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Battle Cries and Lullabies: Women in Conflict
It’s hard to know which side to take. UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, who has criticized both Gaza and Israel, told reporters, “in the name of humanity, the violence must stop.” After Hamas...
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Mail Order Misery
In keeping with last week’s theme of all things Slavic and creepy, I decided to turn my focus on mail order brides after repeatedly seeing ads for the totally reputable AnastasiaDate.com. One of the...
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From Russia with Love
What do you think is the most pressing issue facing Russia right now? The high rate of alcoholism, which may be responsible for 50 percent of deaths for people between the ages of 15 to 54? The...
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O Hai NSA
Responses to reports of NSA surveillance of Americans runs the gamut from outraged to blasé. I fall more on the outraged side, with the caveat that such wide-scale snooping isn’t particularly...
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“Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves”: Ethnicity as Entertainment
The bad things about having chronic migraines are… well… too numerous to list here. The good thing about having chronic migraines is lots of time to watch television, since you are in too much pain to...
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I Like Teaching
I like teaching. It’s one of the several weird things I get to do on a regular basis. First there’s my grad school course at Georgetown (totally invented from my head!), then there’s there are the...
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Putin Comes For Your Daughters
First off, ewwwww. We may be late to the internet party with this, but have you seen any of the Russian advertisements where Vladmir Putin is put up as some kind of virginity-taking stud-for-hire?...
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War as Marketing
Election cycles always rev up the rhetorical engines, but nothing matches war when it comes to attempts at shaping public perception. Anyone who lived through the march to Iraq can attest to the impact...
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Iran to Send US Toy Drone
You can’t say the ruling Mullahs don’t have a sense of humor. In response to US demands that Iran return a RQ-170 Sentinel stealth drone that went down over the eastern part of Iran, the country’s...
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Overbroad and Undercooked: Dangerous Bills in Congress
One of the reasons I haven’t been posting much is that I’m spending every spare bit of my energy trying to make sure a pair of ill-conceived pieces of legislation do not become law (at least in their...
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