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Weekly Review

by Paul Ford,

A kinkajou, 1886. Twin car bomb attacks just outside the Green Zone in Baghdad destroyed three government buildings, killed 155 people, and injured 520. The attack was the country’s worst…

Weekly Review

by Margaret Cordi,

The wire master and his puppets, 1875. As the United States marked the eighth anniversary of its war in Afghanistan, General Stanley McChrystal asked President Barack Obama to send 40,000…

All too human

by Geoffrey Wheatcroft,

The rise and fall of Henry Fairlie

Disaster Aversion

by Rivka Galchen,

The quest to control hurricanes

To each according to his greed

by Slavoj Zizek,

A Christian martyr. President Barack Obama addressed a joint session of Congress and implored Democrats to pass their own health-care legislation. During the speech, the president noted that the bill…

Weekly Review

by Claire Gutierrez,

An American cattleman. Polls showed that the level of public support for health-care reform was plummeting, a result of both Democratic capitulation–as when Senate Finance Committee Chair Max Baucus (D.,…

Developmentally disabled

by Ken Silverstein,

Why foreign aid to Afghanistan stays in America

Minority death match

by Naomi Klein,

Jews, blacks, and the "post-racial" presidency

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The cold we caused

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The cold we caused

Weekly Review

Weekly Review

All too human

Disaster Aversion

Sprinkler city

To each according to his greed

Weekly Review

Weekly Review

Developmentally disabled

Minority death match

September 2009

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