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November 25 - The Prosecutor Acting as Officer Wilson's Defense Lawyer; Was the Fix in from the Beginning in Prosecuting Officer Wilson?; Glenn Greenwald and James Risen Discuss Press Freedom and the National Security State

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October 23 - Canada's PM Vows to Redouble Canada's Anti-Terrorism Efforts; Petty Criminal Turned Terrorist's Possible Links to the Islamic State; A Pulitzer Prize-Winning New York Times Investigative Reporter Who is Facing Jail Time for Doing His Job

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June 25 - The New Realities of a Collapsing Iraq; The Combined Military, Diplomatic and Intelligence Strategies of Russia's New Czar; The U.S. Media's Muted Response to Jailing of Journalists

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June 23 - The General Jails Journalists then gets U.S. Aid; Who Secretly Taped the Polish Politicians?; The Pope puts a Target on his Back

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June 2 - Supreme Court Issues Go-To-Jail Ruling to Reporter; Does Replacing Coal Plants with Gas Reduce Emissions?; A New Economic Vision to Address Climate Change

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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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February 12 - The U.S. Plunges 13 Points on the Reporters Without Borders Global Press Freedom Index; Important Rules Stalled at the White House; Love and Marriage with a Wounded Warrior

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January 30 -A Cold War Flashback Over Russian Cheating; A Beijing-Based Journalist Who Recently Had His Visa Pulled; How Free Trade Agreements Drive Inequality

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