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Boston Calling

How the world looks through American eyes, and the myriad and unexpected ways that the world influences the United States.

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Money Talks - and Bears, too
Prudence Bushnell, US Ambassador to Kenya during the ‘98 embassy bombing on security fears
10 Aug 2013,26 mins
Newsmakers
P.J. Crowley, who resigned in 2011 over Bradley Manning’s treatment, calls verdict 'right'
03 Aug 2013,26 mins
Americans and War
A Syrian-American doctor returns to Syria to help victims of the sectarian violence
27 Jul 2013,26 mins
The Globalization Edition
US law allowing citizens to defend themselves with deadly force attracts attention abroad
20 Jul 2013,26 mins
Tragedy and Taboos
Asiana airline crash victims were headed to summer camp in the US to improve their English
13 Jul 2013,26 mins
Travellers' Tales
Outrage in Europe at revelations that US spies have been eavesdropping on diplomats
06 Jul 2013,26 mins
Supreme Decisions
What the US Supreme Court ruling in favour of gay rights means for other countries
29 Jun 2013,26 mins
A US Retailer Fights off a Canadian Pirate
A small shop in Canada is reselling goods from popular US store in, Trader Joe's
22 Jun 2013,26 mins
Learning English in the Workplace
Businesses in the US are helping their immigrant workers to learn to speak English
15 Jun 2013,26 mins
A Cancer in the Ranks
Sexual assault is becoming “a cancer” in the US military and victims are not just women
08 Jun 2013,26 mins
The Language of Phishing
How international cyber criminals are using better English to lure their prey
01 Jun 2013,26 mins
The US Military’s Sexual Assault Crisis
Reducing the staggering number of assaults in the US military gets top priority
25 May 2013,26 mins
Global Nation Edition
US immigration reform seen through the eyes of an undocumented immigrant
18 May 2013,26 mins
Boston's Thorny Questions
The duel tasks of honouring victims and compensating survivors of the Boston Marathon
11 May 2013,26 mins
America's Reliance on Drone Warfare
US Senators meet a Yemeni man whose village was targeted by a drone
04 May 2013,26 mins
Boston Bombings Aftermath
Boylston Street reopens after the Marathon bombings
27 Apr 2013,26 mins
Boston Marathon bombings
Views from racers, war correspondents and an amputee marathon competitor.
20 Apr 2013,26 mins
North Korea crisis
As Pyongyang ramps up threats directed at the US, Americans try to read between the lines.
13 Apr 2013,26 mins
Joseph Kony’s war in graphic novel form
A new graphic novel about the Ugandan warlord wanted by the International Criminal Court.
06 Apr 2013,26 mins
Same sex marriage
Immigrants offer their views on a contentious issue now before the US Supreme Court.
30 Mar 2013,26 mins
A US marine’s Iraq war diary
Tim McLaughlin's writings about the 2003 invasion of Iraq anchor a New York exhibit.
23 Mar 2013,26 mins
America’s H1B workers
Could a controversial visa program for highly skilled foreigner workers be a bad idea?
16 Mar 2013,26 mins
US diplomacy: 21st Century style
A new US diplomacy, Venezuelan-American views on Chavez and Lincoln's foot doctor.
09 Mar 2013,26 mins
Sequester: 'The United States of austerity'
Americans and foreign visitors react to massive US government spending cuts.
02 Mar 2013,26 mins
Oscar Pistorius's impact on disabled sports
A Paralympian praises Pistorius; a soldier's tie to his interpreter and meteor hunting.
23 Feb 2013,26 mins
Visa retrogression
How undocumented immigrants to the US have been placed behind those who got there legally
16 Feb 2013,26 mins
War Cabinet
How Vietnam War experience shaped the view of Secretary of Defense nominee Chuck Hagel
09 Feb 2013,26 mins
US Immigration Reform
How amnesty gave a 100-year-old Mexican woman a new life in the United States
02 Feb 2013,26 mins
America’s Domestic Drones
How unmanned aerial vehicles used for overseas missions are watching Americans at home
26 Jan 2013,26 mins
Girl's Ballet School in Syria
How life goes on for young ballerinas in a suburb of Damascus
19 Jan 2013,26 mins