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Iraq

June 12 - A Military assessment of ISIS's Lightening Offensive; ISIS's Ambitious Map of an Islamic Caliphate; Sebastian Junger Discuss his Latest Film Korengal

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June 11 - The Latest Fallout from the Disastrous Bush/ Cheney Intervention in Iraq; Combating Sexual Violence in Conflict Zones

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January 6 - Escalating Rebel-on-Rebel Fighting in Syria; The 50th Anniversary of the Declaration of the War on Poverty; The 60 Minutes Hit Job on Clean Energy

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January 5 - Open Rebellion in Iraq; Obama's Wall Street-Friendly Regulators; The Rising Cost of Buying Elections

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August 18 - Refugees Pour Out of Syria into Iraqi Kurdistan; What Arabs See as Hypocritical Western Democratic Values; The Burning of Churches in Egypt

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August 11 - Is Iraq Unravelling? Is the Natural Gas Boom Contributing to Global Warming; The Mediocre Mind Behind Tea Party Philosophy

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August 5 - When Monopolies Rule Our Access to Communications; Al Qaeda is in Iraq for Real This Time; The Lure of Performance Enhancing Drugs

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July 22 - Will Larry Summers be the Next Chairman of the Fed? The Former Commander of Abu Ghraib on the Massive Prison Break; A Wry Look at the Royal Birth

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June 5 - Wolfowitz, Not Bradley Manning Should Be on Trial; Obama's Appointment of Susan Rice to the NSC and Samantha Power to the U.N.; A Syrian Opposition Leader on Battlefield Losses

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June 4 - Who Should be on Trial with Bradley Manning?; The Story Behind the Wikileaks Whistleblower; Obama Introduces Three Judges the Republicans will Filibuster

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