Scott Brown and climate change

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Global Political Cartoons: August 22-28, 2009

Cartoonists around the world mark the passing of another Kennedy and what it may mean for his favorite issue: reforming healthcare. The CIA comes in for some dark caricatures after this week’s report detailing aggressive forms of interrogation. So does Libya for its warm reception of one of its own: the terminally sick (and to many sickening) convicted Lockerbie bomber.

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Ted Kennedy, Tracy Kidder, Polish Jews

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On this week’s How We Got Here history podcast we look at Ted Kennedy’s contribution to the anti-apartheid movement, Tracy Kidder’s new book Strength in What Remains, and the construction of a new museum in Warsaw dedicated to the Jewish history of Poland. >>> Click here to join the “How We Got Here” Facebook Group Page.

Ted Kennedy’s fight against apartheid

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Senator Edward Kennedy has died at 77 after a long battle with a brain tumor. The Massachusetts Democrat was a dominant force in American and foreign politics for almost 50 years. The Nelson Mandela Foundation in South Africa praised Kennedy for making “his voice heard in the struggle against apartheid at a time when the freedom struggle was not widely supported in the West.” Jeb Sharp looked at Kennedy’s role in ending apartheid.
>>> BBC obituary
>>>Read comments from around the world about Kennedy’s legacy
>>>A life in pictures

Remembering Kennedy

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Senator Edward Kennedy was one of the strong voices against the US-led war in Iraq. We feature an exchange he had in 2005 against then-Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld…and we look back on Kennedy’s legacy later in the program.

Ted Kennedy’s Legacy

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Senator Ted Kennedy died last night at the age of 77 after a year-long battle with brain cancer. The World’s Jeb Sharp looks back on the legacy of the man called the “liberal lion of the Senate.”

>>> BBC obituary
Have Your Say: read comments from around the world about Kennedy’s legacy
A life in pictures