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Planet Money talks with the authors of Why Nations Failabout whether the Capitol insurrection is a sign our nation is failing, and, if so, if there's anything we can do about it.

NPR's Noel King talks to Tyler Stovall about his book: White Freedom: The Racial History of an Idea.It traces the complex relationship between freedom and race starting in the eighteenth century.

Political conspiracy theories are pushing some family relationships to the breaking point. NPR's Audie Cornish talks with Dannagal Young of the University of Delaware about how to mend those rifts.

Pierce stars alongside Charlie Robinson in a new online production of Some Old Black Man. It's "the classic confrontation of father and son," says Pierce.

Thrasher magazine was founded 40 years ago in San Francisco to cover skateboarding. Over the next four decades, the black-and-white newsprint magazine grew into a full color cultural arbiter.

Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock's wins in the Georgia Senate runoffs cements Democrats' control of the Senate for the next two years, but comes as polarization and political violence are on the rise.

At a rally near Atlanta, Sen. Ted Cruz, a leader of the fight against the presidential election result, called on Republicans in Georgia to vote in the state's runoff elections on Tuesday.

Tyler Elliott plays the puzzle with puzzlemaster Will Shortz and NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro.

The next round of federal COVID relief is finally on its way. That has some Utah business owners hopeful they might just be able to outlast the pandemic. The money won’t solve all their problems though.

Tyler Jones' new video, For The Sake Of Old Times, features a Black choir singing a reimagined version of "Auld Lang Syne" and shows images of this year's racial justice protests and the pandemic.