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Week of August 29, 2010

• Experts see trouble ahead for developed world. Dan Perry, AP.
• Is believing in God evolutionarily advantageous? Aliz Spiegel, NPR.
• God did not create the universe, says Hawking. Michael Holden, Reuters.
• Is the Tea Party becoming the new Grand Old Party? Liz Sidoti, AP.
• The billionaires bankrolling the Tea Party. Frank Rich, New York Times.
• We owe the troops an exit. Bob Herbert, New York Times.
• In South Korea, a model for Iraq. Paul Wolfowitz, New York Times.
• Poll: Most Republicans think Obama “sympathizes” with Islamist goals. Holly Bailey, Yahoo News.
• US wasted billions in rebuilding Iraq. Kim Gamel, AP.
• Glenn Beck vs. Christ the Liberator. Rev. James Martin, SJ. Huffington Post.

Week of August 22, 2010

• Afghan militants in US uniforms storm 2 NATO bases. Robert H Reid, AP.
• Do we need a tax bracket for the super-rich? Nathaniel Cahners Hindman, Huffington Post.
• Migrants turn to the sea to enter US illegally. Elliott Spagat, AP.
• Bikini-clad strippers protest church in rural Ohio. Jeannie Nuss, AP.
• Fears Taliban expanding in Afghan north, west. Robert H Reid, AP.
• Key Karzai aide in corruption inquiry is linked to CIA. Dexter Filkins, New York Times.
• Poll: public doubts Islam more prone to violence. AP.
• The conservative counter-revolution. Martin Wolf, Financial Times.
• Some 200 women gang-raped over 4 days near Congo UN base. Michelle Faul, AP.
• The consensus in favor of Swedish thinking. Ralph Atkins, Financial Times.
• Iran inaugurates nation’s first unmanned bomber. Nasser Karimi, AP.

Week of August 15, 2010

• Crime (sex) and punishment (stoning). Robert F Worth, New York Times.
• Too long ignored. Bob Herbert, New York Times.
• Obama a Muslim! Lincoln a Catholic! FDR a Jew! Why Americans don’t like their President’s God. Bruce