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Travis Gettys January 19, 2021 Documentary filmmaker Ken Burns is alarmed by the exposure of democracy's fragility, but he has plenty of reasons for optimism. The filmmaker has documented three major crises in U.S. history -- the Civil War, the Depression and World War II -- and he believes Americans may be living through a fourth, and worst, historic crisis, reported NPR . "We're beset by three viruses, are we not?" Burns told the network. "[There's] a year-old COVID-19 virus, but also a 402-year-old virus of white supremacy, of racial injustice ... and we've got an age-old human virus of...
