Staff / TruthdigJun 20, 2006
Every year, 1.5 million Chinese women attempt to take their own lives--and 150,000 succeed. Experts say that 70% to 80% of the suicide attempts have to do with husband-wife issues; in a society of arranged marriages, women frequently have next to no power. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigMar 9, 2006
This incident--coming on the heels of the discovery of 20 bodies dumped in Baghdad--is the face of urban civil war on the model of the Battle of Algiers. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
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