Roundup: Media's Take

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• SOURCE: TomDispatch
  3-27-14
  

  U.S. Military Averaging More Than a Mission a Day in Africa

  by Nick Turse

  Documents reveal blinding pace of ops in 2013, more of the same for 2014.

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  4-1-14
  

  In Defense of Empire

  by Robert D. Kaplan

  It can ensure stability and protect minorities better than any other form of order. The case for a tempered American imperialism.

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• SOURCE: TomDispatch
  3-25-14
  

  Invasion of the Data Snatchers

  by Catherine Crump and Matthew Harwood

  Big Data and the Internet of Things means the surveillance of everything.

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• SOURCE: TomDispatch
  3-19-14
  

  Advice Too Secret to Ignore

  by Tom Engelhardt

  Col. Manners Answers Your Questions on CIA Practices, Proper Cyberwar Behavior, and Invasion Etiquette

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  3-16-14
  

  Paul Ryan’s Irish Amnesia

  by Timothy Egan

  Talking the familiar, heartless language of hunger economics.

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• SOURCE: TomDispatch
  3-13-14
  

  Washington’s Back-to-the-Future Military Policies in Africa

  by Nick Turse

  America’s new model for expeditionary warfare.

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• SOURCE: The New Yorker
  2-20-14
  

  Will Ukraine Break Apart?

  by Masha Lipman

  In Ukraine’s two decades as an independent state, the prospect of disintegration has never looked so real.

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• SOURCE: Wall Street Journal
  2-14-14
  

  China’s Failed Effort to Export Outrage Over Japan

  by Ying Ma

  Attempts to raise an outcry about Japanese behavior in World War II have been less than successful.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  2-18-14
  

  The Ebb and Flow of Executive Power

  by Bruce Bartlett

  Republicans berate Obama's strong presidency, but they forget the path was forged under Bush II.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  2-19-14
  

  Obama and His Library: Go Small

  by Witold Rybczynski

  A presidential library is a very big building, but does that mean that it should also be monumental?

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• SOURCE: Chronicle of Higher Education
  2-17-14
  

  ‘4 Years Is Enough’ and Other Reforms

  by Leonard Cassuto

  The AHA is doing the most creative work in the humanities on alternative-academic careers right now.

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• SOURCE: BBC News
  2-13-14
  

  China and Japan: Seven Decades of Bitterness

  by Mariko Oi

  The BBC's Mariko Oi visited both countries with a Chinese journalist to find out why the wounds of World War Two refuse to heal.

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• SOURCE: The Nation
  2-8-14
  

  North Carolina’s Moral Monday Movement Kicks Off 2014 With a Massive Rally in Raleigh

  by Ari Berman

  Tens of thousands of activists marched from Shaw to the North Carolina State Capitol, where they held an exuberant rally protesting the right-wing policies of the North Carolina government.

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• SOURCE: New York TImes
  2-5-14
  

  The Unquiet Ghosts of Nazi Germany

  by Timothy W. Ryback

  "Generation War" sparks a new debate about Germany's Nazi past.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  2-2-14
  

  Loot No Longer

  by Doreen Carvajal

  French authorities continue to struggle to return looted art.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  1-22-14
  

  The Man Who Made Peace Impossible

  by Ali Jarbawi

  For Palestinians, there is nothing in Ariel Sharon's career worth celebrating.

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• SOURCE: The New Republic
  1-15-14
  

  Was Harry Truman a Zionist?

  by John B. Judis

  Harry Truman's concerns about Israel and Palestine were prescient—and forgotten.

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  1-15-14
  

  For India's Sikhs Amritsar casts a long shadow

  by Amit Chaudhuri

  India's politics bears the scars of the 1984 Golden Temple massacre – whether or not Britain had a role.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  1-16-14
  

  Our Politics May Be Polarized. But That’s Nothing New.

  by David W. Brady and Hahrie Han

  Political science provides an answer.

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• SOURCE: The New Republic
  1-8-14
  

  LBJ's Mistake Was Promising to "Win" the War on Poverty

  by Jonathan Cohn

  How to measure whether or not the "war on poverty" worked.