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One recent study by the Washington-based New America Foundation estimates a tax holiday could create between 1.3 and 2.5 million jobs. Politicians from both parties have sponsored tax holiday bills in the House and Senate. No member of Minnesota's ...

President Barack Obama and Congressional leaders are racing the clock to prevent the country from defaulting on its debt on August 2nd. What are the economic and political stakes that lawmakers face? Guest Jason Peuquet from Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget comments.

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C. W. Anderson, assistant professor of media culture at the College of Staten Island and a research fellow at Yale Law School and the New America Foundation, discusses with Minnesota Public Radio the recent Afghanistan War document release by WikiLeaks.

Health insurance companies worry a public option that the Obama administration wants will spell trouble in the marketplace. What is a public plan and how much will such a plan cost?

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Shortly before inauguration day, the Bush administration national security staff will walk the incoming Obama staff through what they need to know should an emergency happen. Experts say the nation is most vulnerable to attack in the early months of a new presidential administration. Guest Peter Bergen joins MPR for this discussion.

The notion that America is an "exceptional" nation has guided our foreign policy from the earliest days of the Republic. But critics say that idea has been used to justify some questionable adventures abroad. This is the latest discussion in Midmorning's election-season series examining the debates that define and inspire our country, using Howard Fineman's "The Thirteen American Arguments" as a guide.

Marilyn Young: Professor of history at New York University, and co-editor of "Iraq and the Lessons of Vietnam."

Though a cease fire agreement has been signed between Georgia and Russia, there are conflicting reports as to when hostilities actually will stop. Russian troops plan to stay in a security zone in the region.