Iran and the escalation trap
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1996 episodes transcribedToday on the show, we wanted to bring on Robert Pape. He is a political scientist with the University of Chicago. And we’ve been following his work on...
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Today on the show we are going to discuss the complete gutting of the Washington Post, an American institution. The paper that broke Watergate. The pa...