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February 4 - Good News From the Chairman of the FCC; The Confirmation Hearing for the New Secretary of Defense; The Growing Graduation Gap Between Rich and Poor Students

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February 2 - Obama Urges Parents to Vaccinate Their Kids; The President's Four Trillion Dollar Budget; After Five Years of Cuts, an Increased Defense Budget

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February 26 - Obama Threatens Karzai; The Latest Plan to Suppress Democratic Votes in Ohio; The Pentagon's Smoke and Mirrors Budget

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August 12 - A Judge on Changes in Drug Sentencing; Ending The Failed "War on Drugs"; The Puny and Paltry Threats America Faces

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March 5 - The Death of a Revolutionary; Filling the Political Vacuum in Venezuela; Should Israel be Exempt from Sequester Cuts?

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February 25 - Will the Republicans Take Note of Berlusconi's Success With Anti-Austerity?; Cutting Defense to Make the U.S. Stronger; Cuba's Next in Line in 2018

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February 21 - The Disappeared in Mexico's Drug War; Hagel's Revenge?; The Consequences of the Sequester

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February 20 - The Israeli Government's Report on the "Suicide" of Prisoner X; How Rogue is the Chinese Military? Will Hagel Face a Filibuster?

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February 7 - Oversight on Assassinations; Facts and Figures on the Drone Program; A Hippocratic Oath on the Economy?

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January 8 - Can Our Bloated National Security Establishment be Reformed?; Hagel's Chances of Being Confirmed; Venezuela's Constitutional Dispute as Chavez Misses His Own Inauguaration

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