Search Results for: The Verge

The Double Game

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India has become the state that we tried to create in Pakistan. It is a rising economic star, militarily powerful and democratic, and it shares American interests. Pakistan, however, is one of the most anti-American countries in the world, and a covert sponsor of terrorism. Politically and economically, it verges on being a failed state. And, despite Pakistani avowals to the contrary, America’s worst enemy, Osama bin Laden, had been hiding there for years—in strikingly comfortable circumstances—before U.S. commandos finally tracked him down and killed him, on May 2nd.

Source: The New Yorker
Published: May 9, 2011
Length: 12 minutes (3,160 words)

The Atlantic: The Rise Of The New Global Elite

The Atlantic: The Rise Of The New Global Elite

A Death in Texas

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Profits, poverty, and immigration converge

Author: Tom Barry
Source: Boston Review
Published: Nov 1, 2009
Length: 33 minutes (8,361 words)

A Friendly Chat: Michael K, Web Entrepreneur, Blogger, Pottymouth

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Michael K runs and writes the website Dlisted, which gives a rundown on the day’s celebrity comings and goings with crude humor that often verges on the vulgar (though he disputes this point). “I think the boundaries change each day. Some days I’m like, okay you’re not going to make fun of children, and some days its like, you’re not going to make fun of Michelle Williams because of the whole Heath Ledger thing. But then here are some stories you have to do whether or not you can make them funny. But there are some stories that if I can’t find any humor in it, I don’t touch it.”

Source: The Awl
Published: Jul 17, 2009
Length: 8 minutes (2,158 words)

She Broke the G.O.P. and Now She Owns It

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Sarah Palin and Al Sharpton don’t ordinarily have much in common, but they achieved a rare harmonic convergence at Michael Jackson’s memorial service.

Author: Frank Rich
Published: Jul 11, 2009
Length: 6 minutes (1,553 words)