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# Why can’t you sleep? How insomnia is plaguing America
- URL: https://www.cascadepbs.org/show/amanpour-co/extras/why-cant-you-sleep-how-insomnia-is-plaguing-america-fusp6e/
- Published: 2025-07-22T12:45:48.000Z
- Updated: 2025-07-22T16:02:09.000Z
- Description: Jennifer Senior discusses why Americans can’t sleep.
- Author: Cascade PBS Staff
- Tags: Amanpour and Company, #ZZZ_Show_f5d26ac8-fdd2-4a18-befb-073a64e71a12, #v1.6, #ZZZ_Extra_d114deae-523e-4df4-9da0-447301d02ba7, #extra

We all need our beauty sleep. There’s nothing more frustrating than tossing and turning in bed, unable to drift off. Millions in America suffer from insomnia, including *The Atlantic*’s staff writer Jennifer Senior. She joins the show to discuss her recent piece on the struggle for sleep, and why she believes it is becoming a “public health emergency.”