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How the Case for Austerity Has Crumbled

The Alchemists: Three Central Bankers and a World on Fire by Neil Irwin Penguin, 430 pp., $29.95                            …
PUBLISHED: June 6, 2013
LENGTH: 10 minutes (2667 words)

Keys. Wallet. Mobile. Gun?

Matt Rainwaters It's the eleventh anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, and while President Obama is pausing in remembrance at the Pentagon, I am near the back of a sports shop a few miles north of my…
LENGTH: 3 minutes (918 words)

Afghan Women Face the Future

This is a personal story, and it’s hard to tell because nobody knows how it will end. I first went to Afghanistan in 2002, where I volunteered with two small nongovernmental organizations…
AUTHOR:Ann Jones
PUBLISHED: March 5, 2013
LENGTH: 4 minutes (1064 words)

Postcards: Life In a Colonia Called 'The Ranch'

The first thing you notice about Cuevitas is the smell: an aroma of smoke and ash left over from trash that may have been burned the day before, but lingering on the warm Texas air. The next thing is…
LENGTH: 10 minutes (2595 words)

We don't want our burqas back: women in Afghanistan on the Taliban's return

“How many women really make their voices heard? I can count them on my fingers”: Fawzia Koofi, MP for Badakhshan, who plans to stand as a presidential candidate in 2014. Photograph: Farzana Wahidy…
PUBLISHED: Jan. 13, 2013
LENGTH: 14 minutes (3619 words)

From Whence I Came

A white American goes to Cameroon in search of his past.Image courtesy of Martino via FlickrThis was where the thread first came into view, an old stone palace miles up a rutted dirt track, alone in…
LENGTH: 20 minutes (5029 words)

The modern US army: unfit for service?

Overweight. Unfit. Ex-con. Racist… meet the modern American army. Illustration by Sarah Plane for GNM imaging My journey into the dark underworld of the US military begins on a rainy Tuesday morning…
PUBLISHED: Aug. 31, 2012
LENGTH: 13 minutes (3319 words)

Totnes: the town that declared war on global capitalism

A poster advertising a meeting against the Costa shop. Photograph: SWNS.com It's a balmy Tuesday evening in Totnes, the small Devon town that sits just below the south-western tip of the M5. Outside…
PUBLISHED: Aug. 15, 2012
LENGTH: 9 minutes (2375 words)

Is democracy finally coming to Burma?

At around 10am one morning earlier this week, a dazed and haggard man in surprisingly clean blue convict's fatigues walked out of Insein jail on the outksirts of the Burmese city of Rangoon. Tang…
PUBLISHED: Jan. 5, 2012
LENGTH: 7 minutes (1918 words)
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