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Power has always corrupted, and the British state is not and never has been immunePower has always corrupted, and the British state is not and never has been immune. On Wednesday, the Guardian revealed how the man from Whitehall put the shredder to energetic use to...(more)
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Bipartisanship comes easily when Congress is helping the citizens of Russia. Could it do the same work for Americans?
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The growing taste for prescription opioids in the US is a concern. What is it about our way of life that necessitates such relief?We Americans really like to pop pills. The Associated Press has just reported that we're increasingly strung out on prescription opioids, with sales...(more)
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Arizona lawmakers think pregnancy starts before conception. The religious right needs to get the facts right on reproductionIt was those great American evangelical poets, the Insane Clown Posse, who asked us once to contemplate the following existential question: "Fucking magnets, how do they work?" But in...(more)
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Outrage at the death of Trayvon Martin is finally lifting the lid on the US's racist underbellyThe second world war had a civilising influence on Buford Posey, a white man raised in the Deep South during the Depression. "When I was coming up in Mississippi I...(more)
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Clooney's well-meaning activism for the Nuba mountain people is rooted in a political culture that does not care for nuanceWhat does one immediately associate with Sudan? Darfur, allegations of genocide, a president indicted by the international criminal court and a mistreated south seceding from the north...(more)
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In this sprawling legislation, what is missing that should be added? What is in the bill but should be eliminated?
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The Komen foundation’s decision to pull $600,000 in annual grants for cancer screenings and mammogram referrals from Planned Parenthood is callous pro-life politics as usual.
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The results of the latest study on global abortion are no surprise – the shock is policy-makers have ignored such data for decadesThe astounding thing about the global abortion debate is not that some people have deeply held views about what a pregnancy is and when...(more)
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If liberals care about middle-class salaries, public education and other state-funded services, they need to care about controlling health care costs as much as conservatives do.
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Five-year-old Sasha Cooper has enjoyed an early childhood divorced from the crippling expectation of how boys and girls ought to behaveYou could call it a bonfire of the vanities. Encourage Suri Cruise and Princess Tiaamii, daughter of Jordan, to bin the general contents of their make-up...(more)
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Kittler, who died this year, suggested we weren't masters of our technological domain, but rather that we were its pawnsThere's a section of Nessie the Mannerless Monster, Ted Hughes's poem for children, that unwittingly clinches many of the main theories about the role and function of...(more)
