History of Our Time How are different countries wrestling with the common global issues of 2017, and how do those issues interconnect? Morning Edition explores this with world leaders, theologians and authors.
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History of Our Time
Richard Reeves, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, argues that the top 20 percent of Americans – those with six-figure incomes and above — dominate the best schools, live in the best-located homes and pass on the best futures to their kids. Malte Mueller/Getty Images hide caption
Americans Aren't Just Divided Politically, They're Divided Over History Too
"What the American Founding Fathers understood was that institutions were built for human imperfection, not human perfection," Condoleezza Rice says. Ariel Zambelich/NPR hide caption
Social scientist Francis Fukuyama (from left), presidential adviser Michael Anton and former Ireland President Mary Robinson are some of the people NPR has interviewed in an exploration of how we got to this point in history and where we're headed. Larry Downing/Reuters; Ariel Zambelich/NPR; Jason DeCrow/AP hide caption