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Default, Downturn, Then Recovery
The Woman’s Bridge, in a fast-growing neighborhood in Buenos Aires. Argentina’s economy is recovering after a default in 2003. (Photo: Horacio Paone for the New York Times) …

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Four Reasons Why Pfc. Bradley Manning Deserves the Presidential Medal of Freedom, Not a Prison Cell
We still don’t know if he did it or not, but if Bradley Manning, the 24-year-old Army private from Oklahoma, actually supplied WikiLeaks with its choicest material — the …

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Washington Dysfunction: A Scorecard
Washington - Here's why getting to a deal on the debt ceiling is so complicated. President Obama's main goal is to get through this fight with the …

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In Israel, a Tsunami Warning
A Palestinian demonstrator argues with an Israeli soldier, while other protesters run a bulldozer into a fence barrier close by, near the village of Bilin on the West Bank, …

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Flotilla Passengers Are Today’s Freedom Riders
Demonstrators on the American boat, "The Audacity of Hope," which plans to be part of the international flotilla to Gaza, at a port near Athens, Greece, June 30, 2011. …

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Bachmann Flunks Canadian History, Too
Michelle Bachman speaks at a Tea Party Rally in Washinton DC, March 31, 2011. (Photo: markn3tel) Travel, they say, improves the mind, a notion once rightly castigated …

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The Tea Party and Goldman Sachs: A Love Story
A view of the Goldman Sachs building at 200 West street in New York, April, 18, 2010. Last year Goldman Sachs spent $4.6 million lobbying Congress to soften the …

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Massey Energy’s Man-Made Hellhole
Paul Jackson, director of operations, right, talks with a miner inside Teco Energy's E3-1 coal mine in Hazard, Ky., on April 14, 2010. Investigations into the Upper Big Branch …

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Industry Views Prevail on Radiation Risks, Health Experts Unheard on Health Effects of Fukushima
US media coverage of the nuclear disaster in Japan contains vanishingly little serious discussion of the human health risks posed by the radiation escaping from the Fukushima nuclear facility. …

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A New Dawn for the US Left
Protesters demonstrate against provisions of Governor Walker's Budget Repair Bill, February, 2011, Madison, Wisconsin. (Photo: Richard Hurd) Prospects for the left in the United States are far …