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Monday, May 13, 2013 | 11:00 AM
Police direct cars to pumps while people stand in line with containers for gas in the wake of Superstorm Sandy, on Friday, Nov. 9, 2012 in the Brooklyn borough of New York. Police were at gas stations to enforce a new gasoline rationing plan that lets motorists fill up every other day. (AP)

A new book says rationing—of food, energy and more—is in our future. We hear the case, and the pushback.

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Monday, May 13, 2013 | 10:00 AM
Supporters of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf or Moment for Justice party attend an election campaign rally in Islamabad, Pakistan, Thursday, May 9, 2013 (AP)

Hope and fear in Pakistan. An historic election day and high stakes all over. We go there.

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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 9, 2013 | 10:00 AM
The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, led by Chairman Darrell Issa, R-Calif., holds a hearing about last year's deadly assault on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, May 8, 2013. Left to right are witnesses Mark Thompson, the State Department's acting deputy assistant secretary for counterterrorism, Gregory Hicks, former deputy chief of mission in Libya, and Eric Nordstrom, the State Department's former regional security officer in Libya. (J. Scott Applewhite/AP)

Benghazi, again. New hearings this week on the attacks and the aftermath. We look at the facts and factionalism.

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Tuesday, May 7, 2013 | 10:00 AM
The Senate immigration bill includes a provision that favors temporary work visas for computer specialists. (Bill Selak/Flickr)

The high-tech end of immigration reform. Silicon Valley is buying a lot of access on Capitol Hill. They want more to welcome more foreign engineers. We’ll look at why.

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Monday, May 6, 2013 | 10:00 AM
In this April 16, 2013 video frame grab reviewed by the U.S. military, a shackled detainee meets with medical personnel in Camp 6, at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, in Cuba. (Suzette Laboy/AP)

The Guantanamo horror show. Prisoners on a hunger strike and big questions about justice and what to do with the detainees.

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Wednesday, December 31, 1969 | 11:00 AM

We talked about the possibility of U.S. intervention in Syria today, with Shadi Hamid — director of research at the Brookings Doha Center — and Joshua Landis — director of the Center for Middle East Studies at the University of Oklahoma.

 
Monday, April 29, 2013 | 10:00 AM
U.S. Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel speaks with reporters after reading a statement on chemical weapon use in Syria during a press conference in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates on Thursday, April 25, 2013. (AP)

The question over Syria. Chemical weapons use has been charged. The “red line,” but uncertain. Should the US intervene?

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Thursday, April 25, 2013 | 11:00 AM
North Koreans walk bicycles along a street in Kaesong, North Korea, north of the demilitarized zone which separates the two Koreas, Tuesday, April 23, 2013. (AP)

Inside North Korea. We talk with the Pulitzer-Prize winning author of The Orphan Masters Son.

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Sunday, April 14, 2013 | 10:00 AM
Protesters from CODEPINK, a group opposed to U.S. militarism, including co-founder Medea Benjamin, center, disrupt the start of the Senate Intelligence Committee confirmation hearing for John Brennan, Thursday, Feb. 7, 2013, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP)

From spymasters to killing machines, New York Times Reporter Mark Mazzetti on the CIA’s transformation, and its chilling impact on how we fight wars.

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May 22, 2013
Apple CEO Tim Cook is sworn in on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, May 21, 2013, prior to testifying before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Permanent subcommittee on Investigations hearing. (J. Scott Applewhite/AP)

Apple in the hot seat. Lawmakers say the company dodged billions in taxes on overseas profits. We’ll look at the world of off shore tax escapes.

May 22, 2013
A woman carries her child through a field near the collapsed Plaza Towers Elementary School in Moore, Okla., Monday, May 20, 2013. (Sue Ogrocki/AP)

After Oklahoma’s giant twister, does Tornado Alley need to change the way it builds and lives in the age of superstorms?

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May 21, 2013
Henry Ford sits at the tiller of his first automobile, the Quadricycle, in front of the John Wanamaker salesroom on Broadway between 49th and 50th Streets in New York City in 1904. (AP)

The controversial and brilliant Henry Ford and the world he invented.

 
May 21, 2013
Detail from the book jacket of "The Unwinding: An Inner History Of The New America" by George Packer. (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)

New Yorker writer George Packer’s inside history of the great unwinding of America’s 20th century way of life and where we stand now.

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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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