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September 22 - The Crisis on Turkey's Southern Border; An Update on the U.N. Summit on Climate Change; The Koch Brothers Fund "Economic Freedom" Courses on U.S. Campuses

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September 21 - The Looming Threat of Climate Change; An Organizer of the People's Climate March; "Can Obama Save Himself?"

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September 8 - Ebola Spreading Out of Control in Liberia; The Exaggerated Fear of the Islamic State; Latino Fury at the President Delaying Immigration Reform

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August 27 - Assad's Cynical Attempt to Ally with the U.S.; The Economics of Ebola Treatment; The Record Melting of the World's Largest Ice Sheets

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June 24 - The Risky Business Initiative on Climate Change; A Rebooted DISCLOSE Act; Subsidized by Blue States, Mississippi's Pork-Ladeling Senator Threatened by the State's Moochers

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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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May 7 - Nigeria's Corrupt Elite Exposed; A Witness to the Massacres in South Sudan; The Brain's Amygdala and Conservative Politics

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May 6 - A New Report on the Clear and Present Danger of Climate Change; The Fault Line Between Islam and Christianity in Nigeria; The Dire Need for Diplomacy in Ukraine

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April 22 - America's Middle Class and Poor Slip Below Other Advanced Nations; The State of the Earth on the 44th Earth Day; Losing the Car and Going Green

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March 31 - A Critique of Obama's Handling of Putin; An Examination of the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's New Report with Elizabeth Kolbert

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