Listen: Is America Going to Make It?
If you watch the news, the country seems deeply divided about the coronavirus. But polls have shown an uncommon unity among Americans.
On this episode of the podcast Social Distance, the 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?
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What follows is an edited and condensed transcript of their conversation.
Katherine Wells: Is this the worst time ever?
The unemployment rates are going to be the highest that almost any living American has ever seen. I say because there are people who
