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Electric Cars |
| Episode Number: |
428 - Available on iTunes |
| Synopsis: |
Coming to a showroom near you: electric cars. They're sleek, fast, powerful and, so far, very expensive. |
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The Most Dangerous Place To Join A Union |
| Episode Number: |
427 - Available on iTunes |
| Synopsis: |
Union members in Columbia working for American companies living in fear. Bolivia's tough stance against the U.S. and WHINSEC--was it a school to train assassins? |
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The Trailers--4 Years Later |
| Episode Number: |
426 - Available on iTunes |
| Synopsis: |
A look back at reports on the "Toxic Trailers" of Hurricane Katrina. The stories of what happened to Gulf coast residents who were victims twice. |
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Up on the Farm |
| Episode Number: |
425 - Available on iTunes |
| Synopsis: |
A roundtable discussion on the growing phenomenon of urban farming. |
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A Conversation With Frank Rich |
| Episode Number: |
424 - Available on iTunes |
| Synopsis: |
The New York Times columnist discusses America at war, race relations and the media. |
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A Border Runs Through It |
| Episode Number: |
423 - Available on iTunes |
| Synopsis: |
Few of the thousands of people crossing the Pakistan-Afghanistan border every day are searched or checked. And an Afghan border region where NATO reconstruction efforts are paying off. Also, a conversation on President Obama's recent trip to Russia with scholar Stephen Cohen. |
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Money Man to the World |
| Episode Number: |
422 - Available on iTunes |
| Synopsis: |
An interview with the director of the International Monetary Fund as he tries to save the world from financial chaos. |
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Private Prisons |
| Episode Number: |
421 - Available on iTunes |
| Synopsis: |
Locking up tens of thousands of migrants is making big bucks for private prisons, at taxpayer expense and J Street--a controversial group of American Jews who are advocating peace. |
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7 Years Inside Gitmo |
| Episode Number: |
420 - Available on iTunes |
| Synopsis: |
The first American television interview with a just released terrorism suspect and a tour of the "new" Guantanamo. |
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Rethinking Russia |
| Episode Number: |
419 - Available on iTunes |
| Synopsis: |
A discussion with three prominent Russia scholars on the state of relations between the United States and Russia. |
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The Raid on Imam Sahib |
| Episode Number: |
418 - Available on iTunes |
| Synopsis: |
A close up look at a town in Afghanistan after a raid by US Special Forces. And a rare visit to the Taliban stronghold of Kandahar, Afghanistan. |
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Power from the People |
| Episode Number: |
417 - Available on iTunes |
| Synopsis: |
Germany is moving quickly to develop alternative energy, allowing individual homes to sell excess power to electric companies. Also, Abu Dhabi goes green and an icon of the environmental movement. |
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Operation Helmet |
| Episode Number: |
416 - Available on iTunes |
| Synopsis: |
Battling the military for helmet pads to protect troops against IEDs. Is the drinking water causing cancer at Camp Le Jeune? And learning about the Holocaust firsthand. |
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Revolt |
| Episode Number: |
415 - Available on iTunes |
| Synopsis: |
The Virginia legislature says "no thanks" to federal stimulus money that would have helped some of the state's record number of unemployed. Also, gangs in the military have police worried. Plus, feeding the starving in Afghanistan and a new phenomenon of grocery auctions in the United States. |
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Busted |
| Episode Number: |
414 - Available on iTunes |
| Synopsis: |
Las Vegas now has the dubious distinction of double digit unemployment and a huge number of home foreclosures as the economy goes bust. |
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Everyone's Covered |
| Episode Number: |
413 - Available on iTunes |
| Synopsis: |
In Canada, everyone is covered by medical insurance. But there are often long waits to see doctors or have surgery. Also, an agricultural town where workers who climbed the economic ladder out of the fields are suddenly finding themselves without jobs. And, a conversation on the Middle East with noted scholar Fouad Ajami. |
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Meat Market |
| Episode Number: |
412 - Available on iTunes |
| Synopsis: |
From white tablecloth restaurants to ranches in the Midwest, the economic effect of the recession on the beef industry. Also, noted Harvard law professor Elizabeth Warren. |
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The Swedish Model |
| Episode Number: |
411 - Available on iTunes |
| Synopsis: |
The "Swedish Model" of nationalizing banks is seen as the next step if U.S. banks continue to falter. Also, the simplest explanation of the Obama Administration's banking bailout plan. And lobbyists are mad over new restrictions. |
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A Border Runs Through It |
| Episode Number: |
410 |
| Synopsis: |
Few of the thousands of people crossing the Pakistan-Afghanistan border every day are searched or checked. And an Afghan border region where NATO reconstruction efforts are paying off. |
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Meltdown |
| Episode Number: |
409 - Available on iTunes |
| Synopsis: |
Iceland's government collapses after its banks fail. Also, many small, community bankers in the U.S. are whistling through the recession. |
