February 2012
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Capitol Vérité: Inside Immigration Policymaking |... →
Award-winning filmmakers Shari Robertson and Michael Camerini are the team behind the ambitious documentary project How Democracy Works Now: Twelve Stories, a series of films about the debate over comprehensive immigration reform in the United States. Between 2001 and 2007, they captured 1,400 hours of footage in Washington, DC and at various locations around the country, peering behind the...
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Hugh Gusterson: An Education in Occupation |... →
Hugh Gusterson, great as always.
h/t Lawyers, Guns, & Money
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Poland Leads Wave of Communist-Era Reckoning in... →
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The Way Greeks Live Now | NYT →
By many indicators, Greece is devolving into something unprecedented in modern Western experience. A quarter of all Greek companies have gone out of business since 2009, and half of all small businesses in the country say they are unable to meet payroll. The suicide rate increased by 40 percent in the first half of 2011. A barter economy has sprung up, as people try to work around a broken...
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Pentagon to Ease Restrictions on Women in Some... →
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Global Agenda Series Looks at Espionage in Digital... →
“Spies, Lies and Sneaky Guys: Espionage and Intelligence in the Digital Age” will be the theme of the University of Delaware’s spring Global Agenda speaker series as it explores new challenges and opportunities in the field of international intelligence.
The Global Agenda presentations are free and open to the public and will be held at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday evenings, beginning...
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Egypt to Prosecute Americans in NGO Probe | WaPo →
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Amanda Krauss: When Oral History Argues Back |... →