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Is This the End of the American Era?

Anthropologist Wade Davis explains how COVID-19 is signaling “the unraveling of America."

08/17/2020

Amanpour and Company

Is This the End of the American Era?

Clip: 8/17/2020 | 18mVideo has Closed Captions

Anthropologist Wade Davis explains how COVID-19 is signaling “the unraveling of America."

Amid a global pandemic, with a polarized political electorate, and with protesters crowding the streets, one wonders if the American Era might be coming to an end. Wade Davis certainly would argue that it is. In a recent article for "Rolling Stone," he wrote about COVID-19 as a factor in “the unraveling of America." Davis shares his thoughts with Hari Sreenivasan.

08/17/2020

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