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American Crisis

About the Substack

A podcast that explores whether journalism can help save democracy, seen through the lens of Watergate and Jan. 6, 2021.

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About Margaret Sullivan

I’m a pro-democracy media critic, an author and an occasional glass-ceiling breaker. You might know me as the former public editor of the New York Times.

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