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The Sunday Edition visits the Democratic National Convention

Hillary makes history, the Bernie or Busters, and another divided party: It’s official: Hillary Clinton is the first female presidential candidate for a major party. But if the GOP has been tearing itself apart over the Donald Trump insurgency, many Bernie Sanders supporters are ignoring the Democratic Party’s calls to unify around Clinton’s candidacy. We’ll hear from delegates and activists at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia. Joan Walsh and the case for Hillary: Author, journalist and feminist Joan Walsh argues that Hillary Clinton is indeed uniquely qualified to be President of the United States, that her perceived faults have been magnified and her virtues diminished by the media and public perception, and that it’s time to put a woman in the Oval Office. The DNC Black Caucus rallies around Hillary: Hillary Clinton has been a polarizing candidate for millions of Americans, but she enjoys staunch support from African-Americans. Some of the luminaries of the DNC Black Caucus spoke passionately in support of her bid for the presidency. Touring Philadelphia with the poet laureate: Yolanda Wisher, the poet laureate of Philadelphia, takes Michael on a drive down Germantown Avenue, the artery that winds through the proud Philadelphias of history and affluence and the hidden Philadelphias of entrenched poverty. Media and political discourse in the 2016 election: Donald Trump, a bombastic, attention-seeking real estate mogul and reality TV star, clearly understands that the media can create political stars, and he knows how to use the media to his advantage. But public perceptions of Hillary Clinton are just as much a creation of the media and her uneasy relationship with it. Media coverage of this election has fostered a dark and perhaps even dangerous evolution in political discourse in the United States, according to Kathleen Hall Jamieson, the co-founder of FactCheck.org and the Director of the Annenberg Public Policy Center at the University of Pennsylvania. Whatever happened to the party of the people?: Thomas Frank, the author of What’s Wrong with Kansas and Listen, Liberal, sees the inclusive rhetoric of the big tent, all-embracing party as a cover for the true nature of the Democrats under Hillary Clinton. Frank views Clinton as the leader of a coterie of a highly educated, well-appointed and high-powered professional class that has all but abandoned its connection to the concerns and aspirations of the working class.
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Sunday Edition1:42:28The Sunday Edition visits the Democratic National Convention

Hillary makes history, the Bernie or Busters, and another divided party: It's official: Hillary Clinton is the first female presidential candidate for a major party. But if the GOP has been tearing itself apart over the Donald Trump insurgency, many Bernie Sanders supporters are ignoring the Democratic Party's calls to unify around Clinton's candidacy. We'll hear from delegates and activists at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia.

Joan Walsh and the case for Hillary: Author, journalist and feminist Joan Walsh argues that Hillary Clinton is indeed uniquely qualified to be President of the United States, that her perceived faults have been magnified and her virtues diminished by the media and public perception, and that it's time to put a woman in the Oval Office.

The DNC Black Caucus rallies around Hillary: Hillary Clinton has been a polarizing candidate for millions of Americans, but she enjoys staunch support from African-Americans. Some of the luminaries of the DNC Black Caucus spoke passionately in support of her bid for the presidency.

Touring Philadelphia with the poet laureate: Yolanda Wisher, the poet laureate of Philadelphia, takes Michael on a drive down Germantown Avenue, the artery that winds through the proud Philadelphias of history and affluence and the hidden Philadelphias of entrenched poverty.

Media and political discourse in the 2016 election: Donald Trump, a bombastic, attention-seeking real estate mogul and reality TV star, clearly understands that the media can create political stars, and he knows how to use the media to his advantage. But public perceptions of Hillary Clinton are just as much a creation of the media and her uneasy relationship with it.

Media coverage of this election has fostered a dark and perhaps even dangerous evolution in political discourse in the United States, according to Kathleen Hall Jamieson, the co-founder of FactCheck.org and the Director of the Annenberg Public Policy Center at the University of Pennsylvania.

Whatever happened to the party of the people?: Thomas Frank, the author of What's Wrong with Kansas and Listen, Liberal, sees the inclusive rhetoric of the big tent, all-embracing party as a cover for the true nature of the Democrats under Hillary Clinton. Frank views Clinton as the leader of a coterie of a highly educated, well-appointed and high-powered professional class that has all but abandoned its connection to the concerns and aspirations of the working class.

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