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Naomi Wolf: 'Neural wiring explained vaginal v clitoral orgasms. Not culture. Not Freud'

Naomi Wolf in New York. Photograph: Tom Pietrasik for the Guardian Naomi Wolf has been one of the world's most famous feminists for more than 20 years and she herself admits it is a very odd job.…
PUBLISHED: Sept. 2, 2012
LENGTH: 9 minutes (2432 words)

How Hungarian criminals built a slave trade in Ontario

Tamas Miko, sits in his small motel room somewhere in Ontario, hiding from the associates of the human trafficking ring in Hamilton, that he fell victim to upon his arrival in Canada. Glenn…
PUBLISHED: April 3, 2012
LENGTH: 2 minutes (648 words)

Portrait of a people in tense times

THE KIBBUTZNIKNAME: Sigal ShoshanyAGE: 45OCCUPATION: college administratorLIVES: Degania Alef kibbutz, GalileeFAMILY: married, four childrenRELIGIOUS IDENTITY: secularSigal Shoshany was born on…
PUBLISHED: March 11, 2012
LENGTH: 11 minutes (2795 words)

poor, black, and jailed under FBI 'entrapment' tactics

Imam Salahuddin Muhammad could hardly miss Shahed Hussain when he first appeared three years ago at his mosque in the dilapidated town of Newburgh, just 60 miles up the Hudson River from New…
PUBLISHED: Dec. 12, 2011
LENGTH: 8 minutes (2137 words)

Libya after Gaddafi: freed journalist tracks down his jailer

I remembered that Hatem was tall and wore spectacles and had a pudgy, smiling face that didn't seem to fit his profession. But I was not prepared for the warmth he showed. Meeting him again was…
PUBLISHED: Oct. 30, 2011
LENGTH: 9 minutes (2395 words)

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Harold Evans: 'Rupert Murdoch is the stiletto, a man of method, a cold-eyed manipulator'

There is a clear connecting thread between the events I describe in Good Times, Bad Times and the dramas that led so many years later to Rupert Murdoch's "most humble day of my life". I was…
PUBLISHED: Sept. 18, 2011
LENGTH: 26 minutes (6562 words)

Tensions rise as Latinos feel under siege in America's deep south

The mobile home that Nancy Lugo and her two children live in might not seem like much to many people.It sits off a dirt road, by a slow-moving creek, on the outskirts of the tiny Georgia town…
PUBLISHED: Aug. 21, 2011
LENGTH: 10 minutes (2657 words)

Summerhill school and the do-as-yer-like kids

Earlier this month, seven generations of past and present pupils gathered to celebrate the 90th anniversary of Summerhill, our progressive, controversial alma mater. The school was set up, in a…
PUBLISHED: Aug. 19, 2011
LENGTH: 9 minutes (2471 words)
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