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First, in Thank You for Your Service, David Finkel has entwined the stories of the deployment experiences of the 2-16 Infantry Battalion with the s...

Bought by WCNY and WCWP


  • Added: Oct 29, 2013
  • Length: 59:54
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Naomi Benaron
The novel, Running the Rift, follows the life of young Jean Patrick. He’s a gifted Rwandan boy. He knows that running will be his future. What he ...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Sep 16, 2013
  • Length: 19:35
  • Purchases: 1
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Historian Ann Marie Wilson talks with host Brian Balogh about the call for intervention in Armenia during the early 1890s, and how arguments about ...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, Radio Newark, and KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Sep 16, 2013
  • Length: 07:12
  • Purchases: 3
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Host Brian Balogh talks with former aid worker David Koren about his experiences during the Biafran airlift in the late 1960s, and explores whether...

Bought by Radio Newark


  • Added: Sep 16, 2013
  • Length: 09:09
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Host Martha Burk
Two and one half minute commentary on the debate about bombing Syria, and the domestic trade-offs.

  • Added: Sep 05, 2013
  • Length: 02:30
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Host Brian Balough explores the meaning of "wartime" with Mary Dudziak, an historian at Emory University's School of Law. Well after V-J Day, Dudz...

Bought by WEZU, Radio Newark, KBRP Community Radio, and PRX Remix


  • Added: May 06, 2013
  • Length: 10:50
  • Purchases: 4
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This week on Interchange, host Shanna Ritter speaks with Douglas Wissing. Mr. Wissing is a journalist, independent scholar, and author who has rece...

  • Added: Mar 20, 2013
  • Length: 53:12
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President Obama called al-Qaeda a "shadow of its former self," but the organization is making inroads in Mali and Algeria and some say it is as dan...

  • Added: Feb 19, 2013
  • Length: 02:11
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Radio Curious brings you an interview about torture from our archives in 2006. Our guest is Dr. Steven Miles, author of “Oath Betrayed: Torture, M...

  • Added: Sep 03, 2012
  • Length: 29:01
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Reese Erlich brings us a special report from Libya on the chaos that remains in the wake of the overthrow of hated dictator Muammar Gaddafi. While ...

  • Added: Jul 16, 2012
  • Length: 29:01
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After the recent highly publicized stories of American military members desecrating the remains of Taliban soldiers, many in the U.S. armed forces ...

  • Added: Apr 30, 2012
  • Length: 02:05
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It's been almost a year since demonstrations started in Syria and the government crackdown gets bloodier every day. With sanctions not producing re...

  • Added: Feb 28, 2012
  • Length: 02:00
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Recent allegations of an Iranian assassination plot in the United States have once again raised doubts about the effectiveness of sanctions. As con...

  • Added: Nov 21, 2011
  • Length: 02:00
Caption: 1814 Thomson Map of Persia
News and features on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan

  • Added: Nov 18, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
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News and features on the wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Libya.

  • Added: Nov 11, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
Caption: A scene from our first panel of our 2011 season!, Credit: Viera Levitt
Did a Fox guarding a hen house get it right, and if so, how?

Bought by WCPN, WRIR, KALW, Spokane Public Radio, KIOS-FM Omaha Public Radio and more


  • Added: Oct 17, 2011
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 8
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As the UN Security Council weighs the Palestinian bid, is the U.S. right to oppose UN membership? Would Palestinian membership to the UN threaten f...

  • Added: Oct 03, 2011
  • Length: 02:00
Caption: An ANA soldier inspects opium during operation in Helmand Provence, Credit: Wikimedia Commons
News and features on the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Libya

  • Added: Sep 30, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
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Is a far-reaching Chinese navy a threat to American naval superiority or to the West? Is China simply a major power, peacefully rising and pursuing...

  • Added: Sep 26, 2011
  • Length: 02:00
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News and features on the wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Libya.

  • Added: Sep 16, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
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As we take stock of the decade since 9/11, the lessons we have learned are still unclear. Ten years on, analysts impart contentious lessons that ma...

  • Added: Sep 13, 2011
  • Length: 02:00
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As Libya prepares for its future, do NATO member states have a moral responsibility to protect peace and stability? Or should Libya's future be of ...

  • Added: Aug 29, 2011
  • Length: 02:00
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News and features on the wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Libya.

  • Added: Aug 26, 2011
  • Length: 29:04
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News and features from Libya, Iraq and Afghanistan.

  • Added: Aug 12, 2011
  • Length: 29:04
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News and features from Libya, Iraq and Afghanistan.

  • Added: Aug 05, 2011
  • Length: 29:00