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Thursday, April 11, 2013 | 10:00 AM
Two veiled women look at the scantily dressed woman featured in a clothing store billboard in Beirut, Lebanon, Aug. 10, 2004. (AP)

Sex and the Arab world. Shereen El Feki takes us from behind the Saudi veil to the rough streets of Cairo.

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Tuesday, April 2, 2013 | 10:00 AM
In this Sunday, March 31, 2013 photo released by the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) and distributed in Tokyo Monday, April 1, 2013 by the Korea News Service, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un gives a speech during a plenary meeting of the central committee of the ruling Workers' Party in Pyongyang, North Korea. (AP/KCNA via KNS)

North Korea’s war threats go ballistic. We look at how South Korea and the United States are responding.

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Tuesday, March 26, 2013 | 10:00 AM
Russian tycoon Boris Berezovsky, second from left, talks to a reporter after losing his case against Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich as he leaves the High Court in London, Friday, Aug. 31, 2012. (AP)

Russian oligarchs are in the news – for a “haircut” in Cyprus, a death in London, billions all over. We check in on the post-Soviet robber barons.

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Monday, March 25, 2013 | 10:00 AM
In this Tuesday March 19, 2013, citizen journalism image provided by Aleppo Media Center AMC which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, black smoke rise from buildings due to government forces shelling, in Aleppo, Syria. (AP)

Syria and chemical weapons. Where is the red line? What if it’s crossed?

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Tuesday, March 12, 2013 | 10:00 AM
From left, US Cardinals Justin Francis Rigali, Donald Wuerl, Timothy Dolan, Francis George and Roger Mahony leave the North American College to go to the Vatican's Domus Sanctae Martae, the Vatican hotel where the cardinals stay during the conclave, in Rome, Tuesday March 12, 2013. (AP)

The cardinals sit down in Rome. The conclave begins. We look at the politics and prayer of choosing a new pope.

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Wednesday, March 6, 2013 | 10:00 AM
A supporter of Venezuela's late President Hugo Chavez cries as she holds up a poster of Chavez that reads in Spanish "Let's be like Chavez" and "Forbidden to forget" as Chavistas gather in Bolivar square to mourn Chavez's death in Caracas, Venezuela, Tuesday, March 5, 2013. (AP)

Hugo Chavez, dead at 58. We’re looking at what’s ahead for Venezuela.

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Tuesday, March 5, 2013 | 10:00 AM
Free Syrian Army fighters from the Knights of the North brigade move to reconnaissance a Syrian army forces base of al-Karmid, at Jabal al-Zaweya, in Idlib province, Syria, Wednesday, Feb. 27, 2013. (AP)

More refugees pouring out of Syria, more promises of aid for the rebels, and more fears that the radicals will win this fight. We take stock.

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Thursday, February 28, 2013 | 10:00 AM
Pope Benedict XVI greets pilgrims at the end of his general audience in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, Wednesday, Feb. 27, 2013. (AP)

Pope Benedict’s last day. We’re looking at challenges for the Catholic Church and ahead to the conclave.

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Monday, February 25, 2013 | 11:00 AM
Diamond crystals (Kim-bodia/Flickr)

Fifty million dollars in diamonds stolen from a Brussels airport. We’ll look inside the global world of mega heists.

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Wednesday, February 13, 2013 | 11:00 AM
Singapore's former Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew talks with U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, unseen, at the Istana, or Presidential Palace, on Friday Nov. 16, 2012 in Singapore. (AP)

The collected insights of Asia’s senior statesman, Singapore’s Lee Kuan Yew on the U.S., China and what the future holds.

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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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Switching Shows For Our Second Hour Today
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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