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You Think Philly’s Corrupt? Try Doing Business in China

A powerful government official becomes involved in a murder scandal that threatens the Chinese hierarchy. A blind activist shines light on the country’s harsh human […]

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U.S. Shouldn’t Pay to Prevent Hamid Karzai’s Beheading

Afghanistan is the war that America doesn’t want, but will never end. So why aren’t more people outraged? Where are the protests? Where is the […]

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Someone Remind Walmart That Corporations Are People

It’s fitting, isn’t it, that now, some two years after BP’s Deepwater Horizon blowout sullied the Gulf of Mexico for generations to come, new evidence […]

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Five Carousing Tips for Naughty Secret Service Agents

Here we are in day five of Secret Service Colombian Hooker-gate. You know the story by now: In advance of President Obama’s visit to the […]

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Bring Back the Draft

How you feeling about that war in Afghanistan these days? Ready to sign up for duty? Afghanistan is the war no one covers much, the […]

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Thank Goodness Robert Bales Might’ve Stolen From Old People

Robert Bales is the 99 percent. According to this New York Times profile, he grew up in a Norwood, Ohio, in a brick two-story that […]

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The U.S. Should Get Out of Afghanistan Now

A sample of headlines since a U.S. soldier went on a killing rampage in Afghanistan: “Afghanistan’s Taliban Suspend Peace Talks with U.S.“; “Afghan Protesters Demand U.S. […]

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10 Ways Kony 2012 Suckered You

Thank you, Kony 2012. Actually, strike that. Thank you, Jezebel. And Foreign Affairs. And my best friend from kindergarten who’s currently living in Uganda and […]

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Stop Kony Video Inspires Millions to Care

It is safe to say that last week, 99 percent of the people in this country had never heard the name Joseph Kony. That percentage […]

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Iran’s Secret Nuclear Weapons Research

The U.N. has pointed to a thousand pages of documents that indicate that Iran is moving toward building a nuclear weapon for military purposes. The […]

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The EU Pays for Greece’s Laziness, Irresponsibility

Greece. What a country! From its storied history as the cradle of democracy to leadership in modern security techniques (allowing stray dogs to sleep atop […]