• "We are a very complicated country with a very complicated relationship to family community... we are in freefall off a cliff. I don't know when we land." - Jill Leapor [00:00:00]

• "The water runs to the Supreme Court, and then the Supreme Court has far more power than it was intended to have, which is a deformity of our politics." - **Jill…

"The problem for us is we need things that the Iranian regime either refuses to deliver, cannot deliver, or cannot sustain over a period of time, and so we're sort of negotiating with ourselves at this point." - Stephen Kotkin [00:02:44]

"What a regime is—we think a regime is just a bunch of people at the top... but a regime is a society... 10…

"If the only human reality was brute force we would still be living in tiny hunter gatherer bands in the African savannah because the whole of human history is about how do you get more people to cooperate and to trust each other and you cannot do that only with brute force." - Yuval Noah Harari [00:02:58]

"Nationalism at its core is about loving and…

"Ultimately the change that has driven our politics to be so vitriolic is one that centers on how we live our everyday lives." - Marc Dunkelman [00:04:02]

"We went from having very thick middle rings... to having very thin middle rings and instead investing that social capital, those hours and that attention, in the inner and outermost." -…