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Regime change à la Iraq. Saddam Hussein captured in Tikrit in December, 2003. Wikicommons/ US army photo. Some rights reserved.An Arab leader defies the west and a plan is devised to invade his country and remove him. But everything goes wrong. The invasion is bungled, provokes outrage at home and abroad, and spawns a progeny …
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This summer, Washington became the fifth state to pass a family leave act. In the United States, all employers are required by federal law to give new parents (birth and adopted) 12 weeks off work. That sounds pretty good, but there are a few problems. The main one: That time off doesn’t have to be paid. This is a …
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Black Sea helicopter forces drill in Crimea. (c) Vasily Batanov / RIA Novosti. All rights reserved.The drums of war are beating. Earlier this year, a controversial (and critiqued) study by the RAND Corporation claimed that Russia could essentially overrun the Baltic states in three days, and there was nothing NATO could do about it. This …
Most teenagers think they’re invincible and don’t start worrying about their health until they are much older. But 16-year-old Lynly Brennan is making a name for herself for being concerned about the health of her community. After a considerable outreach effort, Brennan raised enough money to install sunscreen dispensers at five pools in her county. It all began …
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Turkey: Erdogans Gamble, 2015. Lefteris Pitarakis /Press Association. All rights reserved.Mahmood Delkhasteh (MD): Is there any difference between the 14 July coup and previous coups in Turkey? Abolhassan Banisadr (AB): Until last month’s coup, the putsches which were conducted by the Turkish army were carried out under the pretext of defending laicite against violation. Each …
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This is a woman playing golf. This is a man playing golf. It sure seems like they’re playing the same sport, huh? You’d think the expectations surrounding their attire would reflect that, but a new controversial email sent out by the Ladies Professional Golf Association (LPGA) has thrown that into question. And people definitely have …
Read More “Here’s What’s Going On With The Drama Surrounding The LPGA’s New Dress Code”
Premises of community -run radio Radio Mandu'arä, in the remote rural east of Paraguay. Photo: Toby Hill. All rights reserved. For 14 years, Juan Aveiro broadcast Radio Mandu’arã to a cluster of communities in a remote corner of eastern Paraguay. He and his team of volunteer journalists worked from a makeshift studio painted pink. On …
Read More “Rural Paraguayans fight for land amid corruption, poverty and violence”
Mushroom cloud from UK Air Support Bombing, Afghanistan. Photo: POA/Sean Clee. Last week, British Home Secretary Amber Rudd announced the publication of the government’s first Annual Report on its National Security Strategy and Strategic Defence and Security Review (SDSR 2015). Given the current international climate, this is an important exercise. The report is potentially a …
Read More “UK National Security Strategy: security for whom?”
Millennials are sometimes stereotyped as the “pics or it didn’t happen” generation — folks who only go places so they can post selfies online to prove they were there. But a chance to strike a pose in the stacks probably isn’t what makes libraries more popular with Americans ages 18-35 than with any other group of …
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Puigdemont plans to go ahead with a new referendum on independence by September despite a ruling by Spain's Constitutional Court banning the vote. Manu Fernandez /Press Association. All rights reserved. It can sometimes be sensible to revisit oneself. Especially in this ever-changing and ever-deceiving world of ours. Just to remind ourselves, and our readers, that …
Read More “Catalonia revisited: farewell to great expectations?”
