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Wednesday, June 13 2012

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    Campaign Messaging as Tweet and as Tome | An Incentive to End Traffic | How Big Data Can Solve Big Problems| Former NFL Player Wade Davis on Coming Out | Peacekeeper Calls Syria Con... (episode)

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    • Campaign Messaging as Tweet and as Tome June 13, 2012

      At fundraisers, the President Obama has said that the entire message of his opponent’s campaign can fit on a bumper sticker, or in a tweet: "It's Obama's Fault." The Obama campaign, o...

    • An Incentive to End Traffic June 13, 2012

      If you’re a driver on the Stanford University campus in California, you might just win some money these days for driving during off-peak hours as part of a new program that launched t...

    • How Big Data Can Solve Big Problems June 13, 2012

      Yesterday Kathleen Hall Jamieson and Andrew Rasiej discussed how political campaigns have been using data mining to target campaign ads. Now other experts are using data to give us in...

    • More Than 80 Killed in Attacks in Iraq June 13, 2012

    • Former NFL Player Wade Davis: I Didn't Think I Had the Support to Come Out June 13, 2012

      It's no secret that coming out is tough. No one can ever really gauge just how someone will react beforehand, no matter how close to you they may be. Now imagine that you're making mi...

    • Peacekeeper Calls Syria Conflict "Civil War" June 13, 2012

      <p>The conflict in Syria is escalating so rapidly and involving such sectarian violence that one U.N. peacekeeper has called it a "civil war." What does identifying the conflict as a "civil war" mean going forward?</p>

    • Brian Lehrer on the End of War June 13, 2012

      Back in February The Brian Lehrer Show, which appears on our co-producing station WNYC, began a series. It was called “The End of War,” and it featured conversations about whether or ...

    • Rev. Cynthia L. Hale on Race Relations Since Obama June 13, 2012

      When he ran for President, then-Senator Barack Obama campaigned on the promise of hope. For many, that hope meant a post-racial era, one when an African-American man could lead a coun...

    • Russian Delivers Arms to Syria June 13, 2012

      Secretary of State Hillary Clinton says Russia's shipment of attack helicopters to Syria will escalate the conflict there. Yet Moscow says its deliveries to Syria are in line with int...

    • How Washington Mutual Went from Beloved to Bust June 13, 2012

      <p>Washington Mutual, or WaMu as it was popularly known, once marketed itself as the bank of the little guy. But WaMu is no longer that bank around the corner. What happened?</p>