How can the past help inform today’s most pressing challenges? Every Wednesday, award-winning historians Heather Cox Richardson and Joanne Freeman use their encyclopedic knowledge of US history to bring the past to life. Together, they make sense of the week in news by discussing the people, ideas, and events that got us here today. Now and Then is produced by CAFE and the Vox Media Podcast Network.
| Title | Date published | ||
| The Rise of Bully Politics | 2021-10-19 | ||
| Speakers of the House: Velvet Gloves and Iron Fists | 2021-10-12 | ||
| Split Party Politics | 2021-10-05 | ||
| Government Debt Roulette | 2021-09-28 | ||
| New York, New York | 2021-09-21 | ||
| Abortion: Whose Choice? | 2021-09-14 | ||
| Climate Control | 2021-09-07 | ||
| Attacking and Defending Voting Rights | 2021-08-31 | ||
| Afghanistan & American Styles of War | 2021-08-24 | ||
| Treason(ish) | 2021-08-17 | ||
| A Backstage Peek | 2021-08-10 | ||
| Projecting America at the Olympics | 2021-08-03 | ||
| The Human Toll of Infrastructure | 2021-07-27 | ||
| Culture Wars | 2021-07-20 | ||
| Judging the Supreme Court | 2021-07-13 | ||
| Creating Federal Holidays, July 4th to Juneteenth | 2021-07-06 | ||
| Corrupting the Commonwealth | 2021-06-29 | ||
| QAnon, Cults, and Cutlery | 2021-06-22 | ||
| Battling Over Critical Race Theory | 2021-06-15 | ||
| Investigating Democracy | 2021-06-08 |