Pushkin.

It's hard to read the news these days without asking yourself, how did we get here?

Fiasco is a history podcast for the co-creators of Slow Burn.

In our first season, Bush v. Gore, we examined an unmistakable turning point in American

politics, the 2000 election, which resulted in a high-stakes stalemate, ended with one of the most

controversial rulings in Supreme Court history. So if you're trying to make sense at the present

moment, check out Fiasco, Bush v. Gore. Listen on theHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to podcasts.

From Pushkin Industries, this is deep background, the show where we explore the stories behind the

stories in the news. I'm Noah Feldman. For those of you who have been listening in recent weeks,

you know that we have been very deep inside Corona.

In fact, sometimes I think we don't talk about anything else.

And from an ethical perspective, maybe that's correct.

This is a pressing problem.

People are dying, and we need to take that all extremely seriously.

Yet it's also true that a little while ago when I spoke to

Dr. Lori Santos of Yale University, she advised me that maintaining routine and tradition is a powerful

way of managing ourselves under these circumstances. Well, for a lot of us, the maintenance of routine

includes the schedule of holidays.

And with Passover and Easter coming, we have to make a decision of whether to ignore those

holidays altogether or to celebrate them as appropriately as we can under our current

straightened circumstances.

Here at Deep Background, we don't celebrate holidays as a podcast, but we do try to maintain some sense of continuity,

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