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Music of Place: Remembering the Genius of Phil Aaberg.
Going local, to address the universal.
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A Speech for the History Books.
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‘Blind Into Caracas.’
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“We’re No Longer Having a Political Debate. We’re Having a Moral Debate.”
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The Arrogance of Ignorance.
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The Post-Trump Era Is Beginning.
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The Post-Trump Era Is Beginning.
Four ways of thinking about what comes next.
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Trump Lands in Beijing: What I'm Watching For.
The Chinese are ready. And the US???
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What We Don't Know, Can Kill Us: Part 3.
A quick trip through the past 35 years. What Iran remembers and (most) Americans don't. And why that matters.
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‘Be Not Simply Good. Be Good for Something.’
As American and Israeli bombs fall on Tehran, an Iranian scholar looks to Henry David Thoreau for connection and guidance.
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What We Don't Know, Can Kill Us: Part 2.
Ronald Reagan's legacy lives on in many ways, good and bad. But Americans have forgotten too much about what he did with, and to, Iran. Here's why that…
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What We Don’t Know, Can Kill Us.
The battle of memories behind the US war on Iran. Part 1.
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‘I Fly With the Eagles.’
How a mock-combat drill in an F-15 looked, from the back seat.
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