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Iran Is Seen Advancing Nuclear Bid

Thu, 23 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By David E. Sanger, William J. Broad - May. 23 (Opinion) - Iran’s Nuclear Program Is Seen Making Progress in I.A.E.A. Report

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When America Stops Importing Energy

Wed, 22 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By By IAN BREMMER - May. 22 (Opinion) - Op-Ed Contributor: When America Stops Importing Energy

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Tell Me How This Ends

Wed, 22 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN - May. 22 (Opinion) - SANLIURFA, Turkey — I’ve been traveling to Yemen, Syria and Turkey to film a documentary on how environmental stresses contributed to the Arab awakening. As I looked back on the trip, it occurred to me that three of our main characters — the leaders of t

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Medicaid opposition underscores states' healthcare disparities

Sun, 19 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

Los Angeles Times - By Noam N. Levey, Washington Bureau - May. 19 (Comment) - Medicaid opposition underscores states' healthcare disparities

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New Audit Allegations Show Flawed Statistical Thinking

Sat, 18 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By By NATE SILVER - May. 18 (Opinion) - FiveThirtyEight: New Audit Allegations Show Flawed Statistical Thinking

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Climate Warnings, Growing Louder

Sat, 18 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By By THE EDITORIAL BOARD - May. 18 (Opinion) - Given new evidence on carbon pollution, President Obama should get moving on global warming.

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How Latin Culture Got More Gay

Fri, 17 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By By HÉCTOR CARRILLO - May. 17 (Opinion) - Op-Ed Contributor: How Latin Culture Got More Gay

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We need to talk about masculinity

Fri, 17 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

The Guardian - By Laurie Penny - May. 17 (Opinion) - The crisis facing men and boys cannot be solved by reviving the tired stereotypes that oppress and constrain them We need to talk about masculinity. Across a country torn by recession and struggling to adapt to social change, men and boys are feeling lost and powerless, unsure what the future holds and what role they might play in it. Most feel as if they're not allowed to question what it means to be a man today – or discuss what it might mean tomorrow. The Labour MP Diane Abbott, launching a new campaign this week, is not the first person to kick up a fuss about this "crisis of masculinity". In a speech to the thinktank Demos on Thursday she said that millions of young men are in distress, acting out violently or sinking into depression. Unfortunately, the only solution many in the audience could offer is not giving men and boys more power over their own lives, but restoring their traditional power over women, as "breadwinners" and "male providers". Nobody seems to have bothered to ask ...

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And on the Plus Side

Thu, 16 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By By GAIL COLLINS - May. 16 (Opinion) - Let’s try to come up with some positive thoughts about the recent political fortunes of the Obama White House: • Economy’s getting a little better. Deficit’s dropping. • Bill Clinton had a really terrible second term and look how well things turned out f

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The real Obama scandal: fighting illegal wars in Libya and Pakistan

Thu, 16 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

The Guardian - By Michael Cohen - May. 16 (Comment) - The AP, IRS and Benghazi controversies are political sideshows. Obama's use of illegal force abroad is true concern Washington DC appears to have reached peak hysteria this week. The confluence of not one, not two, but three potential scandals involving the White House has given practically every Beltway scribe a case of the vapors as they don their Woodward/Bernstein capes and doggedly uncover the truth behind the Obama Administration's lies. What's missing, however, is actual evidence of wrongdoing. The IRS scandal is certainly the most politically toxic, but it remains unclear that anyone from the Obama Administration knew what the IRS was doing or that the agency was even targeting conservative groups for partisan political reasons. The Department of Justice's subpoena of phone records from the Associated Press is far more troubling because it offers a glimpse into the prosecutorial zeal that has defined DoJ's investigation of leaks from within the Obama Administration. Finally, there ...

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'A Long Ride Toward a New China'

Wed, 15 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Stephen Maing - May. 15 (Opinion) - Op-Docs: ‘A Long Ride Toward a New China’

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How Baghdad Fuels Iraq's Sectarian Fire

Wed, 15 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By By SARAH LEAH WHITSON - May. 15 (Opinion) - Op-Ed Contributor: How Baghdad Fuels Iraq's Sectarian Fire

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The Coming GOP Civil War Over Climate Change

Wed, 15 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

National Journal - May. 15 (Opinion) -

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Climate change 'will make hundreds of millions homeless'

Sun, 12 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

The Guardian - By Robin McKie - May. 12 (Comment) - Carbon dioxide levels indicate rise in temperatures that could lead agriculture to fail on entire continents It is increasingly likely that hundreds of millions of people will be displaced from their homelands in the near future as a result of global warming. That is the stark warning of economist and climate change expert Lord Stern following the news last week that concentrations of carbon dioxide in our atmosphere had reached a level of 400 parts per million (ppm). Massive movements of people are likely to occur over the rest of the century because global temperatures are likely to rise to by up to 5C because carbon dioxide levels have risen unabated for 50 years, said Stern, who is head of the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change. "When temperatures rise to that level, we will have disrupted weather patterns and spreading deserts," he said. "Hundreds of millions of people will be forced to leave their homelands because their crops and animals will have died. The trouble will ...

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Climate change: swift political action can avert a carbon dioxide crisis

Sun, 12 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

The Guardian - May. 12 (Editorial) - Carbon dioxide levels have reached an all-time high. But there is some hope if governments take the figures seriously The news that concentrations of carbon dioxide in our atmosphere reached a level of 400 parts per million last week might not appear to have immediate significance. The level is only a couple of units higher than last year, after all. Yet the development has undoubted importance. With the realisation that carbon dioxide levels have achieved that symbolic 400ppm figure, it is now clear that two decades of warnings from scientists have fallen on deaf ears and that our leaders have failed completely to curtail rising outputs of greenhouse gases across the world. Indeed, they have allowed them to accelerate. In the 1960s, levels rose at 0.7ppm a year. Today, they rise at 2.1ppm, as more and more nations become industrialised and increase outputs from their factories and power plants. As a result, the most conservative of scientific calculations suggest Earth now faces a 50-50 ...

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China's Evolving 'Core Interests'

Sat, 11 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By The Editorial Board - May. 11 (Editorial) - Editorial: China’s Evolving ‘Core Interests’

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Pakistan's Tyrannical Majority

Sat, 11 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Manan Ahmed Asif - May. 11 (Opinion) - Op-Ed Contributor: Pakistan’s Tyrannical Majority

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Former Leader of Guatemala Is Guilty of Genocide Against Mayan Group

Sat, 11 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Elisabeth Malkin - May. 11 (Opinion) - The judge who sentenced former dictator Gen. Efraín Ríos Montt to 80 years in prison said the court was “convinced of the intent to destroy the Ixil ethnic group.”

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Palestinians chose a new president -- on reality TV

Fri, 10 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

Associated Press - By Mohammed Daraghmeh - May. 10 () - The Palestinians haven't elected a president since 2005, but now they are finally getting a chance to do so — virtually — thanks to a hit reality TV show.

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Stop the Plunder of Africa