Right now, we are living through some of the most tumultuous political times our country has ever known.

I'm David Remnick, and each week on the New Yorker Radio Hour, I'll try to make sense of what's happening,

alongside politicians and thinkers like Cory Booker, Nancy Pelosi, Liz Cheney, Tim Walts,

Katanji Brown Jackson, Newt Gingrich, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Charlemagne the God, and so many more.

That's all in the New Yorker Radio Hour, wherever you listen to podcasts.

Music Good morning. I'm Jane Pauley, and this is Sunday morning.

For the past few months, we've been looking ahead to America's 250th birthday by looking back at the milestone moments that help make America America.

This morning, David Pogue looks at ingenuity on the cutting edge, exploring why, when it comes to modern innovation,

there's truly no place as inventive as these United States.

From the time of Thomas Edison, He's not just the skilled inventor.

He is that, but he's also the savvy entrepreneur.

The U.S. has led the world in inventions.

Electricity, the personal computer, the Internet, it's all American stuff.

So why? So we got the cream of the's all American stuff. So why?

So we got the cream of the crop of the world.

Everybody's got an idea, but building a business, not many people can do it.

America, the Invention Factory, ahead on Sunday morning.

The Simpsons with 800 episodes and, remains the standard bearer for an animation boom

that's helped turn TV cartoons into big business. Our Seth Stone caught up with the show's

creator, Matt Grainning, at the animation world's biggest international film festival.

Who do you like to draw?

You know, my favorite character to draw is Homer.

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