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Human Rights for All – Even Thatcher and Bin Laden

Since news broke about the death of Britain’s former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, celebrations have en widespread on Facebook, Twitter, blogs and in real life. Similar scenes were played out in 2011 when Osama Bin Laden ...

by Boel Marcks von Würtemberg

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Was Violent Crime Reduced Unintentionally?

Crime, particularly in its most violent form, is perhaps the most political of topics. Few issues can spark more lively debates than policing and imprisonment, punishment and rehabilitation. At any given election all parties wi...

by Daniel Cavanillas

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Obama in Israel: A Setback for Palestinian Aspirations

President Obama’s visit to Israel and to Palestine (the West Bank occupied territory), hailed in Washington as a turning point in American-Israeli relations, did not have the same resonance with Palestinians. In fact, it ...

by Nadim Souss

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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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WATCH: Dennis Rodman says North Korea is “not so bad”

In Feburary 2013 the flamboyant “Worm” (ex-hall of fame professional basketball player Dennis Rodman) visited North Korea with Vice Media with the aim of hosting a basketball exhibition, stating on his first visit “I ...

by Ozlem Unat

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News Of The Latest McDonald’s Closure In Russia “Devastates” Obama

The Russian Internet has a rich tradition of producing fictional accounts of the lives of powerful politicians. The most famous and accomplished author in this genre is undoubtedly Maksim Kononenko, the mind behind Vladimir.Vl...

by Kevin Rothrock

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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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Guns: The New Socio-Economic Divide in America?

With the ongoing debate surrounding gun control permeating the American public sphere since the tragic Newton, Conneticut shooting in December, the National Rifle Association (NRA) recently fired back with a highly propagan...

by Urban Times

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Gun Control: Don’t let a little thing called facts get in the way

At the height of the gun control debate in the United States earlier this year, the middle-sized country of Australia was getting a lot more mentions than was normal. I happened to find myself in the middle of this peculiar si...

by Trudy McIntosh

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Human Rights for All – Even Thatcher and Bin Laden

Was Violent Crime Reduced Unintentionally?

Obama in Israel: A Setback for Palestinian Aspirations

“The Administration Does Not Support Blowing Up Planets”

WATCH: Dennis Rodman says North Korea is “not so bad”

News Of The Latest McDonald’s Closure In Russia “Devastates” Obama

WATCH: A Short History of the Highrise

Guns: The New Socio-Economic Divide in America?

Gun Control: Don’t let a little thing called facts get in the way

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