Mission: To launch a PODCAST to encapsulate and capture many of the unique ideas and activities at Northeast Lakeview College.
Format: A dialogue; host with one guest or multiple guests……
Frequency: once or twice a month (30 minutes or 45 minutes…. depending of the guest and the subject matter).
Host Mohsen K. Omar to have conversation, interviews about important issues that are germane to the students and community at large. PoliTalk EDU will serve as educational, and teaching life lessons at the political and educational arenas.
PoliTalk: Education - Discussions - Unlimited.
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North America at a Crossroads USMCA, Tariffs, Trade & the Midterm Elections Returning Guest: Dr. Michael S. Yoder
I am very pleased to welcome back Dr. Michael S. Yoder.Welcome to another episode of PoliTalk EDU with MK. Omar, where we bring politics, policy, and education together through conversations with scholars and experts.
My guest today is Dr. Michael S. Yoder, an economic geographer whose teaching and research have focused extensively on economic development, transportation, international trade, and the economic relationship between the United States and Mexico.
Dr. Yoder's scholarship has examined economic development and transportation across Texas and Mexico, including border regions, transportation corridors, ports, rail infrastructure, and the ways local and regional economies connect to the broader global economy.
He is also the author of Geographical Scale and Economic Development: Lessons Learned from Texas and Mexico, published in 2023, which draws on case studies from both sides of the border to explore economic development at different geographical scales.
Dr. Yoder is a returning guest to PoliTalk EDU, and I'm delighted to have him back as we discuss USMCA, tariffs, North American trade, and the political and economic questions facing the United States, Mexico, and Canada.
10 Apr 2026
Professor Michael S. Yoder: A discussion - Project 2026: Oil, War, and the USMCA Review: Trump, and the World Cup—Is the Texas-Mexico Corridor the Last Stand for the Global Economy?
Episode # 20The Episode Description / "The Big Picture"
"As the Iran conflict chokes the Strait of Hormuz and global sea lanes fall into chaos, the American economy has one remaining lifeline: the Texas-Mexico Corridor. But in 2026, that lifeline is under fire.
In this high-stakes episode, join Mohsen Omar and Dr. Michael S. Yoder as they navigate a perfect storm: the Trump Administration’s aggressive posture toward the USMCA review, the looming political heat of the 2026 Midterm Elections, and the unprecedented logistical 'stress test' of hosting a World Cup on a continent at a crossroads.
Dr. Michael S. Yoder
Brief Biography
Michael S. Yoder, Ph.D. is a geographer who received his doctorate at Louisiana State University in 1994 and his masters at The University of South Carolina in 1989. His early research addressed changing agricultural land-use patterns and related policy in the South Carolina Piedmont, Costa Rica’s Nicoya Peninsula, and the Mexican State of Yucatán. He is presently a Research Fellow in the Department of Geography and the Environment at The University of Texas at Austin. From 2008 to 2017 he was Associate Professor of Geography at the University of Central Arkansas, where he served as Director of the Master of Science in Community and Economic Development between 2010 and 2017. Most recently, he has researched industrial and transport geography in Northern Mexico and Texas, agricultural transportation, and economic development in small cities of Arkansas and South Texas. He is author of the book Geographical Scale and Economic Development: Lessons Learned from Texas and Mexico (Springer 2023).
14 Nov 2025
Professor Tom Paterson: Donald Trump and Presidential Power: Do We Need a New Theory? Talking Trump, Political Parties and other relevant political issues.
Tom Patterson is Bradlee Professor of Government and the Press at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government.
He is author of the recently published How America Lost Its Mind, which looks at the problem of misinformation. Earlier books include Out of Order, which examined the media’s political role and received the American Political Science Association’s Graber Award as the best book of the decade in political communication. Another is The Unseeing Eye, which looked at television’s impact on politics and was named by the American Association for Public Opinion Research as one of the leading books on public opinion of the past half century.
A Minnesota native, he earned his PhD at the University of Minnesota, where he studied after serving in the US Army Special Forces in Vietnam.
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