Tuesday, July 31, 2007

Hearings on Joint Chiefs Nominee; A Nuclear Renaissance?; Trident Challenge; Murdoch Buys Journal; “The View” Arab Style

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Monday, July 30, 2007

Anxious Investors Eye Wall Street; Congressional Preview; Law Professor: Impeach Gonzales; One Laptop Per Child; Remembering Bergman; Return of Stax

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Friday, July 27, 2007

DUI at NASA?; Crazy in America; Identity Fraud: Chocolate and Maple Syrup; Firing Away at a Fundraiser, Literally; Cooking Lesson

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Thursday, July 26, 2007

Debate About Iraq; Dangerous Missions; States Take on Global Warming; Feline Grim Reeper; Dark Week in the World of Sports

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Wednesday, July 25, 2007

Healthcare for Wounded Veterans; The U.S. and Iran After 30 Years; A Look at the 2007 Farm Bill; Searching for Earhart; Return to Music

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Tuesday, July 24, 2007

General Rick Lynch on Iraq; Gonzales on the Defensive, Again; Gonzales Before the Senate; Teen Driving Surveillance; Buzzword: “Homeland”; Tabla Master Suphala

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Monday, July 23, 2007

Auto Industry Talks; Murdoch and The Wall Street Journal; Getting “Hyper-local”; Florida Sexual Assault Case; Confiscated at the Airport; A Kid’s-Eye View of Potter Book

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Friday, July 20, 2007

More Time in Iraq; Ban The Home Run?; HIV-Tainted Infants; Harry and the Potters; Baghdad Follies

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Thursday, July 19, 2007

Manhatten Steam Pipe Explosion; Gertrude Bell; Moqtada Al Sadr, Ally of the U.S.?; Letters; “Spring Awakening”

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Wednesday, July 18, 2007

Iraq Vote Blocked in Senate; Shameful Chapter of American History; Catholic Church No Longer in Crisis?; FDA and Cigarettes; A Tribute to Joni and Ella

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Tuesday, July 17, 2007

Report: Al Qaeda Likley to Hit U.S.; Nation: U.S. Troops Brutalized Iraqis; China Food Safety; Bad Meat; Ron Carter’s Letter to Miles

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Monday, July 16, 2007

North Korea Reactor; Pax Americana; Edwards on Poverty Tour; Soldier Honored; Remembering JFK Jr.

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Friday, July 13, 2007

What Now For McCain?; Tweens Online; How to Master a Seismic Disaster; Science’s Worst Jobs; James Hunter

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Thursday, July 12, 2007

President Gives Update on Iraq; Surgeon General Nominee Appears Before Senate; Politics and the Surgeon General; Plastic Bag Lady; The Week in Sports; Harry’s Fate

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Wednesday, July 11, 2007

Chertoff’s “Gut Feeling”; Saudi Novelist; Post-Potter; Traveling Bees; Blobfest 2007

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Tuesday, July 10, 2007

Energy Supplies; Iraqi Refugee Crisis; Executive Privilege; Rap 802; Revolution 1967

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Monday, July 9, 2007

Dire Consequences; Washington’s Iraq Clock Ticks Again; Time To Go?; Pediatric Innovation; “iSolation”; Alexander McCall Smith

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Friday, July 6, 2007

Mosque Siege in Pakistan; Brown’s Slave Past; The Return of Spinal Tap; Daniel Handler; Daniel Handler Continued

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Thursday, July 5, 2007

Terror Update; The Great Outside; Shut Up and Work; Simpsons Movie; Simpsons Movie; Chad Vader

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Wednesday, July 4, 2007

BBC Reporter Alan Johnston Released; The Fabric Of America; Lakota Artifacts; Best Bathrooms; The New Boston Tea Party

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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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