Be Prepared
The latest Senate committee to investigate the media has set an ambitious goal: to study “the appropriate role of public policy in helping to ensure that the news media remain …
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The Names of Our Lives
Will the real Paul Martin please stand up
Read MoreAn Israeli’s Life
Author Gilad Grossman (centre) with his mother and brothers Amit (left) and Ari (right), in Gesher Haziv kibbutz. /Courtesy of Gilad Grossman herzliya, israel—Here I sit, in the heat and …
Read MoreMidnight in Moscow
Russian President Vladimir Putin in his home, Novo-Ogaryovo. / Photograph by Dmitry Lekay/Kommersant moscow—When he’s in Moscow, Russian President Vladimir Putin lives in a forested compound complete with stables and …
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Burma on the Brink
The military junta in Burma has agreed to discuss democracy, but the pace of reform is agonizingly slow
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Gore Redux
Gore Vidal is leaving his Italian villa to fight his biggest battle yet
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A Love Affair with Secrecy
The Access to Information Act was supposed to get government documents into the hands of Canadians. Instead, it has created a state in which there are often no documents to get.
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Fall Classic
Facts all come with points of view Facts don’t do what I want them to Facts just twist the truth around—Talking Heads, Crosseyed & Painless
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Rough Justice
Illegal diamonds are the prize. But death in the Amazon rainforest is the price, as Indians, Brazilian miners, and a mysterious third party fight over the richest deposit in South America.
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The Numbers Game
Larger, richer, more powerful than ever: that’s the forecast for the U.S. as its birth rate exceeds that of any other industrialized nation—and nearly doubles that of Canada
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