Is America Going to Make It?

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The Atlantic Monthly Group, LLC

Health & Fitness, News, Science

4.6 • 935 Ratings

🗓️ 28 May 2020

⏱️ 28 minutes

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If you watch the news, the country sounds deeply divided about the coronavirus. But polls show an uncommon unity among Americans. Staff writer James Fallows joins to share some historical perspective and answer the question he’s found himself grappling with across his decades-long career: Is America going to make it? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey, Catherine.
0:05.0	Hey, do you know that it's almost June?
0:09.9	It is almost June.
0:11.6	I don't know what that means, but sure.
0:13.7	Well, this sounds like a fact.
0:15.4	There was this thing.
0:17.4	There was like a running joke about how slowly time was going,
0:21.4	especially, you know, in like January of this year was. was approximately 10 years long.
0:27.0	Now it feels like it somehow warps-speeded from March to June.
0:33.0	Yeah, so many terrible things happen every day that it's like you can't even
0:38.0	appropriately mourn or pay attention to each terrible thing because another terrible thing happens and then the terrible
0:44.7	thing yesterday is still happening and...
0:46.8	Well...
0:47.8	Here's some things... these are just some facts I'm going to say.
0:50.7	Oh no.
0:51.7	I don't care for facts. More of a feelings guy myself.
0:56.0	Well, we can do both. Okay. 100,000 people have now died in the US. We have close to 20%
1:02.3	unemployment. Child hunger is up. We We have
1:05.0	incident after incident after incident of police brutality
1:08.0	which continues to happen.
1:10.0	Right.
1:11.0	A lot of depression, domestic violence.
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