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Lata Pandya
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Which Way, L.A.?
Talking Points: Our Favorite Author Interviews of 2013 On this special end-of-the-year edition of To the Point we’re rebroadcasting some of our favorite author interviews from 2013.
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Talking Points: Our Favorite Author Interviews of 2013 On this special end-of-the-year edition of To the Point we’re rebroadcasting some of our favorite author interviews from 2013.
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Ukraine Struggles for a Way Forward Police in Ukraine used force against peaceful protesters today in what's becoming that country's worst crisis since the Orange Revolution of 2004.
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After Detroit, Public Pensions Are No Longer Sacred State and local governments may be breaking their long-standing promise to public workers. Guaranteed pensions are said to be too expensive. How did they get that way?
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A Political Earthquake Heading for Los Angeles County LA County's five Supervisors are America's most powerful local elected officials. They operate in the shadows — almost never replaced by election — until now..
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Syrian Peace Talks and the Battle on the Ground Despite talks scheduled next month between Syria's government and rebels, fighting continues and there's concern that the war will finally be decided on the battlefield.
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Los Angeles Responds to Philippines Typhoon More Filipinos live in Southern California than anyplace outside the Philippine Islands themselves, many touched personally by Typhoon Haiyan.
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Can the US Salvage a Deal with Iran? A deal for Iran to curtail its nuclear development failed at a meeting with six foreign ministers in Geneva. New talks are scheduled, but the blame game continues.
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Who's to blame for the opioid crisis? Some of the lawyers who took on Big Tobacco are now going after Big Pharma. It’s all about the deadly epidemic of opioid use. Are the drug companies to blame? What about the users? Later, on today’s Talking Point: making sense of Britain’s upset election.
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The longest US war: Will Trump send more troops to Afghanistan? The Trump White House is divided over the Pentagon's request for more troops in Afghanistan—where the US has been fighting for the past 16 years. Is there a formula -- either for "victory" or a political settlement? Is there an end in sight for America's longest war?
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Trump plays scolder-in-chief with NATO allies At the opening of NATO’s dramatic new headquarters in Brussels today, President Trump acknowledged that Article 5 — promising that “an attack on one nation is an attack on all” -- has only been invoked one time: in the aftermath of September 11. But the President failed to provide what 27 other Alliance members have been waiting for: a re-commitment by America’s new leader to Article 5. Instead, they got a scolding.
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Human Rights in the era of Donald Trump President Trump’s UN Ambassador, Nikki Haley, said today the US might pull out of the United Nations’ Human Rights Council. Serious violators of human rights are members of the Council itself–and a US resignation could make things worse. Later on today’s show, now that he’s into his second term, comedian turned US Senator Al Franken is telling jokes again.