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Celebrating Berlin While Enabling Israel's Apartheid Wall

Ahmed Shihab-Eldin | Posted 11.11.2009 | World

Read More: History, Apartheid, West Bank, Israel Wall, Middle East, Berlin, Angela Merkel, Israel, Berlin Wall, Injustice, Palestinians, Barack Obama, I, World News

The 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall highlights both the inherent thirst for freedom and proclivity to hypocrisy ingrained in the human condition.

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What is Work? Gail Collins: When Everything Changed

Sharon Glassman | Posted 11.03.2009 | Books

The women in When Everything Changed are gutsy, goal-setting, game-changing, God-chatting, family-loving individuals who share a belief in Change - and an enduring, if irrational love of sexy shoes.

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Afghanistan: A Whole New Approach

Jim Wallis | Posted 10.29.2009 | World

Read More: Capitol Hill, White House, President, Relief, President Obama, International, Indigenous, Council, Washington, War, Oxfam, Muslim Countries, Collateral Damage, Surge, America, Dick Cheney, Muslim, World Vision, Counter Insurgency, Terror, Development, Faith, History, Tragedy, Afghan Government, Democracy, Counter Terrorism, Special Forces, Religious, Terrorist, Richard Stearns, Congress, Unmanned Drones, Religious Leaders, Foreign Policy, Urgency, Moral Issues, Occupier, Arab, Taliban, Military, Afghanistan, Terrorism, Humanitarian Assistance, D.C., Casualties, Faith-Based, World News

When you massively intervene in a country as much as the U.S. has in Afghanistan, you can't responsibly just walk away. We must lead with what works -- development.

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Is Obama Keeping His Promises?

Newsweek | Anna Quindlen | Posted 10.24.2009 | Politics

Read More: Taxes, White House, War, Immigration, Obama, Campaign, Presidency, Barack Obama, President, Promises, History, Gay Rights, Campaign Promises, Spending, Analysis, Wall Street, Health Care, Promise, Politics News

History will judge Barack Obama over the long haul. But we've learned something in the short term that is simple, obvious, and has less to do with him...

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L.A. Times: Testimony Of Roman Polanski's Victim Turned "Almost Benign"

Los Angeles Times | Joe Mozingo | Posted 10.25.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: La, Switzerland, Crime, Case, Extradition, Quaaludes, Film, Rape, Sodomy, History, Testimony, Details, Samantha Gailey, Polanski Testimony, Polanski Trial, Roman Polanski, Hollywood, Entertainment News

An extensive review of several thousand court documents, as well as numerous interviews, shows a basic dynamic defining the entire saga -- one force t...

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Mad Hatters Don't Have Monopoly on Patriotism

David Segal | Posted 10.22.2009 | Politics

Read More: Election Reform, Providence Journal, Voting Rights, Progressives, Immigration, Rhode Island, Tea Party, Labor Unions, Providence, History, Dorr Rebellion, Politics News

In Rhode Island, it was left-leaning patriots, in the form of labor activists, immigrants, and suffragists, who propelled Rhode Island towards the ratification of its constitution in 1842.

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Getting the Vietnam Analogy Right in Afghanistan

Leon T. Hadar | Posted 10.21.2009 | World

Read More: Nazi Germany, President Obama, Lebanon, Iran, Hitler, China, History, Muslim, Saudi Arabia, Nato, Vietnam War, John Kennedy, Chechnya, Munich, Analogies, Czechoslovakia, Syria, Xinjiang, West Germany, South Vietnam, Hamas, Soviet Union, Hizbollah, Afghanistan War, Al Quaeda, Kashmir, Shiites, Iraq War, Communism, North VIetnam, Taliban, India, Lyndon Johnson, Cuba, Ospolitik, Detente, World News

The ghosts of the Vietnam War seem to be hanging around the White House Situation Room as President Obama and his national security aides debate a new strategy for the war in Afghanistan.

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The Opportunity Of Change

Gangaji | Posted 10.21.2009 | Living

Read More: Fulfillment, Change, The Inner Life, Peace, Politics, History, Gangaji, Living News

Either we fight it as it is appearing, or we mourn for it as it passes us by, but we are hardly ever at peace with change.

