Jul 27 2013
Why millennials are leaving the church By Rachel Held Evans, July 27th, 2013 08:33 AM ET At 32, I barely qualify as a millennial. I wrote my first essay with a pen and paper, but by the time I graduated from college, I owned a cell phone and used Google as a verb. I …
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Jul 26 2013
Friday, July 26, 2013 CE, at 3:00PM CST O all ye exorcizers come and exorcize now, and ye clergymen draw nigh and clerge, For I wish to be purged of an urge. It is an irksome urge, compounded of nettles and glue, and great, delicious, dripping irony (with apologies to the late, great Ogden Nash). …
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Jul 25 2013
Helen Thomas taught me that being liked isn’t everything By Courtney E Martin, 25 Jul 2013 14:03 It was supposed to be our big, bonding moment – the veteran White House correspondent and the young, plucky blogger unite on stage, join the mutual admiration club, and reassure the audience that the world is not …
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Jul 23 2013
The Betrayal of Helen Thomas By Barbara Lubin and Danny Muller, July 23, 2013 When the news spread through Washington this weekend that the unwavering, pioneering journalist Helen Thomas had died, there must have been a collective sigh of relief throughout the halls of Washington. News articles and obituaries are obligatorily mentioning her retirement …
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Jul 09 2013
The myth of the 1,400 year Sunni-Shia war By Murtaza Hussain, 09 Jul 2013 11:14 During the period of European rule over Rwanda, the Belgian colonial administrators of the territory accomplished an extraordinary feat in their subjugation of the local population – the deliberate manufacture of new ethnic divisions. By formulating ethnic categorisations based …
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Jul 07 2013
My life at Guantanamo By Moath al-Alwi, 07 Jul 2013 11:10 A month ago, the guards here at Guantanamo Bay gave me an orange jumpsuit. After years in white and brown, the colours of compliant prisoners, I am very proud to wear my new clothes. The colour orange is Guantanamo’s banner. Anyone who knows …
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Jul 06 2013
Wall Street Journal says Egypt needs a Pinochet – can it get away with that? By Martin Pengelly, Saturday 6 July 2013 09.09 EDT On Friday, the Wall Street Journal published an editorial entitled “After the Coup in Cairo”. Its final paragraph contained these words: Egyptians would be lucky if their new ruling generals …
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