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May 24 - Another Oil Spill and "The Sea Party Rebellion"; A Police Acquittal in Cleveland; The Iraq War Blame Game

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October 30 - A Reality Check on the Ebola Hysteria; How the Red Cross Really Responded to Super-Storm Sandy; The Exploding Space Station Supply Mission Could Have Been Worse; The Filmmaker of "The Great Invisible"

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September 4 - BP Guilty of Gross Negligence in Causing the Gulf Spill; Understanding the Saudi Wahhabis and I.S.; Dark Money Pours in to this Midterm Election as "Social Welfare"

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March 24 - The Rising Cost of Putin's Putsch in Ukraine; Obama's Second Attempt to Crack Down on For-Profit Colleges; The 25th Anniversary of the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill

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November 15 - BP gets a Slap on the Wrist; A Silver Lining in a Cloud of Scandal; Fixing our Broken Elections

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