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Is the Presidency Broken?
Episode 44
“We are a president-obsessed nation, so much so that we undermine the very idea of our constitutional democracy,” writes John Dickerson in his May co…
7 years, 10 months ago
The Syria Disaster, Seven Years In
Episode 43
Long the crossroads of civilizations, Syria has now spent seven years as the proxy warzone of great powers. With over half a million dead and million…
7 years, 10 months ago
Becoming White in America
Episode 42
In her new book Futureface, Alex Wagner writes that “immigration raises into relief some of our most basic existential questions: Who am I? Where do …
7 years, 10 months ago
News Update: Who Could Tame Facebook?
Episode 41
As Atlantic staff writer Robinson Meyer recently wrote, Facebook “is currently embroiled in the worst crisis of trust in its 14-year history.” This w…
7 years, 10 months ago
Trumpocracy
Episode 40
“Trump gambled that Americans resent each other’s differences more than they cherish their shared democracy. So far that gamble has paid off,” writes…
7 years, 10 months ago
King Remembered
Episode 39
In his last speech, known to history as “I’ve Been to the Mountaintop,” Martin Luther King Jr. began by remarking on the introduction he’d been given…
7 years, 10 months ago
The Family Unit in a Divided Era
Episode 38
The family is where the forces that are driving Americans farther apart—political polarization, generational divides, class stratification, Facebook …
7 years, 11 months ago
Does America Have a Monopoly Problem?
Episode 37
“Politicians from both parties publicly worship the solemn dignity of entrepreneurship and small businesses. But by the numbers, America has become t…
7 years, 11 months ago
If We Could Learn From History
Episode 36
Discarding the limits on a leader's time in office is a classic autocrat's move. So when Xi Jinping began to clear a path for an indefinite term as C…
7 years, 11 months ago
Goodbye Black History Month, Hello Black Future
Episode 35
Moviegoers across America are filling theaters to see, as The Atlantic’s Adam Serwer describes it, “a high-tech utopia that is a fictive manifestatio…
7 years, 11 months ago