• U.S., Turkey Face Growing Foreign Policy Divide

    U.S., Turkey Face Growing Foreign Policy Divide

    Jun 11, 2010 04:00 AM EST

    ... confident these days. KWAME HOLMAN: Omer Taspinar is a professor of international relations at the National Defense University. Born in Turkey, he's now an American citizen. OMER TASPINAR: There's a sense of, basically, patriotism and nationalism in the country. And this government wants to follow a more independent ...

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    President Bush's U.N. Speech Focuses on Mideast Reform

    Sep 19, 2006 10:25 PM EST

    ... Despite what the regime tells you, we have no objection to Iran's pursuit of a truly peaceful nuclear power program. We're working toward a diplomatic solution to this crisis. And as we do, we look to the day when you can live in freedom and America and Iran ...

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    Remembering Civil War Historian Shelby Foote

    Jun 29, 2005 04:00 AM EST

    ... re going to understand the American character in the 20th Century, to learn about this enormous catastrophe in the mid-19th Century. It was the crossroads of our being and it was a hell of a crossroads. KWAME HOLMAN: Foote's descriptions brought bloody, hard-fought battles to life. Here ...

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    U.S. Forces Launch Major Operation Against Foreign Insurgents

    May 09, 2005 05:30 PM EST

    ... security officials, have died in the attacks. Despite the campaign by American forces in the restive Al Anbar province, the violence continued on Monday when a suicide car bomb exploded at a police checkpoint in southern Baghdad, killing at least three people and wounding eight, police said. A separate car ...

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    Profits and Principles

    Oct 10, 2002 04:00 AM EST

    JEFFREY KAYE: Gorgeous, glamorous, and cutting edge: This is the public face of the $9 billion a year Los Angeles fashion business; a crossroads of the American apparel industry. But the parade of gloss and glitter is produced by the sweat and skill of a largely underground workforce. Some 120 ...

  • Cosbys host 'conversation' of African-American artworks at the Smithsonian

    Cosbys host 'conversation' of African-American artworks at the Smithsonian

    Nov 12, 2014 01:50 AM EST

    ... figures from Cote d'Ivoire. Another juxtaposition, a 1978 painting "Benin Head" by American artist David Driskell, and a copper and iron commemorative head of a king from Benin made in the 18th century. The works are soaring and small, colorful and spare. Camille and Bill Cosby joined me at ...

  • Congress is about to get even more polarized

    Congress is about to get even more polarized

    May 14, 2014 01:09 PM EST

    ... Tuesday. The FEC is limiting individual donors to a maximum of $100 worth of bitcoins per election. But here’s the thing: that’s not a hard donation of $100. Bitcoin value can fluctuate wildly and daily. At its height, a bitcoin’s worth was $1,147. Currently, it’s ...

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    Big Donors Saw Diminishing Returns in Most Expensive Election in History

    Nov 21, 2012 11:35 PM EST

    ... money -- in this election? MATEA GOLD: Well, the biggest spenders were a pair of groups that were co-founded by Karl Rove, American Crossroads and Crossroads GPS, its sister nonprofit, which doesn't disclose its donors. We saw a lot of big traditional Republican donors give to American Crossroads, which ...

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    All Eyes on Supreme Court for Health Care, Immigration Rulings

    Jun 25, 2012 01:03 PM EST

    Members of the media camp outside the Supreme Court. Photo by Jim Watson/AFP/Getty Images. Monumental. Crucial. Consequential. Pick whatever word you want, but there is no denying that what happens this week at the Supreme Court will have far-reaching implications for the fall campaign and beyond. That's because over the next few days the nine...

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    Economic Gains in Key States Pose Messaging Dilemma for Romney

    Jun 21, 2012 01:03 PM EST

    Mitt Romney campaigns in Frankenmuth, Michigan Tuesday. Photo by: Joe Raedle/Getty Images For Mitt Romney, the improving jobs picture in some battleground states led by Republican governors has made it a bit tougher to label President Obama's economic record a failure. And it seems that the Romney campaign has even gone so far as to...