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A/V Booth: Nobel Committee Secretary Explains Why Obama Won

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Arts and Culture: Capitalism Means Never Having to Say You’re Sorry

Reports: What Have We Done to Democracy?

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Reports: It Could Be the End of Our Democracy as We Know It

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Reports: Go to Pittsburgh, Young Man, and Defy Your Empire

Reports: Who Is Obama Playing Ball With?

Ear to the Ground: Afghan Election Dogged by Fraud Claims

Reports: Freedom From Fear—and the Second Amendment

Reports: Reality Is Its Own Caricature for U.S. in Afghanistan and Pakistan

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Ear to the Ground: Taliban Issues Threat Before Afghan Election

Reports: Nader Was Right: Liberals Are Going Nowhere With Obama

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Reports: A Coup for Lobbyists at the White House

A/V Booth: Obama’s Pen Pals

Arts and Culture: Frederic Raphael on Socrates

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Ear to the Ground: Confirmation Remarks Worth Revisiting

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Ear to the Ground: Obama to Seek to End Africa’s Conflicts

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Ear to the Ground: Iran Arrests Hundreds, Admits Vote Errors

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Reports: The Islamic Republic Is Not in Danger

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Ear to the Ground: Ahmadinejad Wins Dubious Election

Cartoons: The Lesser of Two Spuds

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Arts and Culture: Susie Linfield on How to Think About the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

Reports: Prop. 8 and the Misery of the Law

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Reports: What Will Obama Say in Cairo?

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Cartoons: Democracy

A/V Booth: Bill Maher’s California Elegy

Reports: Disclosure of ‘Secrets’ in the ’70s Didn’t Destroy the Nation

Arts and Culture: Eve Pell on America’s Culture of Punishment

Reports: News Flash: Populism Is Popular

Reports: Reagan and Nixon Greeted Despots, Too

Reports: Torturers Should Be Punished

Reports: Columbine Questions We Still Don’t Ponder

A/V Booth: The World’s Largest Democracy in Action

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Ear to the Ground: They Don’t Build Democracies Like They Used To

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Ear to the Ground: Shoe-Thrower Catches a Break

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Ear to the Ground: Friends In High-Tech Places

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Arts and Culture: Zachary Karabell on ‘The Case for Big Government’

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Reports: Avoiding Another Cold War

Ear to the Ground: No More Term Limits for Venezuela’s Chavez

Ear to the Ground: Tsvangirai to World: ‘Get Over’ Mugabe

Ear to the Ground: A New Day in Zimbabwe

Reports: Obama’s Afghan Trap

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Ear to the Ground: Pentagon Propaganda Is Booming

Reports: Produce the Note

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Ear to the Ground: Mugabe Learns How to Share ... Maybe

Arts and Culture: Mark Fischer on Copyright in the Digital Age

Ear to the Ground: Gates Changes Afghanistan Tune

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Arts and Culture: Brenda Wineapple on Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass

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A/V Booth: President Bush Signs Off

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Reports: Israeli Voices for Peace

Reports: Our Cuba Policy: A Failure at 50

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Ear to the Ground: Judge: Iraqi Shoeman Beaten

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Reports: A Tale of Two Nobel Nations

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Ear to the Ground: Poles Take Another Look at Jaruzelski

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Reports: A View From the South

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Cartoons: A Part of the Election

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A/V Booth: Murder, Spies & Voting Lies

Ear to the Ground: Obama Is Ready to Be Tested

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Ear to the Ground: Lose Your Home, Lose Your Vote

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Reports: Remembering 9/11 and Moving Forward

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Reports: Tyranny on Display at the Republican Convention

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Arts and Culture: Robert Christgau on America’s Secret Fundamentalists

Reports: Why We Were Falsely Arrested

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Ear to the Ground: Was Musharraf Helped Out the Door?

Ear to the Ground: Pakistani President Musharraf Resigns

Arts and Culture: Warren I. Cohen on China’s Charm Offensive

Reports: Cold War Spin Only Compounds Georgian Crisis

Reports: Don’t Cage Dissent

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Reports: A War of Self-Destruction

Reports: Who’s Paying for the Conventions?

Ear to the Ground: China to Allow ‘Protest Lite’

Reports: Bad Days for Newsrooms—and Democracy

Reports: Anywhere Becomes Everywhere

Reports: Colombia: Celebrate the Release, Not the Regime

Reports: Surviving the Fourth of July

Arts and Culture: Ruth Rosen on ‘The Populist Vision’

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