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Afghanistan

February 12 - Yemen Falls Apart before Our Eyes; Republicans Demonize Food Stamp Recipients; A Veteran CIA Officer on What Went Wrong in Afghanistan

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February 11 - The Shooting of Three Muslim Students in North Carolina; A Case against the U.S. Arming Ukraine; The Powerful Memoir of a War Photographer's Life and Love

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November 17 - The Site for the Latest TV Beheadings;Maziar Bahari, the Subject of the New Film by Jon Stewart, "Rosewater"; How Much Went Missing of the $200 Billion for Military Contracting in Iraq & Afghanistan;The National Disgrace of Homeless Children

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August 5 - Panic Over Ebola Generated by Ignoramuses Like Donald Trump; An American General Killed at Afghanistan's Equivalent of West Point; Africa's Corrupt and Entrenched Leaders at the Africa Summit

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July 8 - Another War in Gaza Looms; A Parallel Government in Afghanistan?; The Tech Giants are Not Fighting to Preserve an Open Internet

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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 1 - Could the Prisoner Swap Lead to Larger Deals on the Future of Afghanistan?; Why the Left Makes Excuses for the Murderous Assad Regime; China's Official Amnesia as the 25th Anniversary of Tiananmen Aproaches

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April 15 - A Nightmare Scenario in Ukraine; The Wrong Enemy in Afghanistan; Who Gets What From Your Tax Dollars?

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April 10 - Will the Public Mobilize to Stop the Time Warner / Comcast Megamerger?; Is Blocking Iran's Envoy to the U.N. Meant to Humilate Obama and Rouhani?; Exposing the Real Enemy to the U.S. in Afghanistan

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April 6 - The Aspirations of the Afghan People Versus Their Government; An Assessment of the Affordable Care Act's Successful Sign-Up of 7.1 Million Americans; The Reality of the American Dream Today

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