Understanding Today’s Puzzling U.S. Economy
Inflation is high. The GDP has shrunk. But the job market has never been better. The Washington Post's Damian Paletta helps make sense of the U.S. economy today.
Protesters gathered in front of the White House last August to show their opposition to the white supremacists rally in Charlottesville.
Jon Meacham is a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian known for his biographies of Andrew Jackson, George H.W. Bush and Thomas Jefferson. But after the violence that broke out last year at the white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, he started thinking about our country’s divisions. His conclusion? We have been here before. Meacham joins Diane to talk about his new book, “The Soul of America: The Battle for Our Better Angels,” and says our past provides hope for overcoming division and fear.
Then, Mary Higgins Clark is often called the “Queen of Suspense.” She has written more than 50 best-sellers, with 100 million copies sold in the U.S., alone. Now 90, Clark has just released her latest work, “I’ve Got My Eyes on You.” She talks to Diane about how she got her start and what her tenth decade has taught her about appreciating life.
Inflation is high. The GDP has shrunk. But the job market has never been better. The Washington Post's Damian Paletta helps make sense of the U.S. economy today.
From high mortgage rates to shortages that have spread coast to coast, New York Times reporter Emily Badger explains the roots -- and consequences of our country's broken housing system.
Fifty years after the Tuskegee study, Diane talks to Harvard's Evelynn Hammonds about the intersection of race and medicine in the United States, and the lessons from history that can help us understand health inequities today.
Pills, the right to travel and fetal personhood laws -- Diane talks to Temple University Law School's Rachel Rebouché about what's next in the fight over abortion in the U.S.
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