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The explosion happened three blocks away, but the sound had become so familiar that I went back to sleep without even getting out of bed to check on my twins.
Chilean middle class has seen its fortunes becomes more precarious, with many families staying afloat only through borrowing.
Most Chinese farmers are still quite poor by western standards, or those of their city-mouse kin.
The more someone invests in a lie, the more painful it becomes to renounce.
The story of the ITN trip to Bosnia—and the bitter quarrel about its reporting that followed—is a cautionary tale about the destructive and deranging effects of ideological hubris.
Humeniuk’s essay lends implicit support to the notion that a Palestinian state will be modern, open, and peaceful, if not positively progressive, and not the bastion of fanaticism that exists in Israelis’ fearful imagination.
In other words, Syrian government propaganda is almost perfectly aligned with the arguments Blumenthal and Khalek have been making for years.
The least we should expect from Western Christians is that they refuse to become accomplices in our persecution.
Being able to improve the lives of the people was always seen as a critical element assuring the Imperial “mandate of heaven.”
Many of the most renowned symbols that unify Palestinians are connected to political revolutionaries.
China’s ability to make America’s biggest companies dance to its tune exposes woke capitalism as the sanctimonious scam that it is.
The total authoritarian control that Xi craves has been denied to him for the first time since he took office.
This silencing campaign presents itself as inclusive and therapeutic. In reality, it poses a significant threat to intellectual and academic freedom, yet one that seems perennially overlooked in the campus speech wars.
What the Rangers do they do on behalf of all of us—for every rhino loss is a global loss.