Roundup: Media's Take 
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SOURCE: TomDispatch
3-27-14
U.S. Military Averaging More Than a Mission a Day in Africa
by Nick Turse
Documents reveal blinding pace of ops in 2013, more of the same for 2014.
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SOURCE: The Atlantic
4-1-14
In Defense of Empire
by Robert D. Kaplan
It can ensure stability and protect minorities better than any other form of order. The case for a tempered American imperialism.
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SOURCE: TomDispatch
3-25-14
Invasion of the Data Snatchers
by Catherine Crump and Matthew Harwood
Big Data and the Internet of Things means the surveillance of everything.
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SOURCE: TomDispatch
3-19-14
Advice Too Secret to Ignore
by Tom Engelhardt
Col. Manners Answers Your Questions on CIA Practices, Proper Cyberwar Behavior, and Invasion Etiquette
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SOURCE: New York Times
3-16-14
Paul Ryan’s Irish Amnesia
by Timothy Egan
Talking the familiar, heartless language of hunger economics.
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SOURCE: TomDispatch
3-13-14
Washington’s Back-to-the-Future Military Policies in Africa
by Nick Turse
America’s new model for expeditionary warfare.
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SOURCE: The New Yorker
2-20-14
Will Ukraine Break Apart?
by Masha Lipman
In Ukraine’s two decades as an independent state, the prospect of disintegration has never looked so real.
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SOURCE: Wall Street Journal
2-14-14
China’s Failed Effort to Export Outrage Over Japan
by Ying Ma
Attempts to raise an outcry about Japanese behavior in World War II have been less than successful.
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SOURCE: New York Times
2-18-14
The Ebb and Flow of Executive Power
by Bruce Bartlett
Republicans berate Obama's strong presidency, but they forget the path was forged under Bush II.
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SOURCE: New York Times
2-19-14
Obama and His Library: Go Small
by Witold Rybczynski
A presidential library is a very big building, but does that mean that it should also be monumental?
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SOURCE: Chronicle of Higher Education
2-17-14
‘4 Years Is Enough’ and Other Reforms
by Leonard Cassuto
The AHA is doing the most creative work in the humanities on alternative-academic careers right now.
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SOURCE: BBC News
2-13-14
China and Japan: Seven Decades of Bitterness
by Mariko Oi
The BBC's Mariko Oi visited both countries with a Chinese journalist to find out why the wounds of World War Two refuse to heal.
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SOURCE: The Nation
2-8-14
North Carolina’s Moral Monday Movement Kicks Off 2014 With a Massive Rally in Raleigh
by Ari Berman
Tens of thousands of activists marched from Shaw to the North Carolina State Capitol, where they held an exuberant rally protesting the right-wing policies of the North Carolina government.
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SOURCE: New York TImes
2-5-14
The Unquiet Ghosts of Nazi Germany
by Timothy W. Ryback
"Generation War" sparks a new debate about Germany's Nazi past.
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SOURCE: New York Times
2-2-14
Loot No Longer
by Doreen Carvajal
French authorities continue to struggle to return looted art.
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SOURCE: New York Times
1-22-14
The Man Who Made Peace Impossible
by Ali Jarbawi
For Palestinians, there is nothing in Ariel Sharon's career worth celebrating.
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SOURCE: The New Republic
1-15-14
Was Harry Truman a Zionist?
by John B. Judis
Harry Truman's concerns about Israel and Palestine were prescient—and forgotten.
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SOURCE: The Guardian
1-15-14
For India's Sikhs Amritsar casts a long shadow
by Amit Chaudhuri
India's politics bears the scars of the 1984 Golden Temple massacre – whether or not Britain had a role.
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SOURCE: Washington Post
1-16-14
Our Politics May Be Polarized. But That’s Nothing New.
by David W. Brady and Hahrie Han
Political science provides an answer.
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SOURCE: The New Republic
1-8-14
LBJ's Mistake Was Promising to "Win" the War on Poverty
by Jonathan Cohn
How to measure whether or not the "war on poverty" worked.
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