Has Al-Qaeda become more of a threat to US?

Has Al-Qaeda become more of a threat to the US? 

Guest:

Former Rep. Jane Harman (D-Calif.)
Director, president, and CEO of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.

How effective are US policies on Iran, Syria, and China?   

Guest: 

Anne-Marie Slaughter @SlaughterAM
President and CEO of the New America Foundation (@NewAmerica), professor emerita at Princeton University, and former director of policy planning for the U.S. State Department. Author of "Why Women Still Can't Have It All," a 2012 article in The Atlantic.

Glitches on the Obamacare website have been addressed, but has access to health care improved? 

Guests: 

Jennifer Haberkorn @jenhab
Health care policy reporter for Politico.

Michael Shure @MichaelShure
Al Jazeera America contributor.

Read the latest on Obamacare's website (via Al Jazeera America).  

Black Friday sales figures disappoint, Supreme Court refuses to review case on online sales tax 

Guest: 

Claire Zillman @ClaireZillman 
Reporter for Fortune.com. 

Read more on Black Friday sales (via US News & World Report) and the case about online sales tax (via The New York Times). 

China launches first lunar probe, SpaceX delays its private rocket launch a second time, and what happened to Comet ISON?

Guest: 

Derrick Pitts @coolastronomer
Chief astronomer at The Franklin Institute Science Museum.

Read more on the Chinese rocket (via Al Jazeera America), the second launch delay for SpaceX (via Reuters), and NASA weighing in on Comet ISON (via NPR).

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