Late last year, President Jimmy Carter passed away at the age of 100. President Carter exemplified a life of service, and we spend this episode looking back at just some of the remarkable things that made President Carter who he was.

If nothing else, this year has been momentus--potentially decisive as it pertains to the futre of American Democracy. All along, we've talked with the experts about issues which are driving that democracy and those of us governed by it. Here are just a few of our favorite segments from 2024.

One of the most important things President Biden can do before the end of his administration is to direct the Archivist to publish the Equal Rights Amendment. To discuss why this matters, we’ve invited Kate Kelly back to the show. Kate is Senior Director for the Women’s Initiative at American Progress.

Donald Trump has vowed to do away with the department of education. This will have wide-ranging impacts on students across the country. To talk about what it all means, we’ve invited Sari Beth Rosenberg back to the show. Sari is a public school teacher in New York City, a founder of Teachers Younify, and a member of the American Federation of Teachers.

Kash Patel, Trump's FBI Director-Designate, has an enemies list--patriots he wants to prosecute for upholding the law and American values. Turns out, it looks a lot like our guest list. This week, we hear from three of our guests who are on the list: Nina Jankowicz, Adam Schiff, and President Biden.

Hi Friends,

While Alyssa was starring in Chicago on Broadway, she took some time away from the podcast - but now she's back! We catch up on the election, the role of art in times of strife, self-preservation, and a whole lot more.

This year, many of us are struggling to find gratitude. Perhaps we can find it in the story of Sara Josepha Hale, the women who made it her life's mission to make Thanksgiving a national holiday. She had to face a nation in civil war, a president in crisis, the passage of time, and the apathy of power. Nevertheless, she persisted.

We too, shall persist. Our fights are not new, and they will not be won overnight. But they will be won.

In what has become a Thanksgiving tradition at Sorry Not Sorry, we are revisiting this episode with Denise Kiernan, bestselling author of "We Gather Together."

There seems to be no end to the violent conflict around the world. This violence seems to produce no end of human suffering, but as Stalin said, “The death of one man is a tragedy. The death of millions is a statistic." OUr guest this week is a master of telling the story of the one person. Arwa Damon is an award-winning journalist, president and founder of INARA, a non-profit that provides access to life-altering medical and mental health care to children impacted by human-induced or natural disasters, and the director of the new film Seizing the Summit.

Friends, it's a hard week.

We lost, badly, and we learned more than we wanted to know about our neighbors. History gives us a lesson or two on what befalls those who govern with hate and abuses of power, and the resilience of the people who suffer under them.

They are lessons Trump would do well to remember, if only he was capable of learning them.

The election is this week. The choice is yours: do we elect a convicted felon who has been adjudicated responsible for rape, who tried to overthrow the government, who pushed the Supreme Court to a never-before-seen level of extremism, who has threatened journalists, Democrats, his opponent, and others with violence, who promises economic and immigration plans that will cause incredible chaos and harm and almost certainly crash the economy, and who has based his campaign on hate for women, trans people LGBTQ people, immigrants, Black people, Jewish people, Muslim people, the disabled, the poor, and anyone who is not a rich white man, or do you want to elect Vice President Harris?

This week, we take one last look at what is at stake.