US soldiers arrive at the site of a suicide attack in Maidan Shar, the capital city of Wardak province south of Kabul on September 8, 2013.

Can America Win the War, or the Peace, in Afghanistan?

The Leonard Lopate Show | Nov 14, 2014

Acclaimed war correspondent Jack Fairweather discusses America's failures in Afghanistan. In Penelope Fitzgerald: A Life, Hermione Lee traces Penelope Fitzgerald’s complicated life and late writing career. Rabih Alameddine’s new novel is a portrait of one reclusive woman’s late-life crisis. Paige Williams investigates how judges in Alabama impose the death penalty on murderers, even when the jury votes against the death penalty. 

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