For the past few weeks the media and congress have been looking at radical changes to the US Postal Service under the administration and the new Trump-appointed Postmaster General, Louis DeJoy. President Trump himself has been about how these changes to the postal service could affect mail-in voting and the election result itself. Lisa Graves has been studying the effort to privatize the post office for decades. Listen to the back story here and take ...

New works from guests: Heather Cox Richardson, Jeff Sharlet, Eric Alterman and others.

Four years ago, Dr. Lee felt a duty to warn the country about dangerous possibilities stemming from a man who lacked the mental fitness to be president, breaking the "Goldwater Rule."

At 22, working for the non-profit organization Demos in New York, Heather McGhee plunged into the fight for debt reform, then tackled Wall Street corruption and consumer protection, and wound up president of Demos, leading its campaign against political and economic inequality. Heather McGhee decided to change the world, or at least try. Her new book is THE SUM OF US.

This isn’t who we are? What if it is? Let us not underestimate for even a moment the impact of Joe Biden’s victory. This, we were told, has been the most important American election since 1864, and that was no hyperbole. So why did this still feel like a loss for so many, at least initially.

After four years of running in place, November 2016 seems like a lifetime ago. The United States of 2020 is a very different place, at once more devastated and more hopeful than at least we were a mere four years ago.