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For the past four months, the BBC’s Mike Thomson has been in sporadic contact with people on the ground in the Syrian city of Raqqa, the capital for the self-proclaimed Islamic State. He’s telling their stories in the new series, “Life Inside ‘Islamic State’: Diaries.”
During her tenure, Nancy Reagan drew the nation’s attention to the drug epidemic. Carl Hart,author of “High Price: Drugs, Neuroscience, and Discovering Myself,” explains how Nancy Reagan changed the fight against drug abuse and addiction.