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Our year-in-review show features, first, IRAQ: the Forever War. DEXTER FILKINS has covered the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan since 2001 for the New York Times. Filkins describes “an arid, hopeless policy” in an unforgettable book: The Forever War. (originally broadcast 9/17/08)
Obama and History: [...]
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The war on Christmas continues! CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS says “Religion poisons everything.” You say religion might not be true, but it provides comfort in the face of suffering and death? Hitchens replies: “How contemptible.” His number one best-seller is God Is Not Great. (Originally broadcast 5/30/07.)
Plus: [...]
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Robert Reich on economics, David Corn on politics, and Juan Cole on shoe-throwing in Baghdad:
ROBERT REICH was Clinton’s Secretary of Labor; now he argues that “What we most lack. . . are the things we use in common – clean air, clean water, public parks, good [...]
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Corruption in Illinois, bankruptcy in Chicago: HAROLD MEYERSON of the Washington Post op-ed page comments on Governor Rod Blagojevich’s arrest for plotting to sell Obama’s senate seat, and on Sam Zell taking the Tribune Co., and the LA Times, into bankruptcy.
Plus: Kafka Comes to America – [...]
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Leftists are worrying about Obama’s national security team—is this the change we need? JOHN NICHOLS will have our Washington-in-Transition update. John is Washington correspondent for The Nation and writes “The Beat” blog at TheNation.com.
Peter Matthiessen won the National Book Award last week – he’s best known [...]