers using to sound intelligent. Each week Abby and her expert guests will tackle topics we take for granted and help to explain the roots and meanings behind them. This week John Hudak, Deputy Director for the Center for Effective Public Management and Senior Fellow of Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution joins Abby in the classroom to help with her lesson plan. John discusse...
Aug 24, 2020•24 min
FOX Nation host Abby Hornacek takes a closer look at the topics and buzz words you find your friends and coworkers using to sound intelligent. Each week Abby and her expert guests will tackle topics we take for granted and help to explain the roots and meanings behind them. This week, Jane Hampton Cook, presidential historian and the author of Resilience on Parade: Short Stories from Suffragists and Women’s Battle for the Vote, joins Abby in the classroom to help with her lesson plan. Jane discu...
Aug 17, 2020•31 min
FOX Nation host Abby Hornacek takes a closer look at the topics and buzz words you find your friends and coworkers using to sound intelligent. Each week Abby and her expert guests will tackle topics we take for granted and help to explain the roots and meanings behind them. This week, Michelle Lambright Black, Credit Expert for Slickdeals and professional credit writer, joins Abby in the classroom to help with her lesson plan. Michelle explains the importance of building good credit, how credit ...
Aug 10, 2020•22 min
FOX Nation host Abby Hornacek takes a closer look at the topics and buzz words you find your friends and coworkers using to sound intelligent. Each week Abby and her expert guests will tackle topics we take for granted and help to explain the roots and meanings behind them. This week, Daron Shaw, Jr. Chair of State Politics at the University of Texas at Austin and member of the FOX News Decision Desk team joins Abby in the classroom to help with her lesson plan. Daron explains how polling works,...
Aug 03, 2020•33 min
FOX Nation host Abby Hornacek takes a closer look at the topics and buzz words you find your friends and coworkers using to sound intelligent. Each week Abby and her expert guests will tackle topics we take for granted and help to explain the roots and meanings behind them. What was The Dream Team? This week, 11-Time NBA All-Star and NBA Hall-of-Famer, Charles Barkley, joins Abby in the classroom to help with her lesson plan. Barkley discusses his experience playing power forward on the 1992 Uni...
Jul 27, 2020•31 min
FOX Nation host Abby Hornacek takes a closer look at the topics and buzz words you find your friends and coworkers using to sound intelligent. Each week Abby and her expert guests will tackle topics we take for granted and help to explain the roots and meanings behind them. This week, Daniel A. Piazza, Chief Curator at the Smithsonian National Postal Museum, joins Abby in the classroom to help with her lesson plan. Daniel discusses the history of the United States Postal System, the role the sys...
Jul 20, 2020•29 min
FOX Nation host Abby Hornacek takes a closer look at the topics and buzz words you find your friends and coworkers using to sound intelligent. Each week Abby and her expert guests will tackle topics we take for granted and help to explain the roots and meanings behind them. This week, Secretary David Bernhardt, The 53rd Secretary of The U.S. Department of the Interior, joins Abby in the classroom to help with her lesson plan. Secretary Bernhardt discusses his agency's role in the management of t...
Jul 13, 2020•30 min
FOX Nation host Abby Hornacek takes a closer look at the topics and buzz words you find your friends and coworkers using to sound intelligent. Each week Abby and her expert guests will tackle topics we take for granted and help to explain the roots and meanings behind them. This week, Professor Peter S. Onuf, the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation Professor of History, Emeritus, at the University of Virginia joins Abby for part two of their conversation on the Declaration of Independence. Prof...
Jul 06, 2020•27 min
FOX Nation host Abby Hornacek takes a closer look at the topics and buzz words you find your friends and coworkers using to sound intelligent. Each week Abby and her expert guests will tackle topics we take for granted and help to explain the roots and meanings behind them. This week, Professor Peter S. Onuf, the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation Professor of History, Emeritus, at the University of Virginia, joins Abby in the classroom to help with her lesson plan. Professor Onuf discusses ho...
