Digital Age
Digital Age, covers politics, media and the way we live in the Digital Age.
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Has the Met Museum Gone Digital?
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Is the Nuke Deal with Iran a Good Deal?
Was it a good idea for the US to make ...
Was it a good idea for the US to make an interim deal with Iran even if they didn’t totally agree to stop enriching? Council on Foreign Relations President Emeritus Les Gelb tells Jim that any slowdown in Iran’s nuclear program is meaningful, and what we are giving them in return in relaxation of sanctions costs us very little.
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Will TWRRL Be the Next Twitter?
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Was Brazil Worth Spying On?
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How Do We Protect Our Children from Sexting's Dire Dangers?
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Will the Debt Ceiling Debate Become D?j? Vu All Over Again?
Congress approved an 11th-hour deal to raise the debt ceiling, ...
Congress approved an 11th-hour deal to raise the debt ceiling, in the face of dire threats that not to do so would bring down the global economy. But, instead of resolving the crisis, the lawmakers merely kicked the can down the road four months. Financial Times chief economics commentator, Martin Wolf, tells Jim that the US debt ceiling is “the legislative equivalent of a nuclear bomb aimed by the US at itself.”
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Are We Doing Enough to Take on Iran?
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? Is America's Global Influence in Decline??
Foreign affairs experts are worried that the Russian deal on ...
Foreign affairs experts are worried that the Russian deal on Syria,the Snowden affair, Internet balkanization, and the governmentshutdown have combined to undermine international perceptionsof US leadership. Council on Foreign Relations Studies DirectorJim Lindsay tells Jim Zirin that we will need to do much to regainour position of global primacy.
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Do We Have an Adequate Mental Healthcare Safety Net?
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Was Cairo Any Less Turbulent in 1941?
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