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One More For My Baby and One More For the Road
Maybe the most radical national experiment to avoid tribalism ever done, anywhere in the world. Of course the key moment two sides come together happens in a bar. (26 minutes)
More in Government
Act One: Gym Rat
In the summer of 2006, an FBI official visited a mosque in Orange County, California.
Act Two
The story of Craig Monteilh continues: What happens when you turn someone into the FBI who, it turns out, is working for the FBI? Trevor Aaronson, whom Sam Black interviewed for this story, has a book called The Terror Factory: Inside the FBI’s Manufactured War on Terrorism.
Act Two: Mr. Chen Goes to Wuhan
An average Chinese citizen decides to go to Wuhan, the heart of the coronavirus epidemic, to see for himself what’s happening there.
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