Our year-in-review show features, first, Politics in 2008: DAVID CORN, Washington bureau chief of Mother Jones, reviews the year in politics – and considers the future of the Republicans.  (originally broadcast 12/17/08)

IRAQ: the Forever War. DEXTER FILKINS has covered the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan since 2001 for the New York Times. Filkins describes “an arid, hopeless policy” in an unforgettable book: The Forever War. (originally broadcast 9/17/08)

Obama and History: ERIC FONER comments — he teaches History at Columbia U., and is the author of many books, most recently Our Lincoln.  His new essay in The Nation, “Rooted in Reconstruction,” explores the history of black politics in America.  (originally broadcast 11/5/08)

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