The Eights | How the 2008 Financial Crisis Divided America

The Brian Lehrer Show | Jun 13, 2018

Tanzina Vega, new host of The Takeaway, and Adam Davidson, New Yorker staff writer and co-founder of NPR's Planet Money, discuss how the Great Recession of 2008 exacerbated the cultural divides in the United States and contributed to today's Culture Wars.

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