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“I personally consider Russia to be a threat to many American national interests.”
Michael McFaul, a former US ambassador to Russia, gives his take on the upcoming Trump-Putin summit.
Also: we meet indigenous language interpreters helping migrants detained on the US-Mexico border make their cases for asylum; we look at global projects to combat loneliness, from dance parties in the Netherlands, to a newspaper for people cut off from society in Japan, to new research being conducted in Utah. We close out with a love song composed by a whale. Yes, for real.
(Image: Russia's President Vladimir Putin (L) and US President Donald Trump in Vietnam on November 11, 2017. Credit: Russian Presidential Press and Information Office/Handout/Getty Images)
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How do whales learn new songs?
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How the world looks through American eyes, and the myriad and unexpected ways that the world influences the United States.
