How’d we get so lonely? Turns out, it wasn’t the invention of DoorDash 🤷🏻‍♂️🍟Over the last sixty years, the amount of time Americans spend on social activities got cut in half—down from 13 hours a week in the 60s to just six hours...

For the last thirty years, Mari Walker has been a nurse in Northeast Pennsylvania 👩🏼‍⚕️💟She started out working in hospitals; since then, she’s also spent time in addiction and hospice care.When I asked her whether the US...

How would you define the American Dream? 🇺🇸🤔How about this: You come up with a new way to target prescription drugs to specific kinds of cells in the human body. You apply for a PhD and get accepted. You do your research and file...

Crumbling classrooms. Plummeting SAT scores. Teachers near the poverty line. What happened? 😲Ten years ago, Florida's education success story was the envy of the nation. Thanks to the hard work of Republicans like Jeb Bush, Florida’s fo...

It's easy to feel overwhelmed by the news these days—to give up and go into your hole. 🙈But Mikhail Mikhaylov decided to do something. He's a college senior at the University of Florida, a Russian-American student who's fighting for Ukra...

Joel Elliott has a uniquely American story 👦🏾He grew up in Miami’s Overtown Neighborhood, which he affectionately refers to as Swamp City and Rat Town. As a kid, he was known as Lil Smurf; he loved skateboarding—he idolized Tony Hawke—an...

What if we gave America a blood test? 🩸When you go to the doctor, they give you your numbers for cholesterol, blood pressure, body fat percentage, the whole deal. If you’re regular about getting your checkups, you can track your numbers ...

When we talk about politics, we tend to use the word “should.” Like, we should level the playing field. We should work to correct historical inequalities.But we don’t do as good a job thinking about how federal policies will impact indiv...

Life can be confusing and difficult for a 24-year-old in America. Especially if you happen to be a queer black woman living in the South, and you’re working three jobs.But somehow, in the midst of everything, Kaya Lewis is finding time t...

Ever wonder what it would be like to be a hundred years old? Or what America looks like to somebody who lived through the Second World War? Well, don’t wonder anymore. Peggy Jemison Bodine is turning a hundred this July. In a nation...

America's small farmers are a resilient bunch—but they're subject to powerful forces outside their control. In the words of Jim Sayle: "We can either do death by a thousand cuts of playing the game the way it was being played—or we can do somet...

In our current political climate, it can feel like the middle is drying up. It’s more and more difficult to find common ground—or even communicate with people you disagree with.Dorcas Young Griffin is our first podcast guest; she's a se...

What is America? It's a big question. Maybe we used to be able to agree on the answer—but we can't take it for granted anymore.In this episode, meet host John Minervini and learn a bit about the podcast. Over the next year, we'll drive a...