America, Interrupted

PBS NewsHour
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  • SOCIETY & CULTURE
America, Interrupted

America, Interrupted is an original podcast from the PBS NewsHour about how our lives have been turned upside down and how we’re making sense of it. PBS News is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders

  1. 03/26/2021

    The Longest Year: The people we’ve lost to COVID-19

    Four people who lost a loved one in the pandemic tell us about what they remember, how they’re grieving and how they're trying to move forward. PBS News is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders

    30 min

  2. 03/19/2021

    The Longest Year: How the pandemic made inequality in America worse

    Generations of inadequate medical care, deeply entrenched economic disparities and a biased system of justice all came to a head, a reminder that for many Americans the hazards of structural racism are a daily reality. We hear the story of the pandemic through people who have experienced these inequalities firsthand. PBS News is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders

    34 min

  3. 03/12/2021

    The Longest Year: How COVID-19 has reshaped our lives

    Take a second to remember what your life was like one year ago. For most of us, it all feels like a distant memory. From how we work to how we learn, who we see and where we can go, our day-to-day has changed drastically. And some of those changes have lasting consequences. PBS News is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders

    32 min

  4. 03/05/2021

    The Longest Year: Fighting ‘the invisible enemy’

    In the first episode of a series we're calling "The Longest Year," which tells the stories of the isolation, uncertainty, fear, loss and new understanding that have spread alongside the virus, we focus on the people on the front lines. PBS News is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders

    38 min

  5. 02/05/2021

    Why we haven’t cracked the mystery of COVID ‘long-haulers’

    For people whose COVID-19 symptoms linger for months, the effects can be devastating and debilitating. PBS News is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders

    33 min

  6. 01/16/2021

    PBS NewsHour Special Report: American Reckoning

    We explore what drove the Jan. 6 attack on the nation’s capital, the failures to heed warnings about growing anti-government and white nationalist extremism, the role of misinformation and disinformation online, and where we as a country go from here. PBS News is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders

    56 min

  7. 01/08/2021

    What we saw the day the Capitol was attacked

    On Jan. 6, for the first time in more than two centuries, Congress was attacked and overrun, this time by its own citizens. The PBS NewsHour's anchor and managing editor Judy Woodruff talks to correspondents Lisa Desjardins, Amna Nawaz and Yamiche Alcindor about what they saw as they reported from inside the Capitol, the grounds that surround it and the White House, respectively-- and what they and other Americans will remember from that day. Watch video of the conversation here PBS News is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders

    32 min

  8. 01/04/2021

    What’s at stake in the Georgia Senate runoffs

    Amna Nawaz talks to Emory University political science professor Andra Gillespie about why the state found itself with not one, but two runoff elections Jan. 5 – and what we can learn from the state’s changing political landscape. PBS News is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders

    25 min
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America, Interrupted is an original podcast from the PBS NewsHour about how our lives have been turned upside down and how we’re making sense of it. PBS News is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders

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  • Creator
    PBS NewsHour
  • Years Active
    2020 - 2021
  • Episodes
    29
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © 2025 NewsHour Productions LLC. All Rights Reserved.
  • Show Website
    America, Interrupted

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