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Is It Fear of Uprisings or Altruistic Punishment?
(Photo: Thomas Hawk / Flickr) If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom and yet depreciate agitation, are men who …
The Celestial Computers of Ancient Greece
The Antikythera Mechanism at the Boston Museum of Science. (Photo: davelin66) Just before Easter 1900, Greek sponge-fishers were on their way to the waters of Tunisia when …
Deborah Small: A Real Conversation on Drug Policy
"We're able to maintain the illusion that we're fighting a war on drugs and that we're protecting young people we're doing it on the backs of poor people. Poor …
Black Legislators on Frontline Against AZ-Style Immigration Bills
New York - As immigrant advocates battle hardline immigration bills in state capitols across the country, they’re receiving crucial support from caucuses of black legislators.
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From Baghdad’s Own Tahrir Square to Mosul: The Friday of the Free
Lieven De Cauter presents a letter from his colleague in Iraq, Asma Al Haidari: April 15th. What am I to write to you about today? It is …
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In the War on Drugs, Success Means Failure
Members of the Costa Rican Coast Guard prepare to board a fishing boat to inspect it for cocaine near Puntarenas, Costa Rica, March 4, 2011. (Photo: Tomas Munita …
Surprise, Surprise: Iraq War Was About Oil
A U.S. soldier looks over the Baiji Refinery in Baiji, Iraq, Dec. 16, 2009. (Photo: Ayman Oghanna / The New York Times) Afghanistan may be the …
The Verdict: Guilty of Protesting the Drones
A MQ-1B Predator unmanned aircraft system takes off for a training mission at Creech Air Force Base, Nevada.(Photo: Senior Airman Larry E. Reid Jr. / US Air Force) …
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Qaddafi Forces Said to Withdraw From Misrata, but Meaning Is Unclear
A rebel fighter carries a Degtyaryov machine gun at the western gate of Ajdabiya, Libya, April 8, 2011. (Photo: Bryan Denton / The New York Times) …
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Resistance to Fracking, Gas Drilling Rises on Unlikely Soil
A pump used in fracturing sits on a golf course in Fort Worth, Texas in October 2009. (Photo: Matt Nager / The New York Times) Fort …