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David Remnick on the gangster myth

Culture

Why are we so fascinated with mob stories?

Special Guest: David Remnick

Arts, Culture & Media

Second inaugural addressess typically shorter, rarely well-remembered

Global Politics

Gilad Shalit and the Future of the Middle East

The Political Ramifications of Bin Laden’s Death

Global Politics
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Obama Calls for ‘winning the future’ in State of the Union

Global Politics

David Remnick, editor of The New Yorker and author of ‘The Bridge: The Life and Rise of Barack Obama,’ responds to President Obama’s second annual State of the Union address.

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In audio: the life of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Arts, Culture & Media

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn timeline: Birth: 1918, December 12; Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn is born in Kislovodsk, Russia on December 11, 1918, as World War I was ending. His father dies six months before his birth. A student of mathematics: 1937; Now an unpublished and frustrated young author, Solzhenitsyn reluctantly studies Mathematics at Rostov University in Russia. Natalia […]

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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Russian author of ‘The Gulag Archipelago,’ dies at 89

Global Politics

Guest: Archie Barron, producer and director of the documentary The Solzhenitsyns Take a Long Way Home’

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