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...founded in Oakland to defend against police brutality. Many minorities—especially black males—are raised to be completely submissive to police officers, not out of respect for authority, but for fear of their lives. Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates notes: “If you wonder why blacks seem particularly susceptible to ‘rumors’ and ‘conspiracy theories,’ you might take a look at a history in which the official story was a poor guide to anything that mattered much, and in which rumor sometimes verged...
...painted signboards marking the sites of massacres during Rwanda's 1994 genocide. Here, 532 were killed. There, 318. Here, "+/? 5,000." The word JENOSIDE is painted in scarlet, and after you've seen it--and the redness of the earth--a few times, it's hard not to wonder about the great flood of blood that bathed Rwanda when 800,000 people were slaughtered in three months. But there are other signs, signs of progress, indicating new hospitals and schools, and government-placed signs extolling a future of prosperity and public virtue: YES TO INVESTMENT. NO TO CORRUPTION. They...
...Foreign Minister who's now president of the International Crisis Group, has just published a book on R2P. If something proves difficult, "it doesn't mean you abandon it," he argues. Rather, you "reinforce and update" it. Initially, he says, that would mean sending more soldiers and money. Others wonder whether the U.N. is doing not too little but too much and is in danger of falling into the same trap as NATO in Afghanistan and the U.S. in Iraq: the more robust the mission, the harder it is to leave. Alex de Waal, program director at the Social Science...
...with unemployment soaring toward 25-year highs, housing prices plunging and the nation's biggest banks facing insolvency, it is difficult not to wonder, Is Summers - is anyone, really - up to this herculean set of tasks at this impossible moment? And if the responsibility must fall largely on the shoulders of one man, does it have to be a guy in an ill-fitting suit who has a reputation for occasionally putting his foot in his mouth? The one who speaks in a disembodied patter while his nail-bitten fingers fiddle with his constant liquid sidekick, a can of Diet...
...beginning to wonder if anyone reads basic economics anymore. It has been widely understood for centuries that government does not create wealth; it merely redistributes it. The stimulus plan can be summarized as follows: we are going to borrow a trillion dollars from foreigners and spend it on a mile-long list of pork-barrel projects that we don't immediately need (or else we would have found another way to pay for them) and hope this gets us out of the recession. Did I miss something? There is a growing consensus among historians and economists that World...