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Retro Report’s Peter Klein: “The Sleeper Cell That Wasn’t”

November 24, 2013 admin All Conversations, International Affairs, Public Policy, Uncategorized

From secret eavesdropping to surreptitious email gathering, we all have an increased sense of how far the government seems willing to go in the war

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Michael Beschloss, Presidential Historian: JFK Anniversary

November 22, 2013 admin All Conversations, Public Policy, Uncategorized

It was a Golden Age of hope and danger and opportunity. A young President; a glamorous wife; a country with internal conflict and external threat,

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Jeff Greenfield: “If Kennedy Lived”

November 21, 2013 admin All Conversations, Public Policy, Uncategorized

Some 50 years ago, the gunshot that changed American politics – indeed, changed America – was fired. Dallas, November 22, 1963. President John F. Kennedy

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Retro Report’s Jonathan Gruber: “The Day the Lights Went Out”

November 17, 2013 admin All Conversations, Public Policy, Science, Uncategorized

It was the day the lights went out across the East Coast of the U.S. and Canada. Just more than 10 years ago, August 2003,

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Retro Report’s Jill Rosenbaum: “The Long War on Cancer”

November 4, 2013 admin All Conversations, Science, Uncategorized

Virtually all of us have dreams for a cure to cancer. But in December, 1971, the hope for a cure couldn’t have been higher. President

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Stu Rothenberg, The Rothenberg Political Report

October 29, 2013 admin All Conversations, Politics, Uncategorized

Presented by Political Wire: With the government shutdown and debt ceiling battles behind us – at least until January – focus has turned to what

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Retro Report’s Bonnie Bertram: “Liebeck v. McDonald’s: The Big Burn”

October 21, 2013 admin All Conversations, Business & Economics, Culture, Public Policy, Uncategorized

It was the poster child for a legal system gone haywire. In 1994, an Albuquerque, NM jury gave $2.9 million dollars to a local grandmother

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Corey Mead: “War Play: Video Games and the Future of Armed Conflict”

October 18, 2013 admin All Conversations, Culture, Public Policy, Technology, Uncategorized

From drones to Tomahawk missiles to Navy SEALs, it’s no exaggeration to say that the U.S. military has a range of incredibly effective weapons at

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Retro Report’s Matthew Spolar: “Dolly the Sheep”

October 16, 2013 admin All Conversations, Science, Uncategorized

It was a scientific feat for the ages. A result so exciting and scary, that one reporter wondered , “Should we be applauding a mind-boggling

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Daniel Alpert, Economist: “The Age of Oversupply”

October 11, 2013 admin All Conversations, Business & Economics, Public Policy, Uncategorized

How did we arrive at our economic situation? What can we do to get out? According to Daniel Alpert, we suffer from “oversupply.” Today’s economic

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Retro Report’s Olsen & Michels: “Richard Jewell: The Wrong Man”

October 8, 2013 admin All Conversations, Culture, Uncategorized

We hear it nearly every time news breaks. The Boston Bombing. Newtown, CT. Even the recent Navy Yard Shootings. Speculation on who did it. Speculation

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Retro Report’s Kit Roane: “The Shadow of Thalidomide”

September 27, 2013 admin All Conversations, Public Policy, Science, Uncategorized

Virtually no legal drug in American history carries as much fear as Thalidomide. A wonder drug, imported from Germany in the late 50s, that would

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