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The GOP and Foreign Policy: Long on Rhetoric, Short on Substance?
The 17 Republican candidates for president are almost unanimous when it comes to foreign affairs. Almost all are getting their ideas from one group of advisors, called the John Hay Initiative.
By Warren Olney • • 51m ListenThe 17 Republican candidates for president are almost unanimous when it comes to foreign affairs. Almost all are getting their ideas from one group of advisors, called the John Hay Initiative.
Also, President Carter reveals that cancer has spread to his brain. On today's Talking Point, the digital age has led to predictions of a "creative apocalypse" and the demise of recorded music, movies and books. Turns out, musicians, filmmakers and writers may have bright futures after all.
Photo: Former Governor Jeb Bush of Florida speaking at the 2015 Conservative Political Action Conference in National Harbor, Maryland. (Gage Skirmore)
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3 storiesPresident Carter's Cancer Has Spread to His Brain
At the age of 90, former President Jimmy Carter announced today that cancer has been found on his brain. He addressed reporters at a news conference in Atlanta where he planned to begin radiation treatment. "I was surprisingly at ease.
Read the story7 minRepublican Rhetoric on Foreign Policy: What's the Plan?
If former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is next year's Democratic nominee, foreign policy will be front and center in the presidential campaign. Most of the 17 Republican hopefuls are foreign-policy amateurs, but they're almost unanimously hawkish, blaming the Democrats for "weakness."
Read the story34 minHow Digital Innovation Has Helped, Not Hurt, Artists
The digital age has spawned predictions of a "creative apocalypse," caused because it would be impossible to make money by making art. So what's happened to the musicians, the filmmakers and the writers? It's not as bad as has been widely predicted, according to an article in the upcoming New York Times Magazine.
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