There must be something in the water... in the fourth and final act of a recent This American Life podcast, Ira Glass and his team turn to musicians Sara Bareilles and Leslie Odom Jr. to imagine "some of the things President Obama thinks about the current election, but can't say publicly." Bareilles' composition takes language and song to make sense of the world before us. And, in the end, Bareilles and Odom remain loyal to a conflicted country that is yet to be:

"After all we’ve done
Every battle hard won
Every hair gone gray
In the name of this place
In a history plagued
with incredible mistakes
Still I pledge my allegiance to these United divided States.”

Brilliant. God bless America.