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The prime minister was keen in a BBC interview to erect the highest bar he could to any wannabe successors triggering a leadership contest.
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We speak with Oscar-nominated filmmaker Rick Rowley about his new documentary, Hell's Army. The film tracks the Wagner Group, the notorious Russian mercenary army that has fought in Ukraine and other parts of the world. The group's founder, Yevgeny Prigozhin, was a confidant to Putin until a failed 2023 mutiny against the government. He died in a suspicious plane crash two months later.
"We realized that he could be killed, the leader of this army could be killed, but its model continues," says Rowley. "Around the world, oligarchs are turning to mercenary armies, and it's a scourge that needs to be stopped."
Hell's Army has its North American premiere Friday in Washington, D.C.
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A new book shows the uses and limits of microhistories in understanding the past.
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We continue our conversation with acclaimed Iranian environmental scientist Kaveh Madani, who comments on U.S. strikes targeting Iranian water reservoirs, which have exacerbated the country's water shortage. He criticizes the "normalization of targeting civil infrastructure as a part of a war."
"Who suffers from the consequences of this? The poor community, the vulnerable communities," says Madani.
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Once the guardian of the bipartisan pro-Israel consensus, it is now a polarizing force in the party.
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Mr. Turek, a state lawmaker, beat Zach Wahls in a contest that tested the party's anti-establishment fervor.
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