The City Club of Cleveland Podcast

On October 26, the American Jewish Committee (AJC) released the results of its first State of Antisemitism in America survey. After sampling more than 1,300 Jewish adults and 1,000 general population adults across the nation, the AJC discovered the two groups' opinions and knowledge differ greatly on various aspects of antisemitism. Dan Elbaum and Holly R. Huffnagle explain.

For more than nine years in a row, Cuyahoga County's travel and tourism industry has logged record-setting growth rates in visitation. The travel and tourism industry was one of, if not, the hardest hit industry in the U.S. and the world. As states locked down to prevent the spread of the coronavirus, travel and tourism was at a virtual standstill. How can the travel and tourism industry survive until the pandemic subsides? A panel explains.

Regardless of which candidate prevails on November 3, the next President of the United States will inherit a complicated international landscape and mounting global problems. While this has been true for nearly every modern presidential election, what makes this election different is that Joe Biden and Donald J. Trump vastly disagree on almost every foreign policy issue: the World Health Organization (WHO) and the international response to the coronavirus pandemic; our changing relationships with China, Iran and North Korea; the Paris Climate Accord; the role of the U.S. in counterterrorism; and what American leadership in the world looks like.\r\n\r\nIf Joe Biden is elected President, many believe he will inherit a country that has abdicated its global leadership role and lost its claim to moral authority. While Biden pledges to restore relationships, experts believe it won\'t be easy. If President Donald J. Trump is re-elected, many believe his \"America First\" philosophy will further alienate the United States from its allies, stoke more intense conflict with adversaries, and reward and empower authoritarian leaders around the world. Which philosophy will prevail?\r\n\r\nJoin us as local experts discuss the future of American foreign policy under the next President.

Thomas F. Zenty, III plans to retire from University Hospitals (UH) at the end of January 2021, after serving nearly two decades as the system\'s Chief Executive Officer.\r\n\r\nDuring Mr. Zenty's tenure, the health system has grown to become an integrated network of 18 hospitals, more than 50 health centers and outpatient facilities, and over 200 physician offices in 16 counties throughout northern Ohio that care for more than one million patients annually. Reporting annual revenue of more than $4 billion, UH is also one of the largest employers in Northeast Ohio with 28,000 caregivers.\r\n\r\nSince Mr. Zenty took the UH helm in 2003, the healthcare industry has experienced dramatic change, including introduction of the Affordable Care Act, the shift from volume- to value-based care, an increased national focus on patient experience, innovations in diagnosis and treatment of diseases, utilization of telehealth and, most recently, quickly pivoting to respond to the coronavirus pandemic.\r\n\r\nJoin us as Mr. Zenty shares his experiences leading through tremendous change and where he thinks the future of healthcare is headed.

The stakes of democracy are always high. Yet, the 2020 election carries a weight that American voters have not felt in decades. Although so much is on the line, our two potential outcomes remain relatively unclear. In this post-election conversation, we unpack this critical moment in U.S. history and discuss how a tired nation will begin to rebuild after a year of hostility and division.

Our world is changing at an increasingly rapid pace as technology and artificial intelligence become more dominant in the workplace and the world. Most employers list soft skills as the most important things they look for in prospective team members. Most recently, we've all learned that success requires mastering the soft skills of adaptability, teamwork, critical thinking, communication, and resilience - all skills that make up the entrepreneurial mindset.\r\n\r\nJoin us to hear from a diverse group of Northeast Ohio leaders from higher education, corporations, and the nonprofit community to share perspectives on the skills and mindset people need to find success in the real world.

The old adage \"as Ohio goes, so goes the nation\" is repeated by political commentators and pundits during every election cycle. And for good reason: Ohio has accurately chosen the winner in 29 of the last 31 presidential elections, more than any other state.\r\n\r\nBut what makes Ohio so uniquely positioned to reflect the current identity of our country and accurately predict the outcomes of elections? Author David Giffels spent a year traveling 4,000 miles throughout the state, visiting people and places that offer valuable reflections of the national questions and concerns -- all as a historic Presidential election looms.\r\n\r\nIn this current climate, the question of America's identity has rarely been more urgent, and no American place has ever more reliably illuminated that identity than Ohio. Join us as Giffels shares stories from his journey and what he learned about the future of America from Ohioans.\r\n\r\nThe livestream will be available beginning at 12:30 p.m. Have questions? Tweet them at @TheCityClub or send a text to 330.541.5794.