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John Brown's Body Lies A-Moldering in Upstate New York

Alfred Gingold | Posted 10.19.2009 | New York

Read More: History, Heroes, Harpers Ferry, Terrorism, Slavery, Terrorist, Civil War, Race, John Brown, Race Relations, Lake PLacid, New York News

150 years after his raid on Harpers Ferry, John Brown looms ever larger in the national psyche, either a great martyr to a just and necessary cause, or our first domestic terrorist.

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Columbus: Blundering into Immortality

Michael Kaplan | Posted 10.14.2009 | World

Read More: History, Gold, Columbus, Indians, America, Genocide, New World, Taino People, Christopher Columbus, Spice Islands, Native Americans, Discovery of America, World News

It is as well that Christopher Columbus was so sure of himself, because he was in many respects staggeringly incompetent. The very basis of his journey to the New World was a miscalculation.

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For a Solution in Afghanistan, Look South...and In the Past

Dagobert L. Brito | Posted 10.13.2009 | World

Read More: History, Obama Afghanistan, Afghanistan Surge, War in Afghanistan, Afghanistan, Mexican Revolution, Barack Obama, Afghan Election, Afghanistan War, World News

Through a combination of wise leadership and some fortunate historical accidents, the problems stemming from the Mexican Revolution in the 20th Century were solved with only limited American intervention.

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Dispelling the Myths Behind Columbus

Azam Nizamuddin | Posted 10.22.2009 | Books

Read More: History, Myths, Christopher Columbus, Columbus Day, Books News

Given that we reside in one of the most literate societies in history, it is our task to expose all myths for what they are, whether they relate to Christopher Columbus or to the origins of a sitting U.S. President.

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Forensic Accountants Dig Through George Washington's Financial Records

Washington Post | Joel Achenbach | Posted 10.12.2009 | Business

Read More: Papers of George Washington, History, Mount Vernon, Accounting, George Washington, Washington, Forensic Accountants, Financial Records, Uva, Business News

One day in 1791, President George Washington received a bill for 60 pounds, 1 shilling and 7 pence from his physician friend James Craik, who regularl...

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Unlearning the "Perfect Lessons" From History

Carol Smaldino | Posted 10.11.2009 | Politics

Read More: History, Germany, The Civil War, Naziism, Perfectionism, Bullying, Putin, War of Northern Aggression, Middle East, Columbus Day, Righteousness, Russia, Vladimir Putin, Stalin, Perfection, Carl Jung, Politics News

To admit our part in emotional and educational and political violence, through our modeling of hatred and righteousness or through our passivity, we would have to begin to turn the notion of perfectionism on its head.

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Republican Leaders Join In Honoring New Rotunda Statue Of Radical Socialist Woman

Chris Weigant | Posted 10.07.2009 | Politics

Read More: Marx, International Workers of the World, Mitch McConnell, Mcconnell, The Spirit of Lenin, John Boehner, Leninism, Wells, Teacher, Statue, Republican, History, Pelosi, Barbara Bindley, American History, Socialist, Lies My Teacher Taught Me, Nancy Pelosi, Russia, Syndicalist, Handicap, Reid, Radical, Red, Leaders, How I Became a Socialist, Socialism, Alabama, marxists.org, James W Loewen, Childhood, Lenin, Soviet Union, State Quarter, HG Wells, Chris Weigant, Revolutionary, Marxism, Harry Reid, Plutocrat, Why I Became an IWW, Republicans, Boehner, Aclu, Capitol, Brooklyn Eagle, Syndicalism, Rotunda, Loewen, Bindley, Iww, Wobblies, Wobbly, Politics News

A woman whose name we all know was a proud Red, a committed Socialist, and an unapologetic Wobbly. And now she's not only buried in the National Cathedral, she's got her own statue in the Capitol.

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Hilary Mantel Wins Booker Prize

The Huffington Post | Amy Hertz | Posted 10.06.2009 | Books

Read More: Authors, John Macrae, Oliver Cromwell, History, Books, Literary Prize, Holt, Wolf Hall, Hilary Mantel, Booker Prize, Booker, Mantel, Literary Prizes, Books News

It's official: Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall (John Macrae Books, Henry Holt & Co.) is the winner of the Man Booker Prize for 2009. Yes, this is a time fo...

