Suicide Bomb In Istanbul Kills Five, Wounds 36

A suicide bomber attacked a major pedestrian street in central Istanbul on Saturday, killing five people, including himself, and injuring 36, officials say.

The explosion struck Istiklal Street, The Associated Press reports, a busy street full of cafes, shops, restaurants and foreign consulates.

Zeynep Bilginsoy, reporting from Istanbul, tells our Newscast unit that the bomb struck at 11 a.m. local time.

“The Istanbul governor said the suicide bomber detonated in front of the district governor’s building,” Zeynep says. “The neighborhood has been cordoned off and helicopters can be heard over the city.”

The strike comes less than a week after a car bomb in Ankara, Turkey’s capital, killed more than three dozen people. In January, an explosion in a tourist neighborhood in Istanbul killed 13 tourists.

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/03/19/471077610/suicide-bomb-in-istanbul-kills-five-wounds-36

Democrats Debate: What Is A Progressive And Who Wants To Be One

Before they got down to debating the big issues Thursday night, Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders wrangled over one big word: progressivism.

Which of them was the true progressive? Was Clinton a progressive at all?

Sanders has long billed himself as a progressive, also describing himself as a “democratic socialist.” He has not been known for flirting with the term “moderate.” But Clinton has at times willingly chosen the latter label.

Being a moderate might be a good strategy in many political contexts, such as a general election in November of a year divisible by 4.

But in a hotly contested presidential primary, where the more active and partisan Democrats predominate, it makes sense to call yourself a progressive.

http://www.npr.org/2016/02/05/465671983/democrats-debate-what-is-a-progressive-and-who-wants-to-be-one

Millennials Want To Send Troops To Fight ISIS, But Don’t Want To Serve

In the wake of the Paris attacks, a majority of young Americans support sending U.S. ground troops to fight ISIS, according to a wide-ranging new poll from the Harvard Institute of Politics.

The institute has asked millennials about the idea of American boots on the ground at three different times this year, and the survey results have fluctuated somewhat, but there seems to be a “hardening of support.”

http://www.npr.org/2015/12/10/459111960/millennials-want-to-send-troops-to-fight-isis-but-not-serve

Week In Politics: Iran Nuclear Deal And Presidential Campaigns

http://www.npr.org/2015/07/17/423899366/week-in-politics-iran-nuclear-deal-and-presidential-campaigns