World
The New York Times describes an East German model city — and is fair!
November 6, 2013The author did not embroider what she saw or heard. The result did tend to make me angry, but not because of prejudice or dishonesty; it was because of the story she told.
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Nowadays it doesn’t take tanks to overrun Europe
November 5, 2013Because Germany has the biggest economy in the EU, and is at the center of a "core" of wealthy nations that also use the Euro - France, Austria, and the Netherlands - Berlin largely calls the...
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Visitors to Snowden and visitors to Berlin
November 5, 2013Three men flew from Berlin to Moscow, were taken in a car with tinted glass windows to a secret location - where they met Edward Snowden. The meeting was very interesting. So were the three visitors.
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Around world, migrants demand right to stay home
November 4, 2013The immigration debate in the United States usually treats the migration of people into this country as something unique. But it is not.
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Government shuts down, but anti-Cuba program keeps going
November 1, 2013While essential government services that help millions of ordinary people were shut down, Radio and TV Marti kept broadcasting.
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