Nick Bryant's August 2020 cover story examines the troubles besetting the United States, and argues that the election of Donald Trump as president in 2016 was the culmination of trends that had been growing for decades, that were subsequently laid bare by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Nick is then joined in conversation by Good Weekend editor Katrina Strickland and The Age senior writer Farrah Tomazin, who is covering the US in the lead-up to November's presidential election. The trio discuss the faultlines in American society, from racial division and religious animosity to rising inequality, and ponder whether the Democratic ticket of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris will be enough to bridge those divides.

Discussion starts at 27:00. 
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