Grading America's First 250 Years: America, Actually with Astead Herndon

Hi everyone, this is Pivot from New York Magazine and the Vox Media Podcast Network. I'm Kara Swisher. We're off for the holiday today, so we have an episode of America actually with Esthed Herndon for you. In this episode, Esthed talks with historian Heather Cox Richardson about America's first 250 years and how the US is facing its biggest stress tests since the Civil War. Oh joy.

So you enjoy. So we are 250 years into this American experiment and I'd say it's going okay. I give us like a C<unk>. The Declaration of Independence, the women's rights movement, the invention of basketball or the iPhone, all good. Slavery, colonialism, income inequality, unequivocally bad.

But what's going to determine the next 250 years of America? And how do we write a new social contract that can give us the democracy we deserve? That's this week on America Actually. Let's dig in. I'm Vina Garten and each week on Happy Hour I invite old and new friends for a drink and a fun conversation at my kitchen table in New York City.

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