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NPR's Scott Simon reflects on the displays of unity and diversity following the Sept. 11 attacks.
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Ukrainians have watched the U.S. exit from Afghanistan with dismay and are desperate to hear reassurance of support as President Volodymyr Zelenskyy visits Washington, two former U.S. diplomats write.
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Arab and U.S. liberals differ on how to handle Iran and its proxies, writes Firas Maksad. He says reactions to the killing of his friend Lokman Slim, a critic of Hezbollah, are a case in point.
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With apologies to Clement Clarke Moore, NPR's Scott Simon updates "A Visit from St. Nicholas" for 2020.
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The spread of COVID-19, the ensuing economic crisis and the reckoning around social injustice has made 2020 a year like none other. NPR wanted to know how these events might shape political choices.
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NPR's Scott Simon reflects on the life of Susan B. Anthony on the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment and questions the need for a posthumous pardon by President Trump.
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It is not in the Gulf Arab states' interest to stay the course with current U.S. Iran policy, write former Pentagon officials Bilal Y. Saab and Michael P. Mulroy. Doing so could lead them to war.
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Listeners praise and criticize broadcasting the daily briefings in real-time.
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Former U.S. Ambassador to Israel Daniel B. Shapiro warns of "severe ramifications" from the plan. The major problems, he writes, "result from having talked to only one side in the conflict — Israel."