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🗓️ 28 March 2024
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Guest-hosted by Brian Stelter: The United States is one of the greatest democracies in the world. But, for a lot of people in this country, it doesn’t feel that way. A recent Pew Research survey found that about 7 in 10 Americans feel that our political system is not working well. Ezra Klein is one of the top thinkers and writers on U.S. politics. He’s also an opinion columnist for the New York Times and host of the podcast The Ezra Klein Show. Klein sat down with Apple News In Conversation guest host Brian Stelter to talk about some concrete ways we could make our system better.
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0:00.0 | Hi there, it's Brian Stelter here. This is my last episode hosting Apple News in conversation. |
0:06.0 | And up next in the host seat is Julia Carpenter, formerly of the Wall Street Journal. |
0:10.0 | She'll be focusing her episodes around Money and personal finance and she has a question for you. |
0:16.0 | Has a traumatic event impacted your relationship with money? |
0:20.0 | Maybe you lost your job during the 2008 financial crisis or around the start of the pandemic |
0:25.0 | or maybe you've been evicted in the past or been through a divorce where money was a sticking point. |
0:30.0 | How has an event like that changed the way you think about and manage your finances? |
0:35.0 | If you have a story about this, we want to hear it. |
0:38.0 | Use your iPhone's voice memos app to record yourself. |
0:41.0 | Tell us your name, where you're from, your experience, and how it's affected you. |
0:46.0 | And please try to keep it to about a minute or so. You can send it to us at Apple News |
0:51.8 | today at Apple.com. |
0:54.2 | Again, that's Apple News Today at Apple. |
0:58.7 | And we might include your story on the show. |
1:01.8 | Thanks. This is in conversation from Apple News. I'm Brian Stelter, filling in for |
1:11.0 | Shumida Basu. Today, Ezra Klein's five ideas for making |
1:16.0 | American politics work better. America is one of the world's greatest democracies. |
1:27.0 | Our Constitution is the longest surviving ridden charter of government in the world. |
1:35.0 | We have a system of checks and balances that supports free and fair elections |
1:40.0 | and that protects people's rights and freedoms like speech, religion and assembly. |
1:45.0 | But the system is far from perfect and many Americans are far from satisfied with it. |
1:51.0 | A recent Pew Research Survey found that 7 and 10 Americans, 72 percent, feel |
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