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Burma’s Turn
Yangon - Here in Myanmar (Burma), where political change has been numbingly slow for a half-century, a new leadership is trying to embrace rapid transition from within. The government …
How to Honor Rush Limbaugh on International Women’s Day (Video)
As of this writing, 49 sponsors have pulled out of the Rush Limbaugh show after his repeated demeaning remarks about Georgetown law student Sandra Fluke. But of course, …
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Are the War Hawks Watching? In Lauded Iranian Film, Self-Interest Yields Tragedy
(Image: FilmIran / Sony Pictures Classics / Memento Films) It's hard not to view the Oscar for Best Foreign Film awarded to Iran's “A Separation” as at …
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Un-Cheating Justice: Two Years Left to Prosecute Bush
President George Bush at the Oval Office, in Washington, March 25, 2008. (Photo: Doug Mills/The New York Times) Elizabeth Holtzman knows something about struggles for justice in …
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Rush Limbaugh
Beautiful Acts of Resistance
Just moments after performing a dramatic final death scene, Palestinian playwright Abdelfattah Abusrour was back on stage delivering an afterword that was no less intense. Speaking softly, Abusrour told …
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Landing on Mars: A First Impression of Guantanamo Bay
The entrance of the prison at Camp Delta in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, on June 8, 2010. (Photo: Richard Perry / The New York Times) One pair …
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America’s Image Problem
The United States definitely sends mixed messages to the Muslim world. Early in his presidency, Barack Obama went to Cairo to “seek a new beginning between the United States …
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Military Strikes Not the Answer in Syria
Protesters gather after the funeral of a member of the Free Syrian Army, a militia mostly made up of army defectors, in the Damascus suburb of Saqba, in Syria, …
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In Iraq, Occupation by Another Name
Two recent reports appearing on the same day last week in The New York Times and The Washington Post illustrate U.S. intentions in Iraq. What they reveal is that …