As our lives are increasingly controlled and organized by smartphones and apps and our relationships maintained on social media, discussions about the impact of technology on our privacy, kids and families, race and gender roles, and democracy have taken on new urgency. What are the costs of this constant interaction with technology, both on an individual level and as a society?\r\n\r\nJames P. Steyer, founder & CEO of Common Sense Media, is all too familiar with these issues. Since 2003, Common Sense Media has helped parents and educators navigate the digital world with their kids and students. His new book, Which Side of History?: How Technology Is Reshaping Democracy and Our Lives, features a collection of essays from the country's leading writers and thinkers on how to improve approaches and policies related to technology.\r\n\r\nOne of these emerging conversations is the role technology can play in parenting. Julie Lythcott-Haims, the former Stanford University dean of freshmen, has spent the past 15 years drawing attention to the downsides of parental over-involvement, cumulating in her 2015 best-selling book How to Raise an Adult. In Which Side of History, Lythcott-Haims contributes an essay discusses the rise of stealth parenting, the use of surveillance and other technologies to monitor children in an attempt to keep them \"safe.\" But at what cost? Could those technologies, created in part to aid parents, actually hurt the parent-child relationship?\r\n\r\nJoin us as Steyer and Lythcott-Haims discuss technology\'s impact on modern parenting and parents\' ability to raise the next generation of independent and resilient adults.\r\n\r\nThe livestream will be available beginning at 5:30 p.m. Have questions? Tweet them at @TheCityClub or send a text to 330.541.5794.

The 2020 Presidential election arrives at one of the most contentious racial moments in the last half century. A 2019 Public Religion Research Institute /Atlantic magazine poll found that a majority of Americans (83 percent) believe the country is divided by race. An earlier survey by PRRI in 2018 found that two-thirds of adults who approve of President Trump's performance said that discrimination against whites has become a big problem. Ours is a time in which our national discourse increasingly echoes racially polarized Beltway political debates--from birthright citizenship and gerrymandering to DACA and voting rights and more. For young and old, the very ideals long synonymous with U.S. democracy are in flux. Likewise, notions such as voting rights and immigration, once seen bedrocks of American national identity, are threatened by outsized presidential power and the limitations of our system of checks and balances--both highlighted by the recent impeachment inquiry.\r\n\r\nAgainst this backdrop, Election 2020 is a historic election in which women voters, Black women in particular, alongside young voters 18-29 who will comprise the largest share of the electorate for the first time in U.S. history, are both expected to play a defining role.\r\n\r\nAdd to that the role technology will play in mediating Black access to the key instruments that govern our democratic process--from redistricting and the census count to online voter suppression and the expectation of even more foreign election interference in 2020 than ever--and our ability to think strategically and clearly about the intersection of racial justice, technology, and democracy will not only impact the election but will be defined by it.\r\n\r\nThis forum is concerned with the role popular culture and young voters can play in bridging these divides. Given the intersection of popular culture, celebrity, social media, and new technologies, it is past time that young voters bring these tools to bear as we re-imagine the future of our democracy.

Two of America's most recent presidents won the election, but lost the popular vote. When over 50 percent of U.S. voters oppose a candidate -- yet these candidates can still win public office -- it is no surprise that the nature of American voting is being called into question. In Maine, nine of the eleven gubernatorial elections between 1994 and 2014 were won with less than 50 percent of votes. That is, until Maine became the first state to implement ranked-choice voting (RCV) for statewide elections for Governor, state legislature, and Congress. They will also be the first state to implement RCV in the upcoming federal election.\r\n\r\nRCV allows voters to rank their choices among as many of the candidates as they want, and no candidate is declared the winner until someone receives more than 50 percent of the votes.\r\n\r\nSupporters of RCV believe the system provides more choices for voters; ensures that winners represent the will of the majority; and discourages negative campaigning. Critics point to the difficulty, confusion, and expense that would result from instituting a new national voting system, especially one that has been minimally tested.\r\n\r\nAs Americans brace for what is forecasted to be a contentious national election, what if there was another way to vote? Join us as we explore RCV with a panel of national experts.