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Steve Coll on his new book detailing the failings of American intelligence in Afghanistan. Plus, Amy Davidson Sorkin asks how hard it is for extremists to get elected. (article)
Ian Frazier, holding on for dear life, looks at the birth of a new sport: high-speed drone racing. And a political scientist analyzes the midterm elections. (episode)
Both parties in Washington have seen a rise in extremist candidates. A political scientist sheds light on how this will affect midterm elections.
The Pulitzer Prize winner Steve Coll on how the repeated failures of American intelligence and policy led to the nation’s longest and most intractable war.
The New Yorker’s Ian Frazier, holding on for dear life, looks at the birth of a new sport: high-speed drone racing.
Novelist, T. Coraghessan Boyle grapples with the devastation wreaked by wildfires and mudslides, which took the lives of his neighbors and transformed swaths of his town into mud flats.