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Firing Line
Jon Meacham
Season 2026
Episode 28
As America marks its 250th year, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Jon Meacham examines our triumphs and tragedies, the tension between patriotism and nationalism, and challenges to democracy in the Trump era, through his book “American Struggle.”
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Stanley McChrystal discusses the role of the military in America’s 250-year-old democracy.
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America at 250: Hoover explores how courts, states, and military service sustain the republic.
26:46
Ken Burns and Sarah Botstein discuss their PBS series “The American Revolution.”
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Constitutional scholar Melissa Murray examines why every American should read the Constitution.
24:10
Natalie Winters and Adam Mockler discuss Trump’s immigration policy recorded in February.
24:10
Tamir Hayman, former chief of Israeli military intelligence, examines shortcomings of the Iran war.
26:46
Justice Anthony Kennedy assesses the challenges facing the Supreme Court in Trump’s second term.
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Jim Mattis and Ryan Holiday examine the ancient philosophy that inspired America’s founders.
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After the sudden death of her daughter, Danielle Crittenden reports from the front lines of grief.
