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17

2008

Podcast Episode Here and Now for Thursday, April 17, 2008

At least 50 are dead after a suicide bomber struck the funeral of two Sunni brothers who had joined the US backed Awakening Council movement to fight Al Qaeda. More than a hundred Iraqis have been killed in a series of bombings around the country this week, raising fears that insurgent groups are re-organizing in Iraq. With Ned Parker, Baghdad Correspondent for the Los Angeles Times.

What's the fallout from last night's bruising Democratic presidential debate in Philadelphia last night? We speak with Donald Kettl, director of the University of Pennsylvania's Fels Institute of Government, and Rob Christensen, longtime political reporter for the Raleigh News and Observer in North Carolina and author of new history of 20th century North Carolina politics, called "The Paradox of Tar Heel Politics."

As the Pope visits the United States, we speak with Boston College history professor, James O'Toole. His new book is "The Faithful: A History of Catholics in America." He says the churc

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