PEPFAR’s anti-prostitution “loyalty oath” is hindering aid groups’ efforts to help sex workers.
America and the World
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If at First You Don’t Succeed, Bomb, Bomb Again
Those who have been proved most wrong in the Middle East remain immune to the caution with which others now approach events in the region.
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Pakistan’s Industry of Violence
In the wake of election violence, one reporter explores the country’s acceptance of its bloody everyday—and how different it is from the United States’ reaction to bloodshed
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Egypt’s Hot New Sound
A mix of sped up wedding songs and synthesizers made on computers with pirated software, a new dance music out of Cairo’s slums and dealing with social issues is sweeping the country.
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Do Drones Work?
Congress hasn’t debated whether the civilian and psychological costs that come with targeted killings are worthwhile in the long run. It should.
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The Transgender Candidate
Bindiya Rana doesn’t expect to emerge victorious once all of the votes from Saturday’s election in Pakistan are counted, but the fact that her name was on the ballot is something worth celebrating.
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Why Israel Can’t Be Part of Obama’s Calculus on Syria
John McCain is wrong, and Israel is a mere spectator to this debate.
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Sex, Economics, and Austerity
The real meaning of Niall Ferguson’s John Maynard Keynes-was-gay jibe—and why Keynes is so threatening to conservative economists and moralists alike.
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The Isolationists Are Coming!
You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
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The Frankenstein Foreign-Policy Crisis
It’s hard to remember a problem as large as Syria, for which there are so few prospects and those that we have are so barely tolerable.
