Hi everybody I'm

I'm recording this from the self-isolation of my own home where I imagine a lot of you will be listening to it.

So hang in there with us.

Thanks to everybody who participated in our special call in with death sex and money

about how we're all coping right now.

If you miss that, it's in your feed, scroll back and listen,

maybe it'll be helpful. We're of course thinking

about how we can continue to use this show best in this moment and we'll have more on that later.

But we know the coronavirus has already upended our lives.

Our families, our already fractured health system, our economy for sure.

It's overwhelming and one thing we know from history is that we need to be very careful about how we react in moments like these

Great things can happen, but also awful ones

We began this season with reconstruction a moment in history after the Civil War when we had to really totally rebuild our society.

We will continue thinking about that time in this show, but for now I'm thinking about a more recent moment in which millions

of Americans felt overwhelmed and worried about the future.

Because right now, even as all kinds of crises unfold around us, there's an effort to get justice

for the horrible things some people did after another crisis.

I'm Kywright and this is the United States of anxiety, a show about the unfinished

business of our history and its grip on our future. 17 years ago this week a US-led coalition invaded Iraq. The war didn't just divide

Americans, it divided the world and we're still living with the repercussions.

Good evening we're coming on the air with breaking news the Pentagon confirming that

Iran has launched a series of ballistic missiles targeting American forces in Iraq.

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