Jun 29, 2020•26 min
FOX Nation host Abby Hornacek takes a closer look at the topics and buzz words you find your friends and coworkers using to sound intelligent. Each week Abby and her expert guests will tackle topics we take for granted and help to explain the roots and meanings behind them. This week, Michele Roberts, Executive Director of the National Basketball Players Association, joins Abby in the classroom to help with her lesson plan. Roberts discusses the role of players associations and their impact on p...
Jun 22, 2020•33 min
FOX Nation host Abby Hornacek takes a closer look at the topics and buzz words you find your friends and coworkers using to sound intelligent. Each week Abby and her expert guests will tackle topics we take for granted and help to explain the roots and meanings behind them. This week, Herbert G. Ruffin, Department Chair of African American Studies at Syracuse University, joins Abby in the classroom to help with her lesson plan. Professor Ruffin explains the history of Juneteenth, how the holiday...
Jun 19, 2020•28 min
FOX Nation host Abby Hornacek takes a closer look at the topics and buzz words you find your friends and coworkers using to sound intelligent. Each week Abby and her expert guests will tackle topics we take for granted and help to explain the roots and meanings behind them. This week, U.S. Census Bureau Public Affairs Specialist & Spokesperson, Virginia Hyer, joins Abby in the classroom to help with her lesson plan. Virginia explains the history of the decennial census in the United States, ...
Jun 15, 2020•26 min
FOX Nation host Abby Hornacek takes a closer look at the topics and buzz words you find your friends and coworkers using to sound intelligent. Each week Abby and her expert guests will tackle topics we take for granted and help to explain the roots and meanings behind them. This week, University of Memphis Law Professor Steven Mulroy, joins Abby in the classroom to help with her lesson plan. Steven explains the powers of the states, how the states' jurisdiction is impacted by the federal governm...
Jun 08, 2020•23 min
FOX Nation host Abby Hornacek takes a closer look at the topics and buzz words you find your friends and coworkers using to sound intelligent. Each week Abby and her expert guests will tackle topics we take for granted and help to explain the roots and meanings behind them. This week, Charles Payne, host of FOX Business Network's Making Money with Charles Payne, joins Abby in the classroom to help with her lesson plan. Charles explains the history of the Dow Jones Industrial Average, what it ind...
Jun 01, 2020•25 min
FOX Nation host Abby Hornacek takes a closer look at the topics and buzz words you find your friends and coworkers using to sound intelligent. Each week Abby and her expert guests will tackle topics we take for granted and help to explain the roots and meanings behind them. This week, Geoffrey Wawro, Professor of Military History and Director of the Military History Center at the University of North Texas, joins Abby in the classroom to help with her lesson plan. Geoffrey explains the importance...
May 25, 2020•17 min
FOX Nation host Abby Hornacek takes a closer look at the topics and buzz words you find your friends and coworkers using to sound intelligent. Each week Abby and her expert guests will tackle topics we take for granted and help to explain the roots and meanings behind them. This week, FOX Senior Judicial Analyst, Judge Andrew Napolitano, joins Abby in the classroom to help with her lesson plan. Judge Napolitano explains FISA's history, why it's being reevaluated now, and what this legislation co...
May 18, 2020•22 min
FOX Nation host Abby Hornacek takes a closer look at the topics and buzz words you find your friends and coworkers using to sound intelligent. Each week Abby and her expert guests will tackle topics we take for granted and help to explain the roots and meanings behind them. This week, FOX Business Network Correspondent, Kristina Partsinevelos, joins Abby in the classroom to help with her lesson plan. Kristina explains the importance of supply chains, how they affect different industries, and how...
May 11, 2020•24 min
FOX Nation host Abby Hornacek takes a closer look at the topics and buzz words you find your friends and coworkers using to sound intelligent. Each week Abby and her expert guests will tackle topics we take for granted and help to explain the roots and meanings behind them. This week, FOX News Medical Contributor, Dr. Janette Nesheiwat, joins Abby in the classroom to help with her lesson plan. Dr. Nesheiwat explains how contract tracing works in our healthcare system, the challenges contact trac...
May 04, 2020•20 min
