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Nov 2020
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60: Ed Luce & Tom Edsall

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James and Al examine and celebrate the ongoing election results, with Associate Editor of Financial Times Ed Luce on the international order after Trump and the NYT’s Tom Edsall on the schism in the Democratic Party 
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