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Pakistan’s Road to China
An elderly man sells pastries to a gathering crowd outside the compound where Osama bin Laden was reportedly killed in Abottabad, Pakistan, May 4, 2011. (Photo: Warrick Page / …
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Women Lose Livelihood Centres to Militants
Peshawar - Housewife Shahida Jabeen was devastated when she heard the news that she could no longer take sewing and embroidery classes at the local training centre in her …
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An All-American Retirement System: Building for the Future
(Photo: Markus Reuter / Flickr) While Congress bickers and the president dithers, roads are crumbling, bridges are failing, dams are cracking and water and sewer systems are …
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Private Practice and Public Laws: The Patronizing Lectures that Television Depicts and Texas Now Requires
Last Friday afternoon, I watched an episode of Private Practice that had aired the week before and was not all that surprised when one of the story lines focused on abortion. …
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Disabled Abandon Wheelchairs, Protest Medicaid Cuts
(Photo: moni / Flickr) When Sheela Gunn-Cushman decided to take part in a die-in at the California Republican Convention at the Hyatt Regency in Sacramento in March, …
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Time to Crackdown on Child-Focused Ads
Is Snoop Dogg the new Joe Camel? Is Ronald McDonald? What about Facebook — has that website become synonymous with an infamous tobacco industry cartoon that preyed on unsuspecting …
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For Emerging Economies, a Dilemma Becomes a “Trilemma“
(Photo: Stephen Crowley / The New York Times) Vladimir Putin says we’re hooligans; Brazil accuses the United States of engaging in “currency wars”; and the Chinese are, …
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Plenty of Plenty in the New Food Plutocracy
As food prices, both in this country and abroad, continue their steady ascent, the amount we should pay for food remains a contested issue. In a February 21, 2011, …
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Democracy Talks – Listen Up!
(Image: The New Press) Bill Moyers has a new book out. In the interest of full disclosure, I edited the book with him and co-wrote its introduction. …
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Mubarak to Face Trial for Killing of Protesters
Cairo - Egypt’s top prosecutor on Tuesday ordered former President Hosni Mubarak to stand trial in connection with the killing of unarmed protesters during the 18-day-revolt that forced him …