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Steve Inskeep talks to David Wessel, of "The Wall Street Journal," about the annual budget proposal that President Obama is set to unveil on Monday.

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Steve Inskeep talks with Karim Sadjadpour of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace about how tensions with Iran have escalated.

What changed to make war even a topic of discussion?

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Some believe America is in decline. But author Robert Kagan disagrees. He talks to Steve Inskeep about his new book The World America Made." President Obama recently discussed an article Kagan wrote for The New Republic called "The Myth of American Decline."

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Steve Inskeep has the Last Word in Business.

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As the Mayor's Conference takes place in Washington DC, city governments are dealing with severe problems at home — from high unemployment to funding cuts.

Steve Inskeep talks to Mick Cornett, the Mayor of Oklahoma City, about how his city has managed to avoid some of these problems.

Cornett is also national president of the Republican Mayor's Association.

After Mitt Romney's narrow win in Tuesday's Iowa caucuses, the GOP presidential hopefuls move on to New Hampshire, where voters cast their ballots in a primary next week.

For more on the Republican presidential race, Steve Inskeep speaks to NPR's Brian Naylor, who is in New Hampshire.

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It's tempting to say what a snake-bit year this was, a year when American troops were lost abroad, a year of economic struggle and cynical politics.

But it was also a year when troops came home, and people started new jobs. Steve Inskeep says it's to soon to judge 2011.

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For analysis of the political dynamics at play during the funeral of North Korean leader Kim Jong Il, Steve Inskeep talks to Stephen Bosworth, Dean of the Fletcher School at Tufts University.

From 2009 until October 2011 he was the U.S. Special Envoy to North Korea.

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On the anniversary of the Supreme Court Bush v. Gore decision in 2000, Steve Inskeep reports that collectors have bought up those punch-card voting machines that caused the hanging-chad confusion of that election.

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Steve Inskeep talks to NPR's Quil Lawrence, who is embedded with U.S. forces in a volatile Afghan province near the Pakistani border.

They discuss U.S. operations against the Taliban and Haqqani network, and the repercussions of last week's NATO airstrikes on an army border post that killed 24 Pakistani soldiers.