How one podcast is looking to history to try stop America from spinning out of control

The United States of America is swinging – culturally, legally, and of course, politically. 
For Jad Abumrad, so-called public radio royalty, best known for bringing us the joys of Radiolab, the key to a more perfect union is finding a pivot point (the law) and using it to peel the layers of the onion (history) that has lead to the teary existential crisis of today.
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