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The World Next Week: NATO Debates, Patriots’ Day Awaits

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  • James M. LindsayCFR Expert
    Mary and David Boies Distinguished Senior Fellow in U.S. Foreign Policy
The minute-men of the Revolution. (Currier & Ives/courtesy the Library of Congress)
The minute-men of the Revolution. (Currier & Ives/courtesy the Library of Congress)

The World Next Week podcast is up.  Bob McMahon and I talked about the NATO foreign ministers’ talks on Libya; the meeting of Cuba’s Communist Party; the fiftieth anniversary of the Bay of Pigs invasion; President Obama’s live town hall meeting on Facebook; and Patriots’ Day, which is next Monday.

[audio: https://www.cfr.org/content/publications/media/podcast/2011/20110414_TWN…]

The highlights:

Bob and I aren’t the only commentators discussing these issues. The New York Times covers the work of the contact group on Libya and the Economist discusses continued unrest in Syria. Reuters previews the Cuban Communist Party meeting this weekend, and the Miami Herald casts a backwards glance at the failed Bay of Pigs invasion. The New York Times’ tech blog covers Obama’s upcoming Facebook Live town hall, and the Wall Street Journal discusses the broader context of Obama’s reelection campaign. For a refresher on the first shots of the Revolutionary War, check out PBS’s timeline and other educational materials or just wait until Midnight Riders, a movie about Paul Revere, is released. The Boston Athletic Association has the latest on the Boston Marathon. And for the latest grousing on the Red Sox’s awful start to the 2011 baseball season—a disaster no doubt caused by my rash prediction that they will win the World Series this year—check out Boston.com.