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May 16 - Terror Groups Are Hard to Penetrate But Penetrations Are Easily Blown as Trump Has Demonstrated; The Doomed Meeting Between Trump and Erdogan; The US Compares the Assad Regime to the Nazis

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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 10 - To Kill or Not to Kill an American with a Drone; Obama's Embarrassing Diplomatic Appointees; Robert Reich on his Film "Inequality for All"

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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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August 25 - A Showdown in Syria Looms; A Political Use of Military Force in Syria; "The United States of Paranoia"

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August 6 - The Real Causes of Instability in Yemen; Assessing Iran's New Leader; Arbitrating in Baseball's "Age of Prosperous Turmoil"

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April 8 - Margaret Thatcher's Ideology Lives on; The Hapless American Jihadist Duped by the FBI; "How Conservatives Still Run America, Despite Losing Elections"

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January 14 - Did the Government Hound an Internet Freedom Fighter to His Death?; The French Intervene in Mali Against the So-called Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb; American's Wages Go Down While Profits Go Up

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May 2 - Terrorism Alarmists Keep Al Qaeda Alive; A Pakistani Lawyer Who Defends Victims of Drone Strikes; A Pacifist Held Hostage by Jihadis

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September 4 - Getting Out of Muslim Lands; Liberating America From Wall Street; Labor Day and Jobs

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