Rahm Emanuel: America Has Lost Its Nerve
What It Takes with Sarah McCammon, Episode 04
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Rahm Emanuel has a reputation for two things: a tough demeanor and a policy nerd’s command of detail. In Part 1 of our interview, he lives up to both.
Ambassador Emanuel argues that America has spent 25 years sleepwalking — through the Iraq war, the Great Recession, and the pandemic — and that the people responsible were never held accountable. His solution starts somewhere you might not expect: a Mississippi classroom.
Sarah McCammon spoke with him in Chicago about his diagnosis of the country, the education plan he’d run from elementary school to free community college, how we confront AI anxiety, and why he says it’s the crisis neither party takes seriously enough.