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Mideast peace talks begin

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Illegal immigration down 67% since 2000, but why?

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A Newsweek departing editor on the war fever that followed 9/11 in the American media

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Tony Blair’s new memoir: the political fallout

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After 50+ years, Germany prepares to end the draft

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Bjorn Lomborg, the scientific face of the global-warming denialist movement, does a U-turn and says more money needs to be spent fighting climate change

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The best way to help Pakistan

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Glenn Beck’s absurd march on Washington

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Hurricane season 2010: Bermuda braces for Danielle

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Rwanda accused of genocide in Congo

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Somalia braces for more Islamist attacks

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Former RNC Chair Ken Mehlman comes out of the closet

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Afghan President Karzai’s top aide being investigated for corruption is on the CIA payroll

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Five years after Katrina, New Orleans is still in recovery mode

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British spy found dead, stabbed and wrapped in plastic at his home just one mile from MI6 headquarters

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A record number of women running for parliament in Afghanistan

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Why didn’t US vaccinate hens to get rid of salmonella?

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At least 33 killed in attack on Somali hotel

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Mass rapes in eastern Congo

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The billionaire Koch brothers’ war against Obama

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Iran’s new nuclear reactor is not worrisome part of its nuclear program

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Seven hostages killed in Manila bus siege

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Updated: Sweden withdraws arrest warrant for WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange, saying rape accusation unfounded

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Wyclef Jean barred from Haiti election

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As Iran opens its Russian-built reactor, unease between Tehran and Moscow

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Tom McCarthy’s C

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The London Review of Books’ adieu to Frank Kermode

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Kant, development, and reason

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Behind the scenes: Mad Men

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Isaac Asimov and the joys of reading older science fiction

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Issue One of Longshot Magazine

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What happened to the working class in American fiction?

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Matt Taibbi on Tea Party madness

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St. Petersburg, Russia’s cultural capital

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The shallowness of Judd Apatow’s America

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The rise of James Bond, and why 007 should be retired from film

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Jonathan Franzen’s Shakespearean turn

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Tony Judt on Cambridge in the Sixties

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My Dog Tulip, the book and movie

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The Dreyfus Affair and Guantanamo

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Why the Golden Gate Bridge is painted reddish-orange

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Sad but true: Ayn Rand fan lets the world know via GPS

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Freedom isn’t free? It is for Obama, and he got it well before the pub. date

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Truffaut’s last interview

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The art of parody

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Frank Kermode, British literary critic, dies

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The web is dead, proclaims Wired magazine

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Color photos document the Depression, 1939-1943

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Jack London’s dark side

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Imagination and fiction

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Shooting Collaborators: LIFE magazine, 1944

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What the United States can learn from Germany

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Hurricane proofing Manhattan

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The man. The myth. William Shatner

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A Toronto reporter finds out how panhandlers spend money

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Plumpy’nut, food aid, and the peanut butter wars

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Roddick tumbles at US Open

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How would today’s top tennis players fare with wood rackets? (video)

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How the Communist Party changed Canadian elections

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European workers are more efficient than Americans. That’s why they get all that time off

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Who really did first say (or write) that journalism is the first rough draft of history?

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Hitchens: Glenn Beck and White Fear

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Anne Applebaum on Seven Years of the Iraq War

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New maps show how mankind re-shaped the earth

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One major gap remains on Rafael Nadal’s tennis CV: the US Open

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South Africa, the world’s No. 1 asylum destination

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Murdoch is too powerful, says BBC director

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Why do Americans love Winston Churchill more than the British do?

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Naz-stalgia: Britain’s MI5 releases files on German WW II-era spies

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Meet Ariel Antigua, the five-year-old slugger who can hit Major League heat

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In 2003 Congress passed legislation to prevent prison rape. So why hasn’t it been implemented?

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What went wrong with Google Wave? For one thing, no one knew why it existed

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NFL seeks to add two regular-season games to schedule (because baseball already lasts forever)

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New York taxes… sliced bagels?

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The search for a stress vaccine

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