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January 18, 2021 Presidential Inaugural Addresses
Sarada Peri, senior speechwriter for President Barack Obama, and John McConnell, senior speechwriter for President George W. Bush, join us to talk about presidential inaugural addresses, from JFK to the upcoming inaugural address of President-elect Joe Biden.

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1 hr 4 min
January 11, 2021 Helen Andrews, Author, "Boomers"
Helen Andrews, senior editor at The American Conservative magazine, takes a critical look at the Baby Boomer Generation and argues that they have left subsequent generations, especially Millennials, worse off.

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1 hr 1 min
December 28, 2020 Nic Novicki, Founder and Director, Easterseals Disability Film Challenge
Actor Nic Novicki, founder and director of the Easterseals Disability Film Challenge, talks about the 2020 entries and the winning films in three categories: best awareness campaign, best editor, and best film.

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1 hr 1 min
December 21, 2020 Jake Wood, Author of "Once a Warrior"
Jake Wood talks about serving with the U.S. Marines in Iraq and Afghanistan and with Team Rubicon, the disaster response organization that he co-founded with a fellow Marine in 2010. Seventy percent of the over 100,000 U.S. volunteers that serve with Team Rubicon are military veterans.

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1 hr
December 15, 2020 New Members of Congress
This week on Q&A we talk with the youngest women in the freshmen class of 117th Congress, Republican Kat Cammack of Florida and Democrat Sara Jacobs of California. They discuss their backgrounds and what they hope to accomplish in office.

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1 hr 1 min
December 07, 2020 Susan Schulten and Eric Rauchway, Historians on contentious presidential transitions
Historians Susan Schulten and Eric Rauchway talk about two of the most contentious presidential transitions in U.S. history - in 1861, between James Buchanan and Abraham Lincoln, and in 1933, between Herbert Hoover and Franklin Roosevelt.

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1 hr
November 30, 2020 Elaine Weiss, Author "The Woman's Hour"
Journalist and author Elaine Weiss discussed her book, "The Woman's Hour," about the lead-up to the ratification of the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution on August 18, 1920, that granted women the right to vote.

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1 hr 3 min
November 23, 2020 James Taing, Documentary Filmmaker
Filmmaker James Taing discusses his documentary “Ghost Mountain,” about the 1979 massacre of Cambodian survivors of Pol Pot’s Killing Fields by Thai soldiers along the Thailand-Cambodia border.

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1 hr 3 min
November 16, 2020 Sarah Brayne, Author "Predict and Surveil"
University of Texas at Austin sociology professor Sarah Brayne talks about the use of big data and new surveillance technologies by law enforcement, and discusses where this kind of policing may be headed.

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59 min
November 09, 2020 David Savage, Los Angeles Times, 20th Anniversary of Bush v. Gore SCOTUS Case
David Savage, Los Angeles Times, 20th Anniversary of Bush v. Gore SCOTUS Case

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1 hr 3 min

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Intriguing hour-long conversations with people who are making things happen. Hosted by Peter Slen. New episodes every Sunday evening. From the network that brings you "Washington Today" and "Lectures…