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October 26, 2015 Pop Culture Censorship, Stressed Out Kids, The Gig Economy
October 26, 2015: 1. Powerful Quake Strikes South Asia | 2. Fareed Zakaria on The Future of The Middle East | 3. Class Action Lawsuits Threaten Companies Like Uber | 4. New Testing Guidelines: Will Stressed Out Kids Catch a Break? | 5. Sex, Drugs and Gore: The Evolution of Pop Culture Censorship
36 min
October 23, 2015 Working With Bill Murray, Canada Pulls the Plug, Trouble in Iraq
October 23, 2015: 1. U.S. Soldier Killed Freeing ISIS Captives in Iraq | 2. Canada to Withdraw From U.S. Fight Against ISIS | 3. Actress Leem Lubany on Rocking the Kasbah with Bill Murray | 4. Movie Date: Films to Catch and Skip This Weekend | 5. Want to Increase Student Success? Redesign Community Colleges
32 min
October 22, 2015 Gaming the System, Torching Churches, Distorting History
October 22, 2015: 1. How the GOP Gamed the System to Control Congress | 2. Top Cops and Prosecutors Seek to End Mass Incarceration | 3. The Wikileaks-CIA Hack: What You Need to Know | 4. Who's Torching Black Churches in St. Louis? | 5. Netanyahu and The Holocaust: Distorting History for Political Gain
33 min
October 21, 2015 Voting Laws, College Costs, Mental Illness
October 21, 2015: 1. Kansas May Be The Toughest Place to Vote in America | 2. The Democratic Party May Be in Real Trouble | 3. Improving Community College with Intensive Support | 4. A Better Way to Treat Schizophrenia
28 min
October 20, 2015 A World Without Borders, Chicago 'Black Sites,' Alone But Not Lonely
October 20, 2015: 1. A Desperate Plea to End the Syrian War | 2. Migrants Stranded as Winter Weather Sets In | 3. The Benefits of a Borderless World | 4. FCC Moves Towards More Wireless Power, Fewer Local TV Stations | 5. Inside Chicago's Secret Detention Center | 6. Is One Really the Loneliest Number?
43 min
October 19, 2015 Dads Behind Bars, Stolen Water, Military Families
October 19, 2015: 1. Jerusalem: A 'Tinder Box' in The New Israeli-Palestinian Conflict | 2. Afghans Fear a U.S. Pull Back | 3. Environmentalists Sue Over Nestlé's Bottled Water Business | 4. With No End in Sight, Military Families Pay the Real Price in Afghanistan | 5. For Fathers Behind Bars, Child Support Becomes a Crushing Debt
30 min
October 16, 2015 Trolling a TV Show, Challenging Racism, Secret Drones
October 16, 2015: 1. The Past, Present and Future of the U.S. Drone Program | 2. The Writing on the Walls: How Three Artists Trolled 'Homeland' and Won | 3. Challenging Racism in America: A Discussion With Ta-Nehisi Coates | 4. A Look at the 6,000 Inmates Set to Be Released Later This Month | 5. Movie Date: Films to Catch and Skip This Weekend
40 min
October 15, 2015 Police Misconduct, Art Theft, Ralph Nader
October 15, 2015: 1. Is Police Misconduct a Secret in Your State? | 2. Taliban Targeted Women in Afghan Attack | 3. Using DNA Encryption to Combat Art Forgery | 4. Ralph Nader on his American Museum of Tort Law
35 min
October 14, 2015 The Liberal Label, Illegal Guns, The Gitmo of The North
October 14, 2015: 1. Unpacking the Democratic Debate | 2. Gun Seller: We're Not All Bad Guys | 3. Jury Rules Against Gun Store for Selling Firearm Used to Shoot Cops | 4. Israel Deploys Troops as Tensions Rise | 5. Florence, Colorado: The Gitmo of the North? | 6. Liberal: No Longer a Dirty Word?
43 min
October 13, 2015 The 'Real' Hillary Clinton, Your Debate Preview, Reimagining the Human Body
October 13, 2015: 1. Is This the 'Real' Hillary Clinton? | 2. Your Guide to the First Democratic Debate | 3. The Human Body, Redefined
26 min

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