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Guest post: Joseph Kony is not in Uganda (and other complicated things)
Click here to see photos of the evolution of the LRA. Thanks to an incredibly effective social media effort, #StopKony is trending on Twitter today. The campaign coincides with a new awareness-raising...
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Five people who are not in jail in Pakistan
Shakil Afridi, the Pakistani doctor who helped the CIA collect data that led to the killing of Osama bin Laden, was convicted of high treason today and sentenced to 33 years in prison. Given the...
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Why the Japan-China island dispute is an American problem
The dispute over the small island chain in the East China Sea known as Senkaku in Japanese and Diaoyu in Chinese heated up this week after the Japanese government announced it would buy the islands...
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Sorry, Bill Clinton. You can't be president of France or Ireland
In an interview with CNN's Piers Morgan, the 42nd president discusses some other countries where he might be able to run for president -- technically speaking, of course -- and also reveals that he's...
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Great moments in U.N. prop use
There are two schools of thought emerging about Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's bizarre stunt of drawing a literal "red line" through a cartoon bomb in this UNGA speech today. On the one...
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If you think Big Bird is breaking the bank, be glad you're not paying for...
One of Mitt Romney's biggest laugh lines in last night's debate was a promise to cut funding for PBS, essentially vowing to fire debate moderator Jim Lehrer of the PBS Newshour as well as America's...
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If FP nerds were 'the public': 15 questions for a more interesting debate
Tonight's presidential debate will be conducted in Town Hall format. Every election, we're promised that this will make the event more "unpredictable," but in reality, it means we're likely to get...
View Article8 crazy things Americans believe about foreign policy
This evening's town hall-style debate, we're told, will be different. An intimate setting. Direct interaction with the common voter. The potential for curve-ball questions. While audiences might not...
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Twitter advice for the Pope
The Vatican announced today that Pope XVI will begin tweeting under the handle @Pontifex. Though his first Tweet is not expected until Dec. 12, the English-language papal account already has over...
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Guns don't kill dictatorships, people do
As he's wont to do, Matt Drudge has kicked up a fuss today by plastering photos of Hitler and Stalin above the headline "White House Threatens 'Executive Orders' on Guns." FP contributor Michael...
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Even on their own terms, Israel’s plans don’t add up.
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View ArticleIt’s Debatable’s Greatest Hits
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View ArticleChina Is Gaslighting the Developing World
Beijing’s promises of equality are a guise for hegemony.
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