Who is America?
L.A. Times correspondent Tyrone Beason has spent the last year and a half talking to Americans about their hopes and fears for the future. This is what he found.
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Show Notes
Since the start of 2021, L.A. Times national correspondent Tyrone Beason has been on the road. He’s doing what a lot of us are thinking about: he’s on a quest to find out what’s up with the United States. In a year-long series called “My Country,” Beason has been trying to find the things that bind us, while also trying to make sense of the issues that keep tearing us apart.
Today, we check in with Beason and hear some of his dispatches. Read the full transcript here.
Host: Gustavo Arellano
Guests: L.A. Times national correspondent Tyrone Beason
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