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Upfront
A rigorous debate program that cuts through the headlines to challenge conventional wisdom, highlight contradictions and uncover double standards. Hosted by Mehdi Hasan, an award-winning independent journalist and political commentator.
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Aaron Mate and David Cay Johnston debate the response to the Mueller report in this week's "Arena" segment of "Upfront."
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Nobel Peace Prize laureate and Yemeni human rights activist Tawakkol Karman says the U.S. president has the power to end the war between Saudi-United Arab Emirates coalition and Houti rebels in Yemen.
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The former head of the special operations division at the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, Derek Maltz, and Sanho Tree, director of drug policy for the Institute for Policy Studies, debate whether the so-called "war on drugs" has failed.
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Steven Pinker: Is the World Actually Getting Better?
In this week's UpFront, Hassan challenges author and Harvard professor Steven Pinker on his new book, "Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism and Progress," in which he argues that data shows the world is becoming a better place.
And in the Arena, journalist Afua Hirsch and Claire Fox, author and director of the U.K.-based think-tank the Academy of Ideas, discuss racism in the United Kingdom, and the kind of conversations needed to address it.
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