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Pakistan detains lawyers, allegations of torture surface

Sanhita SinhaRoy

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Mikhaela B. Reid

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Funding Iraqs Citizen Soldiers

Is the Pentagon's neighborhood watch strategy protecting Iraqis or stoking the civil war?

Jessica Pupovac

Norman Mailer Dead At 84

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August Pollak

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The New Road to Serfdom

Over the course of 500 pages in The Shock Doctrine, Naomi Klein documents the moments of chaos and disruption that allow a small coterie of experts to swoop in and administer what's invariably called "bitter medicine," "painful reforms" or "shock therapy"

Christopher Hayes

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Mikhaela B. Reid

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Biofuels Are No Cure for Climate Change

Don't judge a climate cure by its color. Give it a rub, and you'll find that the term 'biofuels' is actually obscuring an insidious reality

Megan Tady

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Mikhaela B. Reid

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Lobbying for Cancer

Corporations are co-opting the federal Data Quality Act to paralyze scientists with frivolous allegations of inaccuracy, driving a stealth assault on public-health research

Michelle Chen

Review of Break Through

Brian Cook

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Terry LaBan

Musharraf’s Democracy

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NCLB? No sir.

Adam Doster

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The Disturbing Sounds of the Turkish March

The true problem with "militaristic humanism" resides not in "militaristic," but in "humanism," in the way a military intervention is presented as humanitarian aid

Slavoj Žižek

You know what grinds my gears?

Adam Doster

Caging the Iran Hawks

Adam Doster

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Banana Republic to Baby Republic

Guatemala could shut down its massive adoption industry

Jacob Wheeler