David Plotz, Emily Bazelon and John Dickerson discuss the US abandonment of the Kurds, the Democratic presidential debates, and guest Daniel Markovits’s new book The Meritocracy Trap.
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Podcast production by Jocelyn Frank.
Research and show notes by Bridgette Dunlap.
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