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  • This season on Things That Go Boom, we’re starting in Canada, because four years after January 6th, we want — we need — to understand our own divide. In 1970, Canada’s streets were full of troops and the country was on edge. Quebec cabinet minister Pierre Laporte had been captured by a militant French separatist[...]
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  • When Members of Congress are sworn into office, they say an oath.  To protect the country from all enemies… foreign and domestic.  But what does a domestic enemy look like? And how can they be stopped?  Four years after January 6th,  we're turning our eyes on the US to ask, “in our divided times, how[...]
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  • When former US Navy Intelligence Officer Andrew McCormick spent the holiday season in Kandahar in 2013, attempts at holiday cheer were everywhere. But few were more out-of-touch than the generic care packages sent from civilians who knew nothing about him — or the war he was fighting.  Part of our series of monologues in partnership[...]
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The months and years have gone by and what used to be 100 percent, don't worry about this, we can handle this. This is not 100 percent anymore. I can't tell my friends in good conscience that that there aren't dangers now and that we haven't, sort of, failed to figure out how to work through this problem. And I don't think that's any one particular administration's fault or any one person's fault. I mean I will say that I think dropping out of the Agreed Framework has proven to be a poor decision and that's what worries me so much about the Iran Deal is that we have something that may indeed be imperfect. But it's something. We can build on that.

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The months and years have gone by and what used to be 100 percent, don’t worry about this, we can handle this. This is not 100 percent anymore. I can’t tell my friends in good conscience that that there aren’t dangers now and that we haven’t, sort of, failed to figure out how to work through this problem. And I don’t think that’s any one particular administration’s fault or any one person’s fault. I mean I will say that I think dropping out of the Agreed Framework has proven to be a poor decision and that’s what worries me so much about the Iran Deal is that we have something that may indeed be imperfect. But it’s something. We can build on that.

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