Host Marco Werman looks on as children from a fourth grade class in East Boston discuss a poem written on a white board.

The US plans to pull troops out of Afghanistan, replacing Mattis, poems about global warming

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Host Marco Werman looks on as John Roger’s fourth grade class from Curtis Guild Elementary in East Boston, Massachusetts, discuss a poem written on a white board. The class wrote poems about global warming after hearing stories on The World.

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US troop pullout from Afghanistan
What’s wrong with leaving Afghanistan
Shutdown latest
The Dull Men’s Club is not just for dull men
Santa Claus doesn’t live in the north pole
Who’s next at the Pentagon after Mattis?
‘Leaving this abruptly compromises everything that has been gained’
Amazon’s secret operations in Kiev, Ukraine
Lockerbie anniversary
Two adults sit at the front of an elementary school classroom as children's heads fill the bottom of the frame.
These fourth graders penned climate change poetry inspired by our coverage
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