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Kai Ryssdal: We're probably still a couple of lawsuits away from figuring out exactly how much power the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's eventually going to have. Senate Republicans say they're going to challenge President Obama's recess appointment of Richard Cordray to run the agency. The president says he did it because without a permanent director, the bureau couldn't do key parts of its job. One big part of which is regulating what're called non-bank activities -- check cashing, debt collection, payday lending.

And that, according to Benjamin Lennett of the Open Policy Initiative at the New America Foundation, is "part of problem. It doesn't solve the other issue in this which is our networks in general are not capable of providing emergency communications ...

The U.S. participation in the Libyan conflict has been described as "leading from behind." Europe took a larger role in helping the revolution. Commentator Parag Khanna reports.

The one thing that's certain about what's going on in this economy is that there's a whole lot of stuff happening that's not very certain. That's the second half of the broadcast today -- how businesses both big and small are dealing with that. Right now, a perspective on how we got here from commentator and business writer Megan McArdle. ...

Maya MacGuineas is with the New America Foundation, another centrist think tank. She says cuts to entitlement programs are inevitable. Maya MacGuineas: You can make changes to those programs that are sensible, that are phased in gradually, that protect ...

On the eve of new EPA regulations, a hard look at who wins and loses from clean air. Marketplace interviews Lisa Margonelli.

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We talk to Rebecca MacKinnon from the New America Foundation about how Chinese censorship works. "The Chinese government expects Internet companies to censor and police user content," she says. "So, with all of these companies, including Baidu, ...

We talk to Josh King of the Open Technology Initiative at New America Foundation. He's one of the people who has been designing and building these kits. He says it's different from the kinds of network systems you or I might be used to when we go on ...

... This was a pretty bloody battle, particularly considering how small a piece of the budget it was over. That's Maya MacGuineas at the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. She says even so, the politicians did opt for some cuts ...

Parag Khanna: We must remember that the Arab world is not the Third World even in this period of upheaval and uncertainty. Khanna: Some oil-rich Arab nations are among the wealthiest societies on earth. Together, Arab nations possess all the ...