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Obama Tweaks U.S. Vision For Fight Against Terrorism
May 24, 2013 | NPR · President Obama discussed America's counter-terrorism strategy — including the use of drones and the prison at Guantanamo Bay — during an address at the National Defense University on Thursday. He rejected the idea that the country can fight an open-ended "global war on terror."
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Political Attacks Ramp Up In U.S. Senate Race In Mass.
May 24, 2013 | NPR · In Massachusetts, what's been a relatively lackluster campaign to fill the U.S. Senate seat vacated by Secretary of State John Kerry is heating up. Veteran Democratic Rep. Ed Markey is running against Republican Gabriel Gomez, a businessman and former Navy SEAL. Gomez is a political newcomer.
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Documentary Introduces The Man Behind WikiLeaks
May 24, 2013 | NPR · David Greene talks to filmmaker Alex Gibney about the new documentary We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks. In 2006, Julian Assange launched WikiLeaks and encouraged anyone in the world to pass on information that might expose government secrets.
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Job Searching While Black: What's Behind The Unemployment Gap?
May 25, 2013 | NPR · Income and wealth inequality is just about as American as baseball and apple pie. And although the economy has improved in the last few years, the unemployment rate for black Americans is about double that for whites.
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Week In News: Obama's Foreign Policy Pitch
May 25, 2013 | NPR · This past week, President Obama laid out the foreign policy objectives for the remainder of his time in office, a speech that included his wish to end not just the war in Afghanistan but the "war on terror." Weekends on All Things Considered host Jacki Lyden speaks with James Fallows, national correspondent with The Atlantic.
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Is the Espionage Act Outdated?
May 25, 2013 | NPR · Weekends on All Things Considered host Jacki Lyden speaks with Benjamin Wittes of the Brookings Institution about the Espionage Act. This Word War I-era legislation has been used more frequently in recent times to prosecute government employees who leak information to the press, but the limits set by the act are poorly defined for our modern age.
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Then The Curtain Opened: The Bracing Impact Of Stravinsky's 'Rite'
May 25, 2013 | NPR · The aggressively modern ballet premiered in Paris in 1913, and provoked a response just as striking as the music and dance.
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Political Takeaways: Headaches For The White House
May 19, 2013 | NPR · Controversies dominated this past week's political headlines, leaving the Obama White House on the defensive, trying to contain any lasting damage. Host Rachel Martin talks with NPR's Mara Liasson.
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Why (Almost) No One In Myanmar Wanted My Money
May 10, 2013 — Like people in other countries that have gone through economic turmoil, people in Myanmar want U.S. dollars that look like they just rolled off the presses.
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Adam Davidson Talks Bitcoin With Stephen Colbert
Apr 18, 2013 — Colbert wants to know: Should he buy bitcoin?
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Most $100 Bills Live Outside The U.S.
Apr 17, 2013 — The share of $100s held outside the U.S. has been rising for decades. That's good news for the U.S. economy.
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Episode 450: Bitcoin Goes To The Moon
Apr 9, 2013 — The value of the virtual currency is skyrocketing. Is that good or bad for bitcoin's future?
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What If You Couldn't Take Your Money To Another State?
Mar 27, 2013 — You'd be free to leave the state, as long as you left your money behind. That's essentially what it's like now for people in Cyprus.
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If The Fed Loses Money, It Can Just Print More
Jan 30, 2013 — A snake-eating-its-tail thing happens when you think certain thoughts about money and the Federal Reserve.
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Episode 421: The Birth Of The Dollar Bill
Dec 7, 2012 — Before the Civil War, there were 8,000 different kinds of money in the United States. On today's show, we figure out how this world worked. And explain how the war changed everything.
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Here's What Your Latte Costs In A Currency That Doesn't Exist Anymore
Dec 6, 2012 — National currencies are defunct in the euro zone. So why do receipts still show prices in francs, pesetas and drachma?
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Episode 364: Should We Kill The Dollar Bill?
Nov 30, 2012 — On today's show we go deep into the nature of money itself, and we find a surprisingly clear answer to this question.
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No, Switching To Dollar Coins Would Not Save The Government Money
Nov 29, 2012 — Forcing everyone to use dollar coins would essentially create a voluntary tax on people with extra coins lying around.
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