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What Next for the African Union in 2012?

As we come ever closer to 2012, I thought I would examine Africa's recent struggles on its path to unity and a more prosperous region. Certainly, with 2011's cataclysmic changes taking place in North Africa, most of the African Union's attention has been heavily turned towards the Arab Spring and its aftermath. Nevertheless, the organisation has not been without its own crises to manage in the sub-Saharan region. ...

2. January 2012

Why Stevens’ Anti-Death-Penalty Argument Is Powerful

By Adam Cohen Wednesday, Dec. 01, 2010

Former Justice John Paul Stevens, who retired from the Supreme Court in June after turning 90, has come out swinging in the past few days against the death penalty. In an appearance on 60 Minutes this past Sunday and a New York Review of Books essay that is now online, Justice Stevens makes the case that capital punishment as it is now administered in the U.S. is hopelessly flawed — and unconstitutional. In so doing, he is pushing the death-penalty debate just where it needs to go. ...
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1. December 2010

California Election: Environmentalists Get Green
Environmentalists are great at visualizing catastrophe — just see An Inconvenient Truth — but ...
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3. November 2010

Obama in Command: The Rolling Stone Interview
We arrived at the southwest gate of the white house a little after one ...
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7. October 2010