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Dave Rubin of "The Rubin Report" talks about Ben Shapiro getting CNN's Abby Phillip to go quiet after he shows the proof for why the AI doomers have a lot of self-interest in pushing for more AI regulation from the federal government and a warning about what would happen if China ...  Show more

Dave Rubin of "The Rubin Report" gives a first look at the stories you need to know to start your day, including former CIA Director John Brennan being subpoenaed to testify before a Florida grand jury in a Justice Department investigation examining whether former law-enforcement ...  Show more

This week on Babel, Jon Alterman speaks with award-winning Iraqi journalist Ghaith Abdul-Ahad. During the conversation, Abdul-Ahad discusses the fallout from the war and U.S. occupation, his career reporting from Iraq, and the ways that working alongside leading journalists influ ...  Show more

After the US-led coalition's invasion of Iraq and defeat of Iraqi forces in conventional operations, a series of new challenges arose. How can security forces be rebuilt and strengthened, for example, and how can peace and governance be restored? This episode is the second in a t ...  Show more

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">What is it like to leave a country in crisis - only to return years later to a devastated homeland? Today, a Post photojournalist journeys back to Iraq after 24 years. </span>

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In a special episode of Babel to mark the 20th anniversary of the beginning of the Iraq war, Jon sits down with two Iraqi guests to talk about the aftermath of the U.S.-led invasion. Dr. Marsin Alshamary is a research fellow with the Middle East Initiative at Harvard's Belfer Cen ...  Show more