No time to waste on frivolous debates or theories that take us nowhere close to solutions to our urgent problems. The masters of distraction will continue to spin their tales of a marvelous democracy  holding fast to the highest ideals even as it struggles with awesome challenges. But that's their story, not the truth.

Leid Stories is encouraging a conversation that is long overdue: Surely we know the truth of persistently neglected areas all over America where dreams and hopes die before they're born, and our great democracy assures it. What do we do?

 

 

 

Listeners take their best shot at answering a vexing question: What should/must we understand about U.S. politics?