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Three Cups of a Flawed Hero: The Limits of Greg Mortenson’s Model of Change
It's tempting to expect perfection from those we admire, but we romanticize lone heroes at our peril. A few years before one-time supporter Jon Krakauer challenged the truthfulness of …

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Is Growth Incomplete Without Social Progress?
A homeless boy in Nepal. (Photo: Wen-Yan King) Washington, DC - The geography of poverty and social deprivation has changed dramatically over the last two decades. More …

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Has Bin Laden Already Won?
Osama bin Laden is dead. You’ve seen the news. US troops stormed the mansion where he was hiding, an hour’s drive from Islamabad, in the backyard of Pakistan’s elite military …

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Obama Bags Osama
President Obama’s shocking May Day announcement that Osama bin Laden has been killed and his body captured promises to usher in a new era of U.S. foreign and domestic …

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Honoring All Mamas on Mother’s Day
On Mother’s Day, it’s easy to get caught up in the Hallmark image of Mom. Even in the 21st century, the idealized mother often appears as straight, married and, …

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Haiti: Just When You Think It Can’t Get Worse
We may soon look back on this period in Haiti with greater appreciation. Amidst the world-historic levels of death and suffering from last January’s earthquake, citizens have at least …

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Young Mizrahi Israelis’ Open Letter to Arab Peers
Women at a class at Hiber use a ball of string to illustrate social media in Dheiban, Jordan, on Feb. 12, 2011. Online activists at the company train young …

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The Road to Arab Democracy
Egyptian flags are waved as Egyptians protest in Cairo's Tahrir Square, April 1, 2011. (Photo: Andrea Bruce / The New York Times) Jerusalem - During the turmoil …

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Canada Turns Hard Right, to Israel’s Benefit
On May 02, 2011, Canadian electors voted in a majority government for the former minority government of Stephen Harper and the Conservative Party. The Conservatives won 167 out of …

Taking Credit Versus Taking Action
President Barack Obama listens during a meeting in the Situation Room of the White House on Sunday, May 1, 2011.