Yes, we could make it all about Epstein, but I thought it was more important to understand the systems that produced the outcome. Why aren't powerful people held accountable? Why don't systems work to protect the very people they're created to protect? How do systems fail, and when they do, is it actually a failure?

I was sitting in the Admiral's Lounge at DCA, waiting on a long flight delay, and spoke at length with a couples therapist about the realities of couples therapy. Sometimes, even when you're trying to be an impartial third party, you definitely know one person is to blame. Someone is making it worse, and you have to reconcile this, while still making sure the couple has a positive outcome. (Or not. Sometimes a couple therapist may realize it just ain't going to work.) In this episode, I examine America from the standpoint of a couples therapist, trying to look at "The Two Americas" to decide if one side actually owns more blame for the dysfunction. The answer, unequivocally, is yes.

The problem with reality is its stubborn insistence on existing -- even when we've already decided what we need it to mean.

On a Wednesday morning in Minnesota, a 37-year-old woman named Renee Good did something that was simultaneously the most ordinary and most extraordinary thing a person can do: she saw something wrong happening in her neighborhood and she said "not here." In this episode, I examine why Renee Good earned the right to live an ordinary, messy life -- and why we identified with her.