Friday, September 29, 2006

Capitol Hill Approves Detainee Bill; Countering Borat; Drug Wars; Listener Letters; Story Corps

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Thursday, September 28, 2006

HP Hearings; On the Docket; Calls for a Citgo Boycott; An October Surprise?; A Conversation with Kenny Garrett

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Wednesday, September 27, 2006

Legal Status of Detainees; Report: Iraq Breeding Extremists; Musharraf’s U.S. Tour; Bad Pipes; Crazy Cooks; The Tastes of Barcelona

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Tuesday, September 26, 2006

Growing Violence in Afghanistan; A Conversation with Niall Ferguson; Senator Accused of Racism; NASCAR Politicians; Lennon Film

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Monday, September 25, 2006

Congressional Update; Reporter’s Notebook: Borzou Daragahi; Clinton on FOX TV; The Life of Etta Baker; Frederic Franklin

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Friday, September 22, 2006

Bush, Musharraf Meet; Roundtable: Election Countdown; Challenging Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell; Out, Out Damn Spot!; Young Bassist; Your Letters and Calls

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Thursday, September 21, 2006

Immigration Bills; Chinese Lessons; HP Leaks; Tiger Defends Wife; Alexander McCall Smith

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Wednesday, September 20, 2006

Venezuelan President: Bush “The Devil”; United States of Religions; Electronic Voting Machines; Phones on a Plane; Welcome to 2006

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Tuesday, September 19, 2006

Judge Says U.S., Canda Wrong in Rendition Case; Bush Addresses United Nations; Towards a Better World Body; Spotlight on Hidden Costs; Travel News; Author Edward P. Jones; Coup in Thailand

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Monday, September 18, 2006

Fallout from Pope’s Islam Speech; Religon and Politics in Minn.; Whither Lobbying Reform?; Sarah Chayes’s Afghanistan; Cracked is Back; The New TV Season

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Friday, September 15, 2006

News Round-up; “Failure of Imagination”; Sarah Chayes; Ford Slashes More Jobs; Tripod Dogs; Chris Smither

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Thursday, September 14, 2006

Bush Huddles with GOP Lawmakers; Study Finds Wealthier Teens More Troubled; Istanbul to Try Author; Listener Letters; Dodging Turtle, Driving Gets Ticket; Dancer Liz Lerman

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Wednesday, September 13, 2006

Iraq Carnage; A Conversation with Lawrence Wright; Voter IDs; Monopoly Makeover; “My Buddy Slug”

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Tuesday, September 12, 2006

Political Check-in; Suspects Transfered to GITMO; “Boys of Baraka”; Branford Marsalis

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Monday, September 11, 2006

The Nation Remembers; Wife of Victim Remembers; Teaching 9/11 Part II: Textbooks; Haunting Images; CIA Analyst on War on Terror; Afghanistan Update; A Graphic View of 9/11; 9/11 Commissioner Remembers; A View from Above

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Friday, September 8, 2006

ABC Re-edits 9/11 Docudrama; Teaching Kids 9/11; Khatami’s U.S. Tour; First Responders Health Concerns; Vegetative State Study; Claire Messud

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Thursday, September 7, 2006

Bush Terror Trial Plan; Ready or Not?; Terror Policy Critic; Sports Update; To Boldly go to Auction

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Wednesday, September 6, 2006

Bush Unveils GITMO Trials Plan; War of the Words; Making the Grade?; Fried Coke; The Return of Mission of Burma

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Tuesday, September 5, 2006

Counterterrorism Plan; Mexican Exodus; Oil News; Credit Checking Applicants; Pet Novel

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Monday, September 4, 2006

Midterm Elections; Local First; Labor Day; Dictionary; Kitchen Sisters CD

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Friday, May 18, 2012
The Appian Road, in the Monti Aurunci area of Italy. (Robert Kaster/University of Chicago Press)

For many people, this time of year is an occasion for road trips — up and down the coasts, across the U.S., through Europe. For Robert Kaster, it was a time to venture along the most ancient roads of all time: the Appian Way in Italy.

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Friday, May 18, 2012
(Michael M. Phillips/Wall Street Journal)

It was supposed to be a calm ride for marines travelling in Zaranj, along Afghanistan’s border with Iran, but a suicide bomb changed that. Photographer Michael Phillips witnessed the scene unfold and joins us.

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Thursday, May 17, 2012
Musician John Fullbright at Here & Now studios at WBUR in Boston. (Jesse Costa/Here & Now)

Okemah, Okla., is the birthplace of folk legend Woody Guthrie. It’s also the hometown of singer-songwriter John Fullbright, who at just 24, is already being compared with folk great Townes Van Zandt.

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