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Let Throughline Help You Make Sense of This Moment

Since 2019, NPR's podcast and radio show Throughline has been putting events into historical context. Here are some episodes we think might help us better understand this moment.
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Since the attack on Capitol Hill there have been a slew of think pieces about just how unprecedented it was. That is true. But it is also true that the past is full of precedent, full of stories and events that bring context to the present, and an understanding of what might be ahead.

Since 2019, NPR's podcast and radio show has been going behind the headlines, putting events into historical context. Here are some episodes of the show we think might help us better understand this moment.

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