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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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Season 4 Trailer: The Land That Never Has Been Yet

  • December 18, 2019
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Our season-long series will touch on concerns like authoritarianism, voter suppression and gerrymandering, foreign intervention, and the role of money in politics, but we’ll go much deeper, effectively retelling the story of the United States…

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2x Peabody-nominated podcast hosted by John Biewen @KenanEthics. Season 7: "Capitalism,” on the history of our current economic system and if we can do better.

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It’s time for the white community to stop playing the victim & have an uncomfortable conversation about their violent culture, parental responsibility & the families raising the thugs causing all the white-on-white violence in Republican-controlled cities.

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Today in 1838, Frederick Douglass escaped slavery and started his pursuit for equality for all. #Liberation

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Claudia Sheinbaum says Mexico's "neoliberal period" is over, announcing a slew of new public works.

Continuing AMLO's Fourth Transformation, Mexico is building passenger rail, highways, airports, 200K+ affordable homes, and more.

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