Annie Crabill
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212 appearances
4 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 20 Jul
Annie Crabill’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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In his second term, Trump has doubled down on the policies of his first.
New Orleans
To paraphrase Ben Franklin, America is a republic, if you could keep it.
As the country marks its 250th birthday, the great liberal experiment is again under strain.
In another fifty years, when America marks its three hundredth birthday, historians might look back at this moment and judge whether its citizens kept their republic.
The Intelligence from The Economist · Local, an aesthetic: the deglobalisation of fun · 16 Jun 2026
podcast
In the nineteen eighties, a mood of national decline hung over America.
Annie Crable is a senior digital editor.
The country's economy had suffered in the decades prior after successive oil shocks led to stagflation.
Enter Ronald Reagan, a former actor and governor of California, who seized the moment and won the 1980 election on a campaign of renewal.
He called for pulling back the state.
And giving markets a freer hand.
Inequality widened, as did the budget deficit, but economic growth rebounded.
Reagan also significantly boosted defense spending and escalated America's nuclear arms race with the Soviets.
But much to the surprise of his critics, he pursued peace at the negotiating table, striking major nuclear reduction treaties with the Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev.
Reagan's policies hastened the collapse of the Soviet Union.
In 1981, in Reagan's first year in office, doctors in Los Angeles and New York began reporting a baffling pattern.
Young gay men were dying from rare cancers and infections that normally posed little threat.
This was the start of the AIDS crisis.
The economist wrote.
Fear and misinformation spread quickly.
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