Francine Kiefer, the congressional correspondent for The Christian Science Monitor, has been our unofficial political pastor over the life of this podcast. On this, her fourth visit with us, she gives Dave Schmelzer and Ryan Bauers political and cultural perspective even as she dances a victory dance that her previous prediction that we could trust democracy to work seems to be bearing out.

Mentioned in Today's Podcast:

• Blue Ocean Faith's "Giving Tuesday"