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Op-Ed
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The Power of Song, From Selma to Syria
How should music rank among the ever-growing list of time-tested nonviolent methods such as boycotts, marches, strikes, sit-ins, and vigils?
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Right-Wing Pundits Jumped to Blame Muslims and “Jihadists” for Norway Attacks
When news began to unfold on Friday of the terror attacks in Norway that has left more than 90 dead, many blogs and Twitter accounts immediately lit up with …
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Mubarak and Murdoch: The Arab Spring Gives Way to the Anglo-American Summer
Tourists look on as members of the protest group Avaaz hold an anti-Rupert Murdoch demonstration outside Parliament in London, on July 19, 2011. (Photo: Andrew Testa / The New …
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Breaking the Israel-Palestine Impasse
On a recent trip to Israel, I visited a school in Sderot featuring bunkers in the playground. I asked the principal what she thought about her government: “Things are …
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Why Medicare is the Solution – Not the Problem
Bertha G. Milliard, 94, with nurse Ruth Collins, a nurse, during a home-care visit in Fort Fairfield, Maine, in November 2009. (Photo: Craig Dilger / The New York Times) …
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Rupert Murdoch vs. Edward R. Murrow and Izzy Stone
On Saturday morning, Rupert Murdoch apologized to the British public in a full-page advertisement that will run for three days in seven national newspapers stating: “We are …
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Third Prize: You’re Fired
In the movie Glengarry Glen Ross, Alec Baldwin walks into the office of underperforming salesmen and shakes them to their core. He's the guy from the head office, and …
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Put 15 Million Back to Work Fixing $2.2 Trillion in Infrastructure: Resurrect the Works Progress Administration
(Photo: Stephen Crowley / The New York Times) Perhaps all is not lost for the republic's economic future, even as its leaders let this nation hurtle toward …
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The Talmud and Greek Debt
A page of Talmud. (Photo: Chajm Guski / Flickr) Buenos Aires – There are two ways to look at Greece’s majestically unsustainable sovereign-debt mountain. There is, first, …
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Afghan Judges Accuse U.S. of War Crimes
I recently sat down for 90 minutes to speak with six Afghan judges, all of them women, and an English-Dari interpreter, a man. They spoke to me as …