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  • Obama Answers 7 Questions About Libya (More or Less)
    March 28, 2011

    In an address to the nation, President Obama made his case for intervening in Libya from both a strategic and moral perspective. But while he answered some of the questions hanging over the mission, he didn't explain enough to silence his critics.

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  • The Confab -- Dec. 11, 2009
    December 11, 2009

    This week on The Confab: Is the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) going soft on Obama? Are the Democrats dragging health care to the finish line? Plus, climate talks at Copenhagen and the crux of a wartime president receiving a Nobel Peace Prize. Join The Root's Washington reporter Dayo Olopade as she talks with The Root's new Managing Editor Joel Dreyfuss and Associate Editor Natalie Hopkinson.

     

    * Podcast production by Abdullah Rufus.

    * Podcast theme music by Timothy Morrison.

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  • Why Obama Deserves the Nobel Peace Prize
    by Greg Beals on 
    October 9, 2009

    In issuing the prize to Obama, the Nobel Committee decided to take a chance and do something relevant; hope for peace.

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  • What's Wrong With the Nobel Peace Prize?
    by David Kenner on 
    October 9, 2009

    From Eleanor Roosevelt to Gandhi, Foreign Policy lists the transformative figures that should have, could have, but didn't win the Nobel Peace Prize.

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