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Hezbollah once denied involvement in Syria. Now it considers it a point of honor

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Patrick Cockburn on the war in Syria

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Swedish riots continue

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Pussy Riot members in hunger strike

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Live updates on the devastating Oklahoma twister and recovery efforts

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Hezbollah fighters joining Syrian army assault on rebel strongholds

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BP and Shell in price-rigging inquiry

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Declan Wash, Irish chronicler of Pakistan, expelled from the country

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Cleveland, Patient X of the housing crisis

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US to retain nine bases in Afghanistan after “withdrawal”

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Death toll in Bangladesh garment factory collapse tops 800

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The White House debate over Syria

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Amtrak is losing many federal subsidies. Will the states step up?

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The fall of Guantanamo?

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Settler stabbed to death in West Bank

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Hamas cracking down on Western hair cuts and other “unIslamic” tendencies in Gaza

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Don’t worry business flyers. There’s a bipartisan push to end the sequester-induced delays and inconveniences. Government’s message to poor folks that don’t fly? Tough it out

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Garment factory in Bangladesh collapses. Hundreds of workers killed

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Abenomics and the soaring Nikkei

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Charged with what? The Boston Bombers’ weapons were not WMDs

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Miranda rights in Boston?

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Did the FBI drop the ball after being tipped to the militant leanings of Boston bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev?

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CISPA passes House easily

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Boston Marathon bombing suspect killed; second suspect, his younger brother, still at large as massive manhunt continues

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Musharraf flees Pakistan court to avoid arrest after bailed denied

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Likable characters

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Sherwood Anderson and the creation of the modern short story

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Is Humbert Humbert Jewish?

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Michelle Rhee’s self-serving memoir

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Alain de Botton’s awful book about sex

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Laptop U

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New Italian epics

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Forgotten man James Salter remembered again

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Imelda Marcos, disco queen

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Salman Rushdie on censorship in China

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The pleasures of Dr. Johnson

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The Great Gatsby video game

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What happened to the kids of Kids?

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Steven Soderbergh on the state of cinema

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Ormond Gigli’s women in the windows

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Who was Spartacus?

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Muriel Spark’s new biography of Mary Shelley

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Noah Baumbach gets happy

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More Salinger letters

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William Gibson on Burroughs and the web

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At home with Claire Messud and James Wood

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Redux: The Paris Review interviews William Burroughs

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Was Pushkin black?

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MoMA’s act of vandalism

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Matter acquired by Medium

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The art of attention: Sven Birkerts rides a stationary bike

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Fracking could destroy German beer industry

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Obama and freedom of the press

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Lybrido, Viagra for women

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Unknown mathematician may have bridged the prime gap, one of math’s greatest problems

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How far did PBS go to avoid offending right-wing billionaire-sponsor David Koch?

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El Paso

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What happened to Haiti?

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Efrain Rios Montt, Reagan’s favorite genocidaire

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Chavismo after Chavez

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People have been trying to bring back home cooking for 200 years

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Forget the dunk. The teardrop is the most beautiful shot in basketball

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An interview with Julian Assange

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Hospital price disparities in America’s broken healthcare system

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Regal introduces close-caption glasses for deaf moviegoers

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Susan Crawford’s crusade against overpriced, lousy internet providers

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Cyprus’s depositor haircuts

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How the big banks get away with it

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Thoughts on drone bombing from a young Yemeni writer

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NBA veteran center Jason Collins comes out in moving Sports Illustrated essay

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Are Kosovo’s leaders guilty of war crimes?

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An important referendum in Croatia. Concerning golf!

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He’s baaack

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Why does America lose its head when terror strikes yet ignore daily gun deaths?

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Gen Y and the economy

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