'On the Front Porch' hosts author Carol Graham to discuss the dramatic impact of hope -- or the lack of it

Why are there pockets in the United States with a striking number of "deaths of despair"? How is despair defined? What are some possible shifts in approach and policy that might taper and prevent the onset of despair?

This Thursday, March 14, at 4 p.m. E.T., Professor Carol Graham of the Brookings Institution will join Tony Pipa from Reimagine Rural and Brent Orrell of the American Enterprise Institute in a deep-dive discussion of her new book The Power of Hope: How the Science of Well-Being Can Save Us from Despair, which incorporates hope as a metric of economic and social well-being.

Register here to participate in person at AEI or online.

On Thursday, April 4 at 10 a.m. E.T., author, speaker and researcher Elizabeth Currid-Halkett will join On the Front Porch for a discussion of her book, The Overlooked Americans, which focuses on surprising successes in American small towns and how that influences the country. Register here to join the conversation.