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Billie Jean in Baghdad

Kathryn Schulz | Posted 11.16.2009 | Entertainment

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Kathryn Schulz

For every five people who have read Lolita in Tehran, roughly a billion have tried, in the privacy of their own rooms, to master the moonwalk.

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The Beginning of the End of the Iraq War?

Chris Weigant | Posted 07.30.2009 | World

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Chris Weigant

If our soldiers are out of Iraqi cities, and the Iraqi security forces start shouldering more and more responsibility as a result, do we really need all 130,000 troops sitting in their bases?

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Religious Minorities Under Siege in Iraq (VIDEO)

Jennifer Utz | Posted 01.18.2009 | World

Read More: Iraq War, Religion, Religious Minorities, Sabean Mandaen, Yazidi, Religion and Politics, Iraqi, Iraq, Christian, Refugees, Video, World News
Jennifer Utz

Facing forced conversions, kidnapping for ransom, and murder, religious minorities represent a starkly disproportionate amount of those who've left their homes to find safety elsewhere.

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Bush the Teflon Man

Logan Nakyanzi Pollard | Posted 01.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Silda Spitzer, Muntadhar Al-Zeidi, Economic, Markets, Ape, Ny Governor, Crime, Madoff, D-N.Y., Senate Banking Committee, Guantanamo, Gitmo, John Walsh, Punishment, Sen. Charles Schumer, Slate Magazine, Eliot Spitzer, Dick Cheney, Bush, Taxpayer, Penal Colony, Iraqi, Nazis, Requirements, Exit Interviews, Villainy, Shoe, Franz Kafka, Satisfaction, Bernard Madoff, Politics News
Logan Nakyanzi Pollard

Perhaps it was the sexual nature of Eliot Spitzer's offenses that made the shame stick. That and the fact that the former NY governor admitted he did wrong. Bush by contrast is today's Teflon man.

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Iraqi Refugees to Government's Return Offer: "No, Thanks"

Jennifer Utz | Posted 12.24.2008 | Politics

Read More: Politics, Iraqi, Iraq, Refugees, War, Iraq War, Iraqi Refugees, Warwire, Displaced Iraqis, Video, Politics News
Jennifer Utz

The Iraqi government is offering one million dinars, the equivalent of $850 USD, and free plane tickets to any refugee family wishing to go back -- so far less than 400 people have accepted the offer.

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Memo To Right-Wing: Withdrawal Timetable Now Doubleplusgood

Chris Weigant | Posted 12.18.2008 | Politics

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Chris Weigant

I'm on a lot of strange press lists, so I get a lot of strange press releases, but this is the first time I've ever gotten one from another dimension, I have to admit.

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We are like a city on a hill

Logan Nakyanzi Pollard | Posted 11.08.2008 | Politics

Read More: Journalists, Diyala, Bombings, Fairy Tale, Obama, Puritan, Colonists, Province, Shiite, America, Pakistani Capital, Old Lord, Northern Sri Lanka, Border Region, John Winthrop, Terrorism, Mother Jones, Sevenfold, Algerian Capital, Prince, Army General, Islamabad, City Upon a Hill, Iraq War, Baghdad, Algeria, Mosques, Sunni, Female Suicide Bomber, Harper's Magazine, Pakistan, Iraqi, Jodhpur, Iraqi Officials, John McCain, Iraq Violence, India, Jamal Tawfiq, Opposition Leader, Politics News
Logan Nakyanzi Pollard

This election will show the public's choice, its mandate for the type of leader it wants to deal with complex issues, like why people use terrorism as a tactic to dialogue with those in power.

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