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S4 E6: A New Deal

  • March 17, 2020
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The Great Depression presented a crisis not only for the U.S. economy, but for American democracy. President Franklin Roosevelt wanted to save the nation’s system of government, and its economic system, while reforming both. What…

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S4 E5: Feminism in Black and White

  • March 4, 2020
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People fighting for more democracy in the United States often have to struggle against sexism and racism. In fact, those two struggles are often inseparable—certainly from the perspective of black women and some other women…

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S4 E4: The Second Revolution

  • February 19, 2020
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After the Civil War, a surprising coalition tried to remake the United States into a real multiracial democracy for the first time. Reconstruction, as the effort was called, brought dramatic change to America. For a…

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S4 E3: The Cotton Empire

  • February 5, 2020
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In the decades after America’s founding and the establishment of the Constitution, did the nation get better, more just, more democratic? Or did it double down on violent conquest and exploitation?   Reported, produced, written,…

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S4 E2: “The Excess of Democracy”

  • January 22, 2020
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Pelham Town Hall, Pelham, Massachusetts, the site of meetings for the farmers’ protest movement that came to be called Shays’ Rebellion, in 1786-7.

In the summer of 1787, fifty-five men got together in Philadelphia to write a new Constitution for the United States, replacing the new nation’s original blueprint, the Articles of Confederation. But why, exactly? What problems…

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S4 E1: Rich Man’s Revolt

  • January 8, 2020
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In the American Revolution, the men who revolted were among the wealthiest and most comfortable people in the colonies. What kind of revolution was it, anyway? Was it about a desire to establish democracy—or something…

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S3 E12: The End of Male Supremacy?

  • December 12, 2018
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In our Season Three finale, co-hosts Celeste Headlee and John Biewen talk about where American culture goes from here, sexism-wise. And we hear from scholar Melvin Konner, who argues that we are in fact witnessing—and…

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S3 E11: Domination

  • November 28, 2018
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Host John Biewen dips into the world of sports talk radio, where guys talk not just about sports but also about how to be a man in twenty-first-century America. What John finds is more complicated…

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S3 E10: The Juggernaut

  • November 14, 2018
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Writer Ben James and his wife Oona are raising their sons in a progressive and “queer-friendly” New England town. They actively encourage the boys to be themselves, never mind those traditional gender norms around “masculinity”…

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S3 E9: Be Like You

  • October 31, 2018
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Lewis Wallace, female-assigned at birth, wanted to transition in the direction of maleness—in some ways. He shifted his pronouns, had surgery, starting taking testosterone. None of that meant he wanted to embrace everything that our…

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Please. Stop. Putting. People. Who. Are. Still. Lying. About. The. Election. On. TV.

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We are so tired y'all. https://twitter.com/voxdotcom/status/1365285550224244736

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