Aug 17 2013
Everything was possible By Omar Robert Hamilton, Saturday, August 17, 2013 – 22:26 I sit, for the 12th hour now, alone and struggling for what to do. For the first time since I got on a plane for Egypt on January 29, 2011, I am at a loss. Worse days than today lie ahead of …
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Aug 14 2013
A nation unhinged: Dispatches from “the nightmare war” By Tom Gallagher, Tuesday, Aug 13, 2013 01:12 PM CDT We should make Nick Turse an honorary baby boomer for writing Kill Anything That Moves. A history of the Vietnam War that finds the My Lai massacre more the rule than the exception, this book is almost …
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Aug 12 2013
The Entire History of the World—Really, All of It—Distilled Into a Single Gorgeous Chart By Rebecca Onion, Monday, Aug. 12, 2013, at 11:40 AM This “Histomap,” created by John B. Sparks, was first printed by Rand McNally in 1931. (The David Rumsey Map Collection hosts a fully zoomable version here.) This giant, ambitious chart …
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Aug 11 2013
Confessions of a Christian Skeptic By Joe Boyd, 08/08/2013 11:52 am I grew up deeply entrenched in Evangelicalism. So much so, that I made it my career. I went to Bible College to become a pastor. And I worked in the church full-time for about ten years. I was good at drawing a crowd …
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Aug 11 2013
Holocaust facts: Where does the figure of 6 million victims come from? By Haaretz, Aug. 11, 2013 4:57 PM One of the most well-known, if not iconic, facts known about the Holocaust is the number of Jewish victims killed by Nazi Germany up through the end of World War II. Perhaps not surprisingly, it …
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Aug 10 2013
The biggest threat to America? The size of its own military budget By Michael Cohen, Friday 9 August 2013 09.30 EDT Dear America: I know you’ve got a lot on your mind these days. Work is a drag; the kids are still on summer vacation; the car is making an awful racket (it’s probably …
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Aug 09 2013
A Cold Current By Jesmyn Ward, August 7, 2013, 8:13 pm DeLisle, Miss. There are moments from childhood that attract heat in our memories, some for their sublime brilliance, some for their malignancy. The first time that I was treated differently because of my race is one such memory. As a child of the …
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