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Wednesday, May 15, 2013 | 10:00 AM
The exterior of the Internal Revenue Service building in Washington, Friday, March 22, 2013. (AP)

Uproar over the IRS and its inquiries. Over snooping on the AP. We tackle both.

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Friday, May 10, 2013 | 10:00 AM
Welcome home signs are shown near Seymour Street where three women were found in Cleveland, Ohio, Thursday, May 9, 2013, after being missing for ten years. (David Duprey/AP)

The Cleveland horrors. Dow 15,000. More sexual assault in the U.S. military. Mark Sanford. Our weekly news roundtable goes behind the headlines.

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Thursday, May 2, 2013 | 10:00 AM
President Barack Obama answers questions during his new conference in the Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, April 30, 2013. (AP)

Barack Obama and presidential leadership. The “juice” question. Does he have it?

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Friday, April 12, 2013 | 10:00 AM
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, right, shakes hands with unidentified South Korean Air Force soldiers upon his arrival at Seoul military airport in Seongnam, South Korea, Friday, April 12, 2013. (AP)

Maybe a gun deal. Maybe an immigration deal. And who knows on North Korea? Our weekly news roundtable goes behind the headlines.

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Thursday, March 21, 2013 | 10:00 AM
Neil Heslin, the father of a six-year-old boy who was slain in the Sandy Hook massacre in Newtown, Conn., on Dec. 14, holds a picture of himself with his son Jesse and wipes his eye while testifying on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Feb. 27, 2013, before the Senate Judiciary Committee on the Assault Weapons Ban of 2013. (AP)

Three months after Sandy Hook. Will gun reform be gutted in the U.S. Senate? Is it happening right now?

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Thursday, March 14, 2013 | 10:00 AM
The White House in Washington is seen on Wednesday, March 6, 2013. (AP)

Barack Obama was a controversial pathbreaker in putting big private money in campaign politics. Now he’s doing it in the White House. We investigate.

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Wednesday, March 6, 2013 | 11:00 AM
People wait in line outside the Supreme Court in Washington, Wednesday, Feb. 27,2013, to listen to oral arguments in the Shelby County, Ala., v. Holder voting rights case. (AP)

The Supreme Court heard a challenge to the Voting Rights Act. Is it still needed? We ask Shelby County, Alabama.

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Wednesday, February 20, 2013 | 11:00 AM
Vernon Hugh Bowman, a 75-year-old Indiana soybean farmer, accompanied by his attorney Mark Walters, walk outside the Supreme Court in Washington (J. Scott Applewhite/AP)

An Indiana farmer takes his case against Monsanto seed control to the U.S. Supreme Court.

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Tuesday, February 19, 2013 | 10:00 AM
The Capital building in Washington. (J. Scott Applewhite/AP)

Sequestration is on its way. The next budget cliff. We’ll look at what all those cuts would mean for the country.

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Monday, February 18, 2013 | 10:00 AM
From right to left, Sen. Jack Reed, D-R.I., Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., and Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, finish a news conference at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, Feb. 14, 2013. The senators urged Republicans to lift their opposition to President Barack Obama's choice to lead the federal Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Richard Cordray, who was a recess appointment. (AP)

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau under attack. We’re looking at who’s attacking what, and why.

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May 17, 2013
Attorney General Eric Holder gestures as he testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, May 15, 2013, before the House Judiciary Committee oversight hearing on the Justice Department. (AP)

IRS and AP scandals. White House damage control. More military sex abuse. Angelina Jolie. Our weekly news roundtable goes behind the headlines.

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Great quotations. What makes them? And how they shape our language and our view of the world

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May 16, 2013
U.S. pianist , composer and music producer Burt Bacharach performs during a concert at the Arena Civica in Milan, Italy, Wedneday, July 6, 2011. (AP)

The wizard of pop. From “Raindrops” to “Walk On By.” Burt Bacharach joins us with his new memoir of a life in music.

 
May 16, 2013
Graduates from various institutions take part in the Toss Your Caps: Philly Graduates College photo opportunity on the steps of the Philadelphia Museum of Art Friday, May 20, 2011, in Philadelphia. (AP)

Nobel-prize winning economist Joseph Stiglitz on how student debt is crushing the American dream, and what to do about it.

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Friday, May 17, 2013

Adventures in live radio. Richard Snow, our guest for our show on Henry Ford, was held up — possibly by a faulty Model T? — so we’re running a terrific archive show on great quotations.

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Floyd Abrams On Obama Vs. Nixon
Wednesday, May 15, 2013

Floyd Abrams — one of the country’s leading authorities on the First Amendment — joined us today to talk about revelations that the Justice Department seized two months of phone records from the Associated Press.

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Dr. Judy Garber On Angelina Jolie’s Cancer Decision
Tuesday, May 14, 2013

Dr. Judy Garber — director of the Center for Cancer Genetics and Prevention at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute — joined us for the final segment of our show today to talk about star Angelina Jolie’s decision to undergo a preventative double mastectomy.

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