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DEC 3, 2012 Podcast

Global Ethics Corner: FARC Comes to the Table

After decades of violence, rebel group FARC is negotiating with the Colombian government. The group has unsuccessfully petitioned the American government, though, to release a ...

NOV 30, 2012 Podcast

On Saudi Arabia: Its People, Past, Religion, Fault Lines--and Future

Drawing on over 30 years of experience of reporting on Saudi Arabia, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Karen Elliott House takes us behind the scenes in this secretive ...

NOV 29, 2012 Podcast

Human Rights Watch: Promoting Ethical Behavior When It's Contested

It's the job of Human Rights Watch to shine a spotlight on human rights abuses worldwide, including in the U.S., says its executive director ...

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NOV 28, 2012 Podcast

The Digital Revolution and the Role of Newspapers in Civic Life

Newspapers have long straddled an awkward line between public service and profit. Now those values are in conflict. The internet has upended the industry and ...

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NOV 28, 2012 Article

Losing the Violence Monopoly

The poisonous cocktail of widespread police and military brutality, increasingly lethal inter-communal ethnic violence in several regions, the anxious countdown to the March 2013 presidential elections, ...