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Radio Times
Politics & Policy

Trans service people / private military contractors

Guests: Sheri Swokowski, Heath Fogg Davis, Sean McFate  We’ll begin today’s show discussing ...

Air Date: July 28, 2017

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Traveling Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall replica in Bucks County this weekend

Over the weekend, a 300-foot replica of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial will be on display in a baseball field in Penndel, Bucks County. As ...

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Ed Luce
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Politics & Policy

Ed Luce on ‘The Retreat of Western Liberalism;’ NJ politics update

Guest: Ed Luce Financial Times columnist ...

Air Date: July 5, 2017

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Detail from The Battle of Princeton
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Revolutionary War stories

Guests: Jill Lapore, Sarah Vowell, Nathaniel Philbrick For this 4th of July, we’re devoting today’s show to s ...

Air Date: July 4, 2017

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the Tet Offensive
Radio Times
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Mark Bowden on “Hue 1968” and North Korea

Guest: Mark Bowden Historians often point to the battle of Huế, part of the Tet Offensive, as the turning point ...

Air Date: July 3, 2017

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a hurricane
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Arts & Entertainment

“Lilli de Jong” and Hurricane prediction and preparation

Guests: Janet Benton, David Titley Local writer JANET BENTON’s ...

Air Date: June 5, 2017

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Churchill & Orwell
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Thomas Ricks on ‘Churchill & Orwell’ and the White House Generals

Guests: Thomas Ricks Journalist and author THOMA ...

Air Date: May 26, 2017

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Police at the site of the Manchester attack
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Trump effect in the Middle East; Manchester terrorist attack

Guests: Rukmini Callimachi, Ali Al-Ahmend, Laura Rozen President Trump wrapped up his tour of the Middle East ear ...

Air Date: May 25, 2017

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Rodrigo Duterte and Vladimir Putin
Radio Times
Politics & Policy

Why authoritarianism?

Guests: Manu Bhagavan, Howard Lavine The people of Turkey recently voted to give president Erdoğan more authorit ...

Air Date: May 4, 2017

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Donald Trump
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Politics & Policy

Trump’s first (almost) 100 days

Guests: James Peterson, Joe Watkins, Charlie Gerow The first 100 days metric that the media uses to scrutinize a ...

Air Date: April 26, 2017

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George Washington's tent
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Arts & Entertainment

Museum of the American Revolution tour; then, N. Korea

Guests: Phillip Mead, Scott Stephenson, Jenny Town George Washington’s executive tent, a piece of the bridge fr ...

Air Date: April 19, 2017

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Trump at a meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping
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Foreign policy roundtable

Guest: Andrew Bacevich, James Kitfield Recent global events are giving the Trump administration their first real ...

Air Date: April 10, 2017

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People play music and dance during the Newroz celebration
Radio Times
Politics & Policy

The Kurds

Guests: Trudy Rubin, Brendan O’Leary The turmoil in the Middle East is  multi-faceted, with shifting, and some ...

Air Date: April 4, 2017

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Riot policemen detain a journalist during a protest rally in St.Petersburg, Russia
Radio Times
Politics & Policy

Trump’s newest EO and the environment; protests in Russia; combating ISIS

Guests: Robinson Meyer, Alec Luhn, Rukmini Callimachi  We have three stories for today’s edit ...

Air Date: March 29, 2017

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FBI Director James Comey
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The FBI is investigating Trump-Russia ties

Guests: Robert Baer, John Dean FBI Director James Comey announced at a House hearing on Monday that they are inve ...

Air Date: March 22, 2017

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