Jillian Weinberger

Jillian Weinberger appears in the following:

Gunman Kills 6 at Sikh Temple Shooting

Monday, August 06, 2012

A gunman opened fire in a Sikh temple in Oak Creek, Wisconsin, Sunday in an act of domestic terrorism. Details are still emerging from yesterday’s events, but it has been confirmed th...

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Friday Follow: Olympics, Romney's Trip Abroad, and New Job Numbers

Friday, August 03, 2012

This week's Follow Friday includes a look back at the first week of the 2012 London Olympics, the responses to Romney's recent trip to Israel, the financial firm trading glitch, and t...

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London's Temporary Olympic Stadium, Built for Change

Wednesday, August 01, 2012

When London was preparing for the Olympics amidst the global recession, London’s Olympic Committee wanted a new kind of facility, an arena that could be completely transformed after t...

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Has the American Retirement System Failed?

Tuesday, July 31, 2012

It’s been 30 years since the Individual Retirement Account model, or the 401(k), became the standard way for Americans to save for retirement. And it has failed — or so says Teresa Gh...

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Ask Angy: Advice for Undocumented Immigrants in America

Monday, July 30, 2012

Angy Rivera came to the U.S. when she was three years old as an undocumented immigrant. Angy’s 21 now and writes the first and only undocumented immigrant advice column, "Ask Angy," w...

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The Great Game for Influence Over Central Asia

Monday, July 30, 2012

Two centuries ago, Russia and Britain fought a war of influence over a region that rarely makes headlines: Central Asia. Today, a new game of influence is taking place in that same re...

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Balancing Freedom of Speech with National Security

Thursday, July 26, 2012

In the wake of the terrorist attacks on September 11th, 2001, Congress passed the Patriot Act, a law that expanded the government's powers of surveillance and intelligence-gathering. ...

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'Searching for Sugar Man': A Rock Star's Cinderella Story

Wednesday, July 25, 2012

Few Americans have ever heard of Rodriguez, a protest rock musician who, after making two albums in the early '70s, quit the music business. Rodriguez returned to his native Detroit a...

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Neil Barofsky: Washington's Ties to Wall Street Caused TARP's Failure

Tuesday, July 24, 2012

Neil Barofsky, the man put in charge of the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP), thought the Bush and Obama Administrations wanted a tough regulator. As Barofsky tells it, he couldn'...

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New Collection Anthologizes Taliban Poetry

Friday, July 20, 2012

Afghanistan has a long, rich literary tradition, particularly storytelling through poetry. A new collection, edited and translated by British researchers living in Kandahar, anthologi...

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'A Light in Her Eyes' Examines the Role of Women in Islam

Thursday, July 19, 2012

Many of the Muslim clerics preaching in Syria believe women should never even enter a mosque, much less be educated in one. Now a new movement of Muslim women is daring to challenge these prevailing views.

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The More You Know, the Less You Owe

Wednesday, July 18, 2012

Americans owe more than $1 trillion in student debt, and without the proper financial knowledge this debt will only increase over time. In order to find a solution to this problem, we...

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Teaching Financial Literacy in Schools

Tuesday, July 17, 2012

The 2008 financial crisis and the great recession exposed Americans' flawed understanding of personal finance. Now the Obama Administration is making a push for financial literacy, st...

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Growing Pressure with Chinese Government Begins to Boil

Monday, July 16, 2012

Two months ago, Chinese civil rights activist and law student Chen Guangcheng escaped house arrest and found refuge at the American embassy in Beijing. Shortly thereafter, he and his ...

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The End of the Cable Package

Monday, July 16, 2012

Cable subscribers are paying for the shows they watch — and many they don't watch, too. 'À la carte' pricing could change all that.

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Why Guantanamo Bay Is Still Open

Monday, July 16, 2012

On his third day in office, President Obama signed an executive order to close Guantanamo Bay’s detention camp, but "Gitmo" remains open. So what happened?

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Why Does the World Exist?

Friday, July 13, 2012

The discovery of a what's being called a Higgs-like particle brought us one step closer to figuring out how the universe came into existence. But why did the universe come into existence in the first place?

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Swing States 2012: Hispanic and Suburban Voters in Colorado

Thursday, July 12, 2012

As the Obama and Romney campaigns set their sights on swing states, Anna Sale, reporter for our co-producer WNYC’s It's a Free Country, follows along.

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Amnesty International Catalogs Syrian Violence

Thursday, July 12, 2012

The uprising in Syria continues on as International governments and organizations try to battle the chaos brewing. Donatella Rovera, Amnesty International's senior crisis response a...

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John Leguizamo: A 'Ghetto Klown' Reflects

Wednesday, July 11, 2012

Actor John Leguizamo is perhaps best known for his groundbreaking one-man shows. A new documentary traces John Leguizamo's career from Mambo Mouth, his first major break, through the ...

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