MPR's Gary Eichten hosted one of the country's most widely respected foreign policy experts, former Sen. Richard Lugar of Indiana, at an event at St. Olaf College.
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How is Pope Francis changing the politics of climate change in America? Hear Rev. Canon Sally Bingham, Father Paul J. Fitzgerald and Mayor Sam Liccardo. From the 'Climate One' series of the Commonwealth Club of California, hosted by Greg Dalton.
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Steve Inskeep hosts an NPR News Special examining how the Iran nuclear agreement came to be, the heated debate in Washington, and how the deal could play out in the Middle East as it goes through a period of historic upheaval.
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Former US Sen. Gary Hart says America's founding principles are being corrupted, and we need to turn back to four elements of a civilized society: popular sovereignty, civic duty, resistance to corruption, and a sense of the common good. Gary Hart concludes that America is nowhere near the republic it set out to be.
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An historical documentary about the last ten years of negotiations by the Bush and Obama administrations on nuclear weapons and economic sanctions. The situation has far-reaching implications throughout the middle east and the rest of the world. From America Abroad, "Examining the Nuclear Deal with Iran."
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The Argentinian Pope comes to the US next week to address Congress, the UN, and the World Meeting of Families. One of this hour's Aspen Ideas Festival speakers says the Pope is perceived to be the most credible public figure on the planet. Another says he's achieved the most extraordinary instance of "re-branding" in our times.
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American RadioWorks documentary. In the 1940's British headmaster Kurt Hahn set up a wilderness school to teach the skills young men needed to survive World War II: leadership, persistence, working together. Fifty years later, Hahn's ideas inspired the founding of a network of public schools in the U.S.
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This American RadioWorks documentary explores how the GI Bill of 1944 revolutionized the lives of millions of young veterans, institutions of higher education, and American society at large. But America's economic and academic systems have changed, and veterans today are returning to a very different reality than their predecessors.
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