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Leaders in Glass Countries Shouldn’t Throw Stones
Ferguson, Eric Garner, and why the United States isn’t fit to be the world’s moral authority.By Stephen M. Walt**Stephen M. Walt is the Robert and Renée Belfer Professor of International Relations at...
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Obama and Hawaii: Note for a lecture, "E Pluribus Unum? What Keeps the United...
from:Michelle Obama has said “You can’t really understand Barack until you understand Hawaii.” Well, you can't really understand Hawaii until you understand aloha.image from
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Americans increasingly say race is the country’s most important issue: Note...
Washington PostBy Mark Berman December 19 For the first time in more than two decades, more than one in 10 Americans say that race is the most pressing issue facing the country, according to a new...
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The ethnic maps of America: "Note for a lecture, "E Pluribus Unum? What Keeps...
dailymail.coThe ethnic maps of America: Researchers reveal where those with African American, Latino, and European American heritage are most likely to liveResearchers analyzed the genomes of more than...
View ArticleTrenin on Ukraine
"You have a country that was essentially put together by the Soviets. You may count the history of Ukraine from the days of Kievan Rus', but the reality is that Ukraine that exists in its Soviet era...
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Мир мог быть другим: Уильям Буллит в попытках изменить ХХ век
Александр ЭткиндМир мог быть другим: Уильям Буллит в попытках изменить ХХ век (2014)Книги, Новинки, Диалог.Уильям Буллит был послом Соединенных Штатов в Советском Союзе и Франции. А еще подлинным...
View ArticleДействие санкций и падение цен на нефть во многом обезоруживают Кремль -...
Действие санкций и падение цен на нефть во многом обезоруживают Кремль - Снеговая [interview]
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Banned/Challenged Books (in the USA) By The Numbers
FromBanned Books By The Numbers (INFOGRAPHICS)The Huffington Post | By Maddie CrumEmailPosted: 09/22/2014 8:42 am EDT Updated: 09/22/2014 5:59 pm EDTShare7502Tweet1291795Comment161Banned Books Week,...
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The snackification of everything: Note for a lecture, "E Pluribus Unum? What...
DANIEL AKST, Los Angeles Timesimage from entrySymbols matter, which is why it's important to acknowledge that our truest national emblem isn't an eagle or a dollar sign or even a handgun, though each...
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The unbelievable rise of single motherhood in America over the last 50 years
By Emily Badger December 18 Flickr photo courtesy of user Arileu, under a Creative Commons license.Few institutions in America have evolved over the last 50 years quite like motherhood. More women are...
View ArticleA facebook message to a distinguished Russian scholar re racism in today's...
John Brown [to the scholar]. [M]y sense is that the sporadic (but regrettably increasing) "racial" violence occurring the U.S. today is due to the fact -- yes, I'd argue that it is a fact -- that the...
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Pope Francis's Xmas message to the Curia: Not exactly "loving" in a...
From a Facebook entry:Pope Francis: Christmas greetings to the CuriaPope Francis: Christmas greetings to CuriaJohn Brown An astounding "greeting.""Tough love" at its most acute. I was however struck by...
View ArticleHow To Spot An American In Paris: Note for a lecture, "E Pluribus Unum? What...
DECEMBER 23, 2014How To Spot An American In ParisKim Kappmeyer, thoughtcatalog.com1. How You Enter a StoreIt is considered very rude to enter and exit a store or a restaurant without saying “bonjour”...
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10 Sure-Fire Ways to Spot an American Tourist. Note for a lecture, "E...
http://blog.hostelbookers.com/travel/weird-and-wonderful/american-tourist/ . Posted by: SophieShare on stumbleuponBy Adria Saracino, a fashion blogger and stylist with The Emerald Closet, a...
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Russia Is Using the Past to Explain the Present
Remember the old saying in the USSR? "We never know what will happen yesterday" ...By Gleb Kuznetsov, Moscow TimesDec. 11 2014 18:10Last edited 18:11; via MB on FacebookIn his address to the Federal...
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Tough love re Ukraine ...
via SW on Facebook; fromThe Feudalization of Ukraine?Posted by: BALÁZS JARÁBIKTHURSDAY, DECEMBER 18, 2014РУССКИЙ1PRINT PAGELast month, when Ukrainians celebrated the first anniversary of the start of...
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Sony, The Interview and Hollywood Illusions of Creative Expression; or, since...
image fromFYI, my Facebook comments inspired by the below thought-provoking piece:If one wished to be conspirational -- allow the forbidden thought -- the whole episode could be seen as a Hollyweird...
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Fantasy Political Reforms -- Note for a lecture, "E Pluribus Unum? What Keeps...
From: 20 maps that never happenedby Matthew Yglesias on December 12, 2014Fantasy Political ReformsTimmy Hunter-KilmerFive TexasesAny Texan (ask my wife, or my former roommate, or Vox's own Kelsey...
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Moscow metro opens virtual library of Russian classical literature
Well, ok, we 'Merikans do quote Walt Whitman; his verse on victims of the Civil War is etched on the escalator walls of the Dupont Circle Station stationin downtown D.C. But the lines are unattributed...
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Presentation by Ambassador Robert R. Gosende on the U.S. Foreign Sevice and...
Ambassador Robert R. Gosende: PresentationPresentation at Kendal, Sleepy Hollow, December 8, 2014I believe that we agreed that I would speak this evening about the Foreign Service of the United States,...
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