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On the Brink: Women in Afghanistan and Pakistan
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A Women in the World conversation about human rights in a global hot zone. Watch the live-stream online Friday, March 12 at 5:15 p.m.
A Bhutto's Search for Justice
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Gayle Tzemach Lemmon covered presidential politics as a producer at ABC News in Washington. Since 2005, she has been reporting on women entrepreneurs starting small and medium-sized businesses in post-conflict economies such as Afghanistan, Bosnia and Rwanda. She is currently working on a book scheduled for 2010 publication by HarperCollins about a young Afghan entrepreneur whose business supported her family and community during the Taliban years.
Fatima Bhutto comes from a long line of politicians mired in violence and corruption, including her aunt, Benazir Bhutto. She talks to Gayle Tzemach Lemmon about seeking a better path for her country-even when it means challenging her family.
Finally, a Taliban Crackdown
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Bruce Riedel is a senior fellow at the Saban Center for Middle East Policy of the Brookings Institution. His book, The Search for Al Qaeda: Its Leadership, Ideology and Future, has just been released in paperback with a new postscript.
What's driving Pakistan's sudden surge in arrests of top Taliban leaders? Bruce Riedel on why this may be a sign of meaningful progress in the war on terror.
Missed Clues in Bomb Plot
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Philip Shenon, a former investigative reporter at The New York Times, is the author of The Commission: The Uncensored History of the 9/11 Investigation.
Officials now think a terror suspect in custody in Chicago could have prevented a bombing in India that killed 16 people. Philip Shenon on the most important investigation since 9/11.
Chile Surveys the Damage
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Chilean President Michelle Bachelet opened the door to international aid after first signaling the country would not ask for help, as the death toll jumped to over 700 and two million more are left homeless by the massive quake.
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The Rove You Don't Know
Matt Latimer is the author of the New York Times bestseller, SPEECH-LESS: Tales of a White House Survivor. He was deputy director of speechwriting for George W. Bush and chief speechwriter for Donald Rumsfeld.
Biden's Disastrous Israel Trip
Reihan Salam is a policy advisor at e21 and a fellow at the New America Foundation.
Alternative Russian Classics
Elif Batuman was born in New York City and grew up in New Jersey. She now lives in San Francisco. She is the recipient of a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award. She teaches at Stanford University.
Obama Gets His Mojo Back
Peter Beinart, senior political writer for The Daily Beast, is associate professor of journalism and political science at City University of New York and a senior fellow at the New America Foundation. His new book, The Icarus Syndrome: A History of American Hubris, will be published by HarperCollins in June. Follow him on Twitter and Facebook.
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