Military
The debate over the use of unmanned drones over U.S. skies
GUESTS: BEN GIELOW and JAY STANLEY In five years the Federal Aviation Administration estimates ...
Air Date: March 12, 2013
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Guests: George Ciccariello-Maher, Francisco Toro Last week, former Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez died after a ...
Air Date: March 11, 2013
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The civil war in Syria: The conflict, U.S. policy and how might it end
GUESTS: SAMER ABBOUD and ANDREW TABLER Last week, for the first time since the civil war in Syria began two yea ...
Air Date: March 6, 2013
ListenHour 1 Guests: Carol Rosenberg, Benjamin Wittes, David Frakt At least 31 prisoners at the ...
Air Date: March 1, 2013
Nuclear weapons and nonproliferation
GUEST: WARD WILSON North Korea conducted its third underground nuclear test last week, the same day President ...
Air Date: February 21, 2013
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Cybersecurity and the growing threats
Guests: SIOBHAN GORMAN, ALAN PALLER and JAMES LEWIS On Tuesday, President Obama signed ...
Air Date: February 14, 2013
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Analyzing the State of the Union address and the Republican response
Guests: Ben Berger, Lara Brown and Imani Perry Last night, before Congress and the nation, President Obama addr ...
Air Date: February 13, 2013
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The Obama administration’s use of drones for targeted killings has been drawing increasing attention and criticism from some. In his ...
Air Date: February 8, 2013
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Opera Philadelphia premieres Pulitzer Prize-winning Silent Night
On Christmas Eve, 1914, in the midst of shelling on the Western Front of World War 1, lower-ranking troops spontaneously created a truce, ...
Air Date: February 8, 2013
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The ongoing threat of al-Qaeda
In her Congressional testimony last week regarding the attack on an American consulate in Benghazi, Hillary Clinton said that the recent ...
Air Date: January 29, 2013
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An end to the combat ban for women
Last week Defense Secretary Leon Panetta announced that he was ending the military’s ban on women serving in combat positions. “Femal ...
Air Date: January 28, 2013
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The Inauguration and Obama’s next term
Yesterday President Obama was sworn into his second term as commander in chief of the United States , something that has only happened ...
Air Date: January 22, 2013
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Journalist Mark Bowden on “The Finish” of Osama bin Laden
[REBROADCAST] Journalist MARK BOWDEN r ...
Air Date: January 11, 2013
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The President’s national security team nominations and the future of foreign policy
In nominating Senator John Kerry as Secretary of State, Senator Chuck Hagel as Secretary of Defense and White House counter-terrorism adv ...
Air Date: January 10, 2013
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Congress, politics and the fiscal cliff
In the wee hours of January 1, the Senate passed legislation that would raise taxes on the wealthiest Americans — those earning ove ...
Air Date: January 2, 2013
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