Hour 1 The Presidential election is six months away and the race is heating up. Political ads by the campaigns and Super PACs are popping up around the country.  Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney has released two ads that lay out what he'd do on his first day in office if elected — cuts taxes, [...]

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Hour 2 Naturalist BERNIE KRAUSE has spent forty years listening to and recording the natural world. He’s traveled the world, capturing the sounds of over fifteen thousand species and making four thousand hours of wild music – insect larvae, snapping shrimp, Algonquin wolves, coral reefs, baby vultures and crying beavers. And many of the animals [...]

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Hour 2 According to our guest, two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist STEVE COLL, ExxonMobil makes over $450 billion a year, the size of Norway’s GDP and about 3 percent of the U.S. GDP, positioning it as the largest company in the world, just ahead of Apple. The publicly traded ExxonMobil’s work in gas and oil exploration, [...]

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Hour 1 JAMES FALLOWS’ new book, “China Airborne,” combines his two passions: flight & China. More than two-thirds of the new airports under construction today are being built in China; Chinese airlines expect to triple their fleet size over the next decade; and China is buying up American companies that manufacture airplanes and their parts. [...]

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Hour 1 Combat advisors have been vital actors in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, as they train indigenous security forces to fight their own conflicts. Our guest, OWEN WEST, a third-generation Marine, says military advising is a task many generals don’t understand, as he led a small group of U.S. reservists, Marines and Iraqi [...]

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Hour 2 JOSE ANTONIO VARGAS helped The Washington Post win the Pulitzer Prize in 2007 with his coverage of the Virginia Tech massacre, and covered the 2008 campaign. But the heralded reporter isn’t covering this campaign, though he is deeply engaged in the coverage of a key political issue this year: illegal immigration. In a [...]

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Hour 1 President Obama flew into Afghanistan last week for a surprise visit on the one-year anniversary of the U.S. military raid into neighboring Pakistan that killed al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden. Speaking to a global audience, President Obama previewed this summer’s scheduled withdrawal of 23,000 U.S. troops from Aghanistan, announced a NATO goal for [...]

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Hour 1 Americans make a lot of trash, more than any other country in the world. In fact, each of us produces around 7.1 pounds of garbage a day, or roughly 102 tons in a lifetime. And trash turns out to be America’s top export; we ship a lot of it to China every year. [...]

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Hour 1 [REBROADCAST] Just over a hundred years ago, Roald Amundsen and four companions were the first human beings to stand at the South Pole. Using skis and dog sleds they beat Robert Falcon Scott’s British expedition by just a few weeks. Scott and his men reached the South Pole only to find Amundsen’s Norwegian [...]

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BRISA DE ANGULO is a student at Rutgers School of Law-Camden and a co-founder of  Centro Una Brisa De Esperanza (CUBE), or A Breeze of Hope Center — the only place in Bolivia specializing in providing comprehensive assistance for children who are victims of sexual abuse. De Angulo herself was repeatedly raped by an adult [...]

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