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This is the campaign trail Tuesday, November 13th.

I'm Dorothy Wickenden, executive editor of The New Yorker. Each week on the campaign trail, we discuss the presidential race and developments in Washington.

And this is the political scene, a weekly conversation with New Yorker writers and guests about politics.

It's Thursday, April 28th, and I'm still Dorothy Wickenden, executive editor of The New Yorker.

Back in 2007, as the primary race between Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton for the Democratic presidential nomination was heating up,

I was asked by the editor of the New Yorker's fledgling website, I'd host something called a podcast just for a few months about the extraordinary campaign.

My first episode, as the host of the New Yorker's Politics podcast, aired that November.

And this episode, 15 years later, is my last.

But though this is my last show, the political scene is

going to continue on. More on that at the end of this episode. My time as host has coincided with one of the

most tumultuous political eras in American history. The tumult is being driven by a question

whose answer will determine our future.

What kind of country do we live in?

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