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Acting Defense Secretary Christopher Miller briefs reporters at the Pentagon on President Trump’s decision to reduce the number of troops in Afghanistan and Iraq to 2,500 in each country by January 15, 2021.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee.

During Remarks at ceremony at Fort Bragg, Acting Defense Secretary Christopher Miller says reducing forces from Afghanistan and Iraq will be done “in a manner that protects our fighting men and women and our hard-earned gains.”

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National World War II Museum oral historian Hannah Dailey talks about “atomic veterans” -- servicemen assigned to nuclear bomb tests and clean-up -- many of whom suffered long-term health issues from radiation exposure.

Political scientist Deborah Stone argues that numbers aren’t objective and explains numerous ways numbers impact our lives daily. She’s interviewed by data scientist and author Cathy O’Neil.

Georgetown University international affairs professor Charles Kupchan looks back at American foreign policy and isolationism.

Open Markets Institute director Sally Hubbard looks at the history of monopolies in American industry and provides her thoughts on how to prevent monopoly power. She’s interviewed by Bloomberg News reporter David McLaughlin.

Eddie Glaude, chair of the African American Studies program at Princeton University, talks about race and politics in America as well as the relevance of the late author James Baldwin in the age of Black Lives Matter.