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The Butch Cassidy Revival: Bank Robberies Keep the West Wild

Lise Waring | Posted 10.02.2009 | Denver

Read More: Telluride, History, Colorado, Butch Cassidy, Bank Robberies, Wild West, Crime, Criminal Justice, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Denver News

At least five banks have been robbed since April, the most recent on Sept. 22. The banks all lie a few hours south of Telluride. The news would, no doubt, have made Butch Cassidy proud.

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A Lesson From History

Lance Simmens | Posted 09.30.2009 | Politics

Read More: History, Military Industrial Complex, Eisehnower, Copenhagen Climate Council, Gettysburg, Diplomacy, Cold War, Khrushchev Eisenhower Meeting, Khruschev, Politics News

The fact that Eisenhower and Khrushchev could meet and share ideas speaks volumes to the need to reach out to the world community to solve what sometimes seem to be intractable problems.

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Ken Burns' New National Parks Documentary Starts Slowly, But Gets Better

Levi Novey | Posted 09.24.2009 | Green

Read More: Grand Canyon, Theodore Roosevelt, Yellowstone, Stephen Mather, Documentaries, Dayton Duncan, Everglades National Park, Gifford Pinchot, Franklin Roosevelt, Hawaii Volcanoes National Park, Lincoln Memorial, Great Smoky Mountains National Park, History, Tourism, Martin Luther King, Ken Burns, John Muir, National Park Service, Yosemite, Documentary, Mark Twain, PBS Documentaries, National Parks, Forest Service, The National Parks: America's Best Idea, Civilian Conservation Corps, Green Jobs, Green News

I suspect those who only watch the first few episodes will be teetering on the edge of boredom. Those who stay around longer, or just cherry-pick an episode to watch among the later ones will end up much more excited and satisfied.

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Women in Hip-Hop: The B-girl Be Festival

Lauri Lyons | Posted 09.18.2009 | Entertainment

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When it comes to women in hip-hop, don't call it a comeback. Women have been here for years.

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Sever the Link Between Populism and Racism

Scott Kurashige | Posted 09.18.2009 | Media

Read More: History, David Brooks, Racism, Jimmy Carter, Glenn Beck, Immigration, Tea Party, Barack Obama, Media News

David Brooks is a very clever and gifted writer. But his latest piece repudiating the role of race in the vitriolic backlash against Obama just doesn't pass muster.

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Pluralists vs. Technocrats

Mike Lux | Posted 11.15.2009 | Politics

Read More: Pluralism, Health Care Reform, Political Theory, History, Technocrats, Politics News

For health reform to work, you have to restructure the current system so that there is a significant check on the industry's power. President Obama understands this. Too many of those working for him don't.

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Calhoun Conservatism Raises Its Ugly Head

Mike Lux | Posted 11.11.2009 | Politics

Read More: History, 9/12 Movement, Rachel Maddow, The Progressive Revolution, Obama Health Care Speech, Radical Right, Rep. Joe Wilson, Health Care, Politics News

Joe Wilson's thuggishness on Wednesday night and the conservative movement's embrace of his action yesterday are just the latest examples of Calhoun Conservatism.

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The Handoff

Mike Lux | Posted 11.10.2009 | Politics

Read More: Obama September Health Care Speech, History, Speeches, 2009 Obama Administration, Ted Kennedy, The Progressive Revolution, Kennedy Health Care Letter, Politics News

The importance of Ted Kennedy's letter and goes far beyond sentimentality. The letter was a handoff, and in his speech Obama seemed to accept the baton.

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Why Gossip Matters So Much It Hurts

Richard Laermer | Posted 11.09.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Fake Fame, Bill Clinton, History, Puritans, Jennifer Aniston, Perez Hilton, Liz Smith, Tmz, Gossip, Tucker Max, David Beckham, Hedda Hopper, Media, Ralph Fiennes, Entertainment News

Buzzing about others is one of those immutable truisms of the human condition: people gossip for the sake of gossiping. Today, gossip is the province of shouters on the Web.

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