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Plight Simulator

Lines of dialogue from a test version of the First Person Cultural Trainer, a computer game developed by a research team at the University of Texas at Dallas. The game…

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The Master of Spin Boldak

Undercover with Afghanistan’s drug-trafficking border police

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The Intelligence Factory

How America makes its enemies disappear

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The War We Can’t Win

By Andrew J. Bacevich, in the August 15 issue of Commonweal. Bacevich is a professor of international relations at Boston University and the author, most recently, of The Limits of…

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A really big show

The New York Philharmonic's fantasia in North Korea

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Human Quicksand

For the U.S. Army, a Crash Course in Cultural Studies

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Teen Beat

From a February 2003 video recording of an interrogation by Canadian officials of Omar Khadr, a Canadian national accused of killing a U.S. soldier in Afghanistan and currently held at…

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Inhuman Resources

From the minutes of a Counter Resistance Strategy Meeting, held October 2, 2002, at Guantánamo Bay. The minutes, which paraphrase comments and questions from the meeting, were released June 17…

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Many People Have Done Worse

From a video recording of a July meeting in London between Stephen Payne and Yerzhan Dosmukhamedov. Payne is president of the lobbying firm Worldwide Strategic Partners. Dosmukhamedov, a.k.a. Eric Dos,…

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