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Arts and Culture: Walter Cronkite, TV’s First Anchor, Dies at 92

Reports: What Will History Make of Colin Powell?

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Cartoons: Robert McNamara

Ear to the Ground: New Nixon Files and Tapes Made Public

Ear to the Ground: America’s Bombs Are Still Exploding in Laos

Reports: Cambodia Déjà Vu: the Invasion of Pakistan

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Ear to the Ground: Obama Zeroes In on Afghanistan

A/V Booth: ‘Left, Right & Center’: Geithner’s Grand Plan; Obama’s Afghan Quagmire

Arts and Culture: Jacob Heilbrunn on Alger Hiss

Reports: A Bad Fix Would Be No Fix

Reports: Oliver Stone: The Director’s Cut

Reports: U.S. Fear, U.S. Folly in Afghanistan

Reports: America’s ‘Strong Commitment to Error’

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Ear to the Ground: Holder States the Obvious

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Reports: What Nixon Admitted (and Cheney Won’t)

Reports: The Road Out of Iraq Begins in Vietnam

Reports: From ‘Mission Accomplished’ to ‘So What?’

Arts and Culture: James Blight on McGeorge Bundy

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Ear to the Ground: Cluster Bomb Treaty Steps Forward

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Ear to the Ground: FBI Tracked Halberstam for Over Two Decades

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Reports: The Unlearned Lessons of Vietnam Continue to Haunt The U.S.

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Arts and Culture: Actor and Philanthropist Paul Newman Dies at 83

Arts and Culture: Does the Cold War Have Lessons for Today?

Reports: Quagmire, Phase 2: The Invasion of Pakistan

Arts and Culture: Robert Christgau on America’s Secret Fundamentalists

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Ear to the Ground: The Other Mrs. McCain

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Reports: Stopping the War Machine: Military Recruiters Must Be Confronted

Ear to the Ground: Daniel Berrigan: Forty Years After Catonsville

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Reports: Nixon’s Heir

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A/V Booth: Bill Clinton to the Rescue

Ear to the Ground: Iran to U.S.: I’m Rubber, You’re Glue

Reports: Rather Bites the Hand That Stabbed Him

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Ear to the Ground: Ohio’s Rep. Paul Gillmor Dead at 68

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Ear to the Ground: Oliver Stone Preps My Lai Movie

A/V Booth: Gravel’s Poignant Mantra: ‘Young Men and Women ... Dying’

Cartoons: Quagmire Quiz

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Ear to the Ground: Gerald Ford Dead at 93

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A/V Booth: Plus ça Change…

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Ear to the Ground: Young Vietnamese Doctor’s Diary Becomes Bestseller

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