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Wendell Potter / David Ignatius / Wladimir van Wilgenburg

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12.11.24 - 3:00pm

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Wall Street’s Role in Why We Have the Worst and Most Expensive “Healthcare” in the Developed World
How Ukrainian Military Intelligence Helped the Syrian Rebels
The Vulnerability of the Kurds to Erdogan’s Murderous Militia in the New Syria


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John J. Donohue / Anthony Grasso / John Stoehr

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12.10.24 - 3:00pm

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Ghost Guns Now a Proven Untraceable and Undetectable Tool For Assassins
America’s Dual System of Justice: Punishing Street Criminals While Corporate CEO’s Get a Slap on the Wrist
Kash Patel’s FBI Will Go After Trump’s Enemies While Opening up the U.S. to Putin’s Spies


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Paul Pillar / Nancy Okail

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12.09.24 - 3:00pm

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How the Islamist Capture of Syria Upends Regional and Global Geopolitics
How Americans Need an Alternative to the Choice Between Trump’s “America First” Unilateralism and Biden’s “America is Back” Nostalgia


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Eric Kingson / Richard Beck

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12.05.24 - 3:00pm

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“It’s Going to Be Fun” Says Ramaswamy, Who Along With Musk Will Try to Cut $2 Trillion By Targeting Social Security and Medicare
How 9/11 Made the Trump Presidency Possible and Hollowed Out the Very Idea Of Citizenship in the U.S.


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Sarah Anderson / Joshua Landis / Stavroula Pabst

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12.04.24 - 3:00pm

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The Champion of Working Class Voters’ Big Con, As Trump Forms a Government Of, By, and For Plutocrats
The Syria Rebels Just Blew Up Secret U.S.-Israel-UAE Efforts to Lure Assad Away From Iran
What Trump’s Pick of Feinberg as Number Two at DOD Means For the Silicon Valley Defense Tech Takeover of the Pentagon Budget


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Stephen Noerper / Juan Cole / David Shapiro

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12.03.24 - 3:00pm

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South Korea’s President Yoon Declares Martial Law Then Has to Back Down
Trump Threatens There’ll Be “All Hell To Pay in the Middle East” If Hamas Does Not Release the Hostages Before His Inauguration
Will the Apolitical Rank and File at the FBI Survive a Fanatical Pro-Trump Ideologue as Their Director?


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Robert Kuttner / William Arkin / Steven Simon

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12.02.24 - 3:00pm

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If the Senate Has Hearings, Hegseth, Gabbard, and RFK Jr. Will Not Be Confirmed
Trump’s Envoy To Ukraine, General Kellogg, and His Plan to End the War
With Iran and Hezbollah on the Ropes, Syrian Rebels Backed By Turkey Make Surprising Gains


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Harry Litman / Reverend Dr. Liz Theoharis / Jon Rosenthal

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11.28.24 - 3:00pm

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Jack Smith Leaves Trump’s Many Crimes to the Judgement of History
A Third Reconstruction Based on Moral Values Like a Living Wage and Health Care
A Third Woman Died in Texas While Doctors Stood by Unable to Treat Her Because of the State’s Cruel Abortion Laws


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Harry Litman / Reverend Dr. Liz Theoharis / Jon Rosenthal

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11.27.24 - 3:00pm

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Jack Smith Leaves Trump’s Many Crimes to the Judgement of History
A Third Reconstruction Based on Moral Values Like a Living Wage and Health Care
A Third Woman Died in Texas While Doctors Stood by Unable to Treat Her Because of the State’s Cruel Abortion Laws


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Scott Kennedy / Guadalupe Correa-Cabrera / Habib Battah

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11.26.24 - 3:00pm

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Trump Declares a Day One Trade War on China, Mexico, and Canada
Tariffs on Mexico Will Not Solve Immigration or Drug Consumption in the U.S.
An Update on the Ceasefire Deal Between Israel and Hezbollah


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