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Coming home from the war in Iraq, US Army private Roy Scranton thought he'd left the world of strife behind. Then he watched as new calamities struck America, heralding a threat far more dangerous than ISIS or al-Qaeda: Hurricane Katrina, Superstorm Sandy, megadrought - the shock and awe of global warming. Our world is changing. Rising seas, spiking temperatures, and extreme weather imperil global infrastructure, crops, and water supplies. Conflict, famine, plagues, and riots menace from every quarter.

"Artificial Patients, Real Learning" is from the November 11, 2015 Science section of The New York Times. It was written by Karen Weintraub and narrated by Fleet Cooper.

"Learning from Obama" is from the March 31, 2016, Opinion section of The New York Times. It was written by Paul Krugman and narrated by Barbara Benjamin-Creel.

Las señales estaban a la vista, no solo en las calles sino en todos y cada uno de los informes de organismos internacionales. No verlas era un acto voluntarioso de ocultamiento de la realidad. Son más que simples dolores de crecimiento asociados a la modernización de Chile, tan exitosa en algunos aspectos, como el combate a la pobreza o la liberalización de la vida social.

In Enemy of the People, Marvin Kalb, an award-winning American journalist with more than six decades of experience both as a journalist and media observer, writes with passion about why we should fear for the future of American democracy because of the unrelenting attacks by the Trump administration on the press.

"What Our Sons Are Learning From Trump" is from the October 18, 2016 United States section of The New York Times. It was written by Claire Cain Miller and narrated by Caroline Miller.

L'école est le dernier rempart de la République ; l'école a abdiqué de tout rôle civique. Entre ces deux figures, le débat public oscille depuis de longues années, modernes contre classiques, "pédagogues" contre "républicains".

"Udacity, an Online Learning Startup, Offers Tech Job Trials" is from the November 17, 2016 Technology section of The New York Times. It was written by Steve Lohr and narrated by Kristi Burns.

After 13 years of war, the loss of many thousands of lives, and the expenditure of trillions of dollars, what has the United States learned? The answer depends on not only who is asking but when.