Friday, June 29, 2007

Supreme Court to Hear Detainee Appeals; Lessons of Ruby Ridge; Immigration Reform Reaction; The Russians Are Coming! Circa 2007; Summer of Love

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Thursday, June 28, 2007

Immigration Bill Killed; Supreme Court Review; Northern Ireland’s Economics Minister; This Week in Sports; Joseph Cornell’s Tiny Universes

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Wednesday, June 27, 2007

Congressional Hearings on Iraq; The Vice Presidency; Blackstone Backlash; Clean Flying; Define-A-Thon

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Tuesday, June 26, 2007

Lake Tahoe Fires; China’s Route 66; Waiting For The Vote; Lost In Translation; Putting “Sicko” Under The Scalpel

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Monday, June 25, 2007

Iraq Bombing Rash; Cell Phone Security Abuse; Rulings From the High Court; Listener Comments; “The Emperor’s Children”

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Friday, June 22, 2007

What’s Going on in Congress; Soaring With Fidel; Life in Gaza; The Return of Paula Cole; A Conversation with Paula Cole, Continued

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Thursday, June 21, 2007

Afghanistan: The Forgotten War; Tax Holdouts; Judiciary Hearings; This Week in Sports; Tunes and Food for the Summer

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Wednesday, June 20, 2007

Stem Cell Veto; How Doctors Think; Virginia Tech Killer, Collector of Injustices; Atlantis Gets Set to Return; Coco Fusco Takes on Torture

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Tuesday, June 19, 2007

Deadly Blaze; Two State Solution?; Veternans’ Suicide Rate; Mental Health Care Crunch; Found on the Internet

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Monday, June 18, 2007

Assessing Abbas; Storm Warning; An Alcoholics Anonymous Cult?; “Unschooling”; “The Devil in the Kitchen”

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Friday, June 15, 2007

The Immigration Bill is Back; Inside the Lobbying Business; More Cafe Anyone?; An Old Whale’s Tale; Stonewall Kitchen Favorites; “Stonewall Kitchen Favorites”

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Thursday, June 14, 2007

Gaza in Crisis; Khaled Hosseini; Halberstam Memorial; From Pulitzer to Paris; Father and Son

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Wednesday, June 13, 2007

Shiite Mosque Attacked in Iraq; Palestinian Struggles in “The Iron Cage”; US Army Regulates Soldiers’ Blogging; We Hear From You; Documenting State Legislature: The Monumental and Mundane

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Tuesday, June 12, 2007

Terminal Blues; Pakistan at the Crossroads?; Gulf War I Health Problems; Don’t Know Much About History; “The Titan’s Curse”

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Monday, June 11, 2007

No Confidence in Gonzales?; Futurist Andrew Zolli’s View of the World; Extraordinary Rendition; Ciao, Sopranos!; “Stroke of Genius”

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Friday, June 8, 2007

Day One of CIA Extraordinary Rendition Trial; New Heights: Skycrapers; Murdoch to Buy Wall Street Journal?; Bridging Anthropology and Engineering at MIT; Mrs. Goose Goes to Washington

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Thursday, June 7, 2007

Cold War Redux?; The State of Columbia; Lute Before Senate; Sports Update with Bill Littlefield; The Father, Son and Baseball

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Wednesday, June 6, 2007

Investigation of Tuberculosis Case; Unspun: Fact Checking Iraq; Exeter Responds to Republican Debate; Therapy Ethics and the Sopranos; Trading I-Pods with Bob Dylan?

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Tuesday, June 5, 2007

Former Cheney Aid Sentenced to Prison; What Motivates Women Suicide Bombers?; G-8 Preview; Wildfire Risks; Insect Melodies

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Monday, June 4, 2007

Caribbean Connection; Unlikely Pentagon Gadfly; What’s to Eat?; Great Lines from Great Writers of Today; Billy Connolly

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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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