Is Israeli rule of the West Bank really a temporary occupation? As if.
America and the World
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You’re One of the Richest People in the World. You.
Half of the richest people in the world live in the U.S. … and you’re one of them.Â
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While You Were Out
Same-sex marriages in Spain and Mexico, the cost of being a same-sex couple in Michigan and the U.S. at large, and (woohoo!) transgender breakthroughs
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Jimmy Wales Needs Your Help
Amid concerns over its shrinking editor base, Wikipedia sets out to prove it can survive and expand on small donations.
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Friday Miscellany, Year-End 2011
A Navy sailor’s public kiss, a Ugandan activist’s courage, a hurrah for the Girl Scouts, and the passing of an accidental hero.
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End-of-a-Lifetime Chance
What are the prospects for a unified, nuclear-free Korea?
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The Last King of the Iron Curtain
What we’ve come to label as socialism can be more accurately described as old-school monarchy.
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There Goes the Last War Justification
Sectarian conflict returns to Iraq after last U.S. troops pull out.
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Vaclav Havel on Kim Jong-Il
Via @beingbrina, here is the Velvet Revolutionary’s comment on Dear Leader, in the Globe and Mail, 2004.
