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What Reconstruction and the New Deal can Teach us About What Comes after the Pandemic Presidency

THE 2020 ELECTION is six months away, more than 80,000 Americans have been killed by coronavirus and official unemployment is inching toward 20%. This week on Intercepted: An in-depth historical look at some of the great crises in U.S. history and how presidents, Congress, and social movements have responded.

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