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April 16 - The Refugee Crisis in the Mediterranean; Republicans Move America Towards an Oligarchy; Anti-Vaxxers Stall Bill in California

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November 3 - Why Foreign Fighters Join the Islamic State; Outside Money and Dark Money in Toss-Up Senate Elections; The U.S. Billionaires Political Power Index

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April 23 - How America's Elite Dominate Our Politics; Putin's Takeover of Russia's Facebook; "Escape from Cuba: Yasiel Puig's Untold Journey to the Dodgers

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March 11 - Putin's Vulnerability is Banks, Not Tanks; The Senate Intelligence Committee Takes a Stand; Are the Oligarchs in the New Gilded Age Getting Off Lightly?

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December 12 - A Swedish Diplomat on Ukraine's Kleptocratic President; Cronyism in the Fire Sale of the Post Office; An Economic Analysis of Cutting Unemployment Benefits

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May 22 - Increasing Tensions Between the White House and the Press; The Brazen Hypocrisy of Oklahoma's Senators; A Cure For Capitalism

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January 6 - The Press, Enablers of Republican Recklessness?; How the Syria Crisis Will Impact Iraq; The Future of Jobs in an Economy of Profits Without Prosperity

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November 22 - Stop Shopping and Save the Earth; Giving Thanks to Those who put Food on our Table; Celebrating People Power

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August 13 - Is Netanyahu About to Bomb Iran?; Paul Ryan's Appeal to Blue Collar Voters; "Letters to a Young Activist"

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July 25 - America's Move Towards Oligarchy; Unprecedented Melting of the Greenland Ice Sheet; Ecological Panic Leading to Future Genocides

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