03/22/2026: Elemental Crisis, Turning the Ship Around, The Dog Aging Project

About this episode

The episode covers the U.S. trade war with China, the decline of American shipbuilding, and a research initiative on aging diseases using dogs.

In what might be the ultimate front of the U.S. trade war with China, correspondent Jon Wertheim reports from the only active rare earth mine in the U.S., deep in the Mojave Desert near the California-Nevada border. Shipbuilding in the United States has been decimated over the decades by shortsighted policies and neglect. Today, the U.S. builds about three large cargo ships a year while China rolls out around 1,000. The Trump administration has called this a national security crisis and is making it a priority to revive the American shipbuilding industry. One solution comes from our ally South Korea. Hanwha, the Korean ship-making giant, is hoping to help resurrect the industry in the U.S. by buying and reviving the Philadelphia shipyard. Correspondent Lesley Stahl reports from Hanwha’s shipyards in Korea and Philadelphia. Progress in treating diseases of aging like Alzheimer's and other forms of dementia has been difficult, and a new research initiative finds dogs could help change that. Scientists are discovering the biology of aging in our canine companions has striking parallels to human aging. Our dogs develop many of the same diseases we do and have remarkably similar brain…

People in this episode

Hosts: Jon Wertheim, Lesley Stahl, Anderson Cooper

Topics covered

• U.S. trade war
• rare earth mining
• shipbuilding
• aging diseases
• Dog Aging Project

Keywords

• China
• shipyard
• Hanwha
• Alzheimer's
• dementia

Mentioned in this episode

Products: Dog Aging Project

Places: U.S., China, the Mojave Desert, California, the United States, South Korea, Philadelphia, Korea

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