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America's Secret Afghan Prisons

Anand Gopal discusses America's secret prisons in Afghanistan. His article "America's Secret Afghan Prisons" was published collaboratively by TomDispatch.com and The Nation, and supported by the Fund for Investigative Journalism. Anand Gopal has reported in Afghanistan for the Christian Science Monitor and the Wall Street Journal. His dispatches can be read at anandgopal.com. He is working on a book about the war in Afghanistan.

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Happy

Alex Lemon talks about the debilitating strokes that interrupted his hard-partying college days. In Happy: A Memoir, he recounts coping with strokes, brain bleeds, and depression by sinking deeper into drug and alcohol abuse, and how his mother nursed him back to health after brain surgery.

Events: Alex Lemon will be speaking and signing books
Thursday, February 4, at 7:00 pm
Book Court
163 Court Street
Brooklyn

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Extreme Fear

Science journalist Jeff Wise explains the latest research about how the brain reacts to fear, and describes his hands-on approach to his reporting. His book Extreme Fear: The Science of Your Mind in Danger reveals how the simple "fight or flight" model has been replaced by a more complex understanding of our body and brain’s response to fear.

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Underreported: Haiti's Children

Before last month’s earthquake, Haiti’s children were at risk of indentured servitude and sex trafficking. On this week’s Underreported, Caryl M. Stern, president of the U.S. Fund for UNICEF, and Manuel Fontaine, a UNICEF Representative in Algeria and child protection expert who is currently on mission with UNICEF in Haiti, join us for a look at why Haiti’s children were vulnerable before last month’s earthquake and what kind of efforts are underway to protect them as the country tries to rebuild.

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Backstory: The Corporation as a "Person"

The Supreme Court’s recent ruling in the case Citizen’s United v. Federal Election Commission has been criticized as granting corporations the same freedom of speech as human beings. We’ll explore the history of this idea with Doug Kendal of the Constitutional Accountability Center. We’ll also be joined by Richard Briffault, a professor at Columbia Law School, who will talk about the specifics of the Citizen’s United v. Federal Election Commission ruling and what it means for campaign finance law.

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