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Drugs, video games and mental health: what is and isn’t relevant to the gun control debate

The pro-gun lobby in the United States likes to say “guns don’t kill people; people kill people”. This is true, but irrelevant: the point is that people who want to kill other people find it much easier to do so when th...

by Richard Scott-Jones

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The United States-A 21st Century Empire?

There are no shortages of academics who refer to America as an imperial power. Noam Chomsky, for instant, has issued trenchant criticism of the US, overtly proclaiming that it is indeed an empire. Other authors such as Niall ...

by Simon Fraser

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WATCH: A Short History of the Highrise

The National Film board of Canada has collaborated with the The New York Times Archive Department to create four interactive short films about the history of the highrise and modern living. These great feats of engineering have...

by Nicky Armstrong

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Dropping Bombs then Dropping Aid – America’s Dirty Secret in Laos

When Laos is viewed from above, the number of craters appear to rival the face of the moon, but these were not made by natural causes. Instead they are the scars that bear testimony to the “secret” war waged by the American...

by Mimi Celeste Taylor

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“The Administration Does Not Support Blowing Up Planets”

A petition, started in November to secure funding and resources, and to begin the construction of a Death Star by 2016 has, funnily enough, been rejected. Petitions that receive over 25,000 signatures within 30 days automatri...

by Natasha Lipman

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Bigger is not always better

When President Barak Obama addressed US armed forces at Baghram AFB on May 2, he spoke to the Strategic Partnership Agreement that had just been signed. Regarding the withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan, Obama stated that ...

by Andrew Sklover

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Fourth of July Day of Action: #DreamsNotDebt

Last year, just before the deadline, a bipartisan deal was reached which prevented interest rates from doubling from 3.4% to 6.8% on federally subsidized student loans in the United States. This year however, another extension ...

by Kyle McCarthy

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Syria: The U.S. Response

What began in Syria with young schoolboys spraying anti-government graffiti on the walls of a school in March 2011 has erupted from peaceful protestation to civil war. In a country held sway by an authoritarian regime, Presiden...

by Virginia Winslow

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Snowden, the NSA, and Latin America: Beyond the headlines

If you were to read only the headlines of US news covering the controversy surrounding Edward Snowden and the NSA’s surveillance in Latin America over the last two weeks, it would be easy to think that Latin America was a ...

by Anita Chan

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Drugs, video games and mental health: what is and isn’t relevant to the gun control debate

The United States-A 21st Century Empire?

WATCH: A Short History of the Highrise

Dropping Bombs then Dropping Aid – America’s Dirty Secret in Laos

“The Administration Does Not Support Blowing Up Planets”

Bigger is not always better

Fourth of July Day of Action: #DreamsNotDebt

Syria: The U.S. Response

Snowden, the NSA, and Latin America: Beyond the headlines

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