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What Susan Rice finds worth fighting for

caption: President Barack Obama confers with National Security Advisor Susan E. Rice at Konstantinovsky Palace during the G20 Summit in Saint Petersburg, Russia. September 6, 2013.
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President Barack Obama confers with National Security Advisor Susan E. Rice at Konstantinovsky Palace during the G20 Summit in Saint Petersburg, Russia. September 6, 2013.

The former national security advisor has written a new memoir. What’s happening closer to home in Democratic politics? And a liberal columnist goes on a pilgrimage to wrestle with his faith.

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Susan Rice, Tough Love

Ambassador Susan Rice worked in the Obama administration on policy in Syria as National Security Advisor. She spoke with Ross Reynolds about the Kurdish crisis created by the abrupt withdrawal of US forces from Syria, and about her new memoir Tough Love: My Story of the Things Worth Fighting For.

Seattle City Council races

Tonight there’s a Democratic presidential debate tonight – the largest one in history. You could be forgiven for not realizing that a Seattle City Council debate was scheduled for the same night. For a peek at both events, Bill Radke spoke to former Washington Attorney General Rob McKenna and former Washington State Representative Jessyn Farrell.

Tim Egan, A Pilgrimage to Eternity

Living in an areligious city like Seattle, writing for the New York Times, it might be easy to assume that Tim Egan is quite secular. But he’s struggled with his faith, even making a pilgrimage from Canterbury to Rome. He wrote a book about that experience called A Pilgrimage to Eternity.

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