The New Face of the Democratic Party

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The roots of the surge and violence over the last 18 months is not as simple as one programme that got cancelled or one policy that got changed. These cycles of retaliation are really tough to break. There's been a growing recognition that something changed for the worst over the last year. But structural change takes a long time, and this problem is affecting people's lives right now.

America's homicide rate rose by almost 30 percent in 2020. It was the biggest spike in 60 years, and the murder rate was even higher in 2021. In this repodcast, ProPublica’s Alec MacGillis explains what might be causing “The Great Regression."

Today’s show was reported and produced by Miles Bryan, Jillian Weinberger, and Alec MacGillis, with editing help from Matt Collette, engineered by Efim Shapiro, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram.

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