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Hillary Clinton and political inevitability.

Hello again, I'm Norman Alney, and this is To the Poet from Public Radio International.

The daily look at the issues Americans care about most.

Hillary Clinton was the inevitable Democratic presidential nominee for 2008. Now she's inevitable

for 2016. Are there second acts in American politics? We'll hear about potential challenges

from the progressive wing of the party and why many political pros think she's unstoppable

anyway if she decides to run.

Also today is Ukraine on the verge of civil war. The U.S. and Western Europe threaten economic

sanctions if the government doesn't call off its bloody crackdown against political protest.

We'll have an update from Kiev and hear what's at stake for the European Union and Vladimir Putin's Russia.

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Program Fund. Hello again, Warren Al- only, back with To the Poet.

Hillary Clinton would be America's first woman president if she were elected, but she'd need

the Democratic nomination to get there. We'll hear why she's considered unstoppable two years

before the first party primary if she decides to run. Also today, we'll update Ukraine's

crackdown on political protests

and why that divided country matters so much to the European Union and Russia.

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