Want to understand where we are as a society…and how we got here? Is democracy dying? Is autocracy winning? Will there be civil war in America?

If you only had one hour to answer these BIG questions, it’d be hard to do better than spending that hour listening to this episode of Throughline from National Public Radio.

Hosts: Rund Abdelfatah and Ramtin Arablouei. Guests: Malcolm Nance, Anne Applebaum, and Peniel Joseph.