Hi I'm Kai Rizdahl the host of How We Survive

It's a podcast from Marketplace. In 1986, before I was a journalist, I was flying for the Navy.

Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall.

It was the cold war and my first deployments were intercepting Russian bombers.

Today though, there's another threat out there, climate change.

This could be the warmest year on record.

Climate change is here.

Temperatures here are warming faster than anywhere on Earth.

And while the threat seems new, the Pentagon's been funding studies on climate change since the 1950s.

I think we will put our troops and our forces at higher risk if we don't recognize the impact of climate change.

This season, we go to the front lines of the climate crisis

to see how the military is preparing for the threat.

Listen to how we survive, wherever you get your podcasts.

Companies that tell employees whom to vote for.

I'm David Brancaccio. This election season we're looking at political

polarization specifically the role companies play in intensifying or easing

political divides. Today businesses that lean on their employees to vote for the candidates and policies

that are in the company's interest. It is legal and companies point out labor unions

do it too. Alex Hurtle Fernandez is a professor of international and public affairs at Columbia University and author of the book politics at work.

Professor, welcome.

Thanks so much for having me on.

I know an engineer in aerospace whose employer would send mass emails to the employees telling them how to vote in a way that would be best for the business unquote.

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