Opinion
Boston’s U.S.-Cuba games show beauty of sports
August 28, 2012Too often, sports is considered to be yet another venue that exacerbates divisiveness, exhorts nationalism and further inflames existing tensions.
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Romney part of Global Tax Dodging, Inc.
August 27, 2012Mitt Romney is a tax dodger. That's according to 950 pages of confidential financial documents about his offshore Cayman Island investments.
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The Mali war – the wages of sin
August 27, 2012The reports filtering out of Northern Mali are appalling: beatings and whippings for the slightest violations of Sharia law.
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Ryan and Akin serve notice of imminent threat to democracy
August 24, 2012Every inch of social progress secured in the course of struggle over the past several decades is subject to reversal in the event of a government takeover by the Republican Party.
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Raising taxes on the rich works for everyone
August 24, 2012Piketty and Saez joined with MIT's Stefanie Stantcheva on a brief article that helps explain why raising taxes on a nation's rich creates economies that work for everyone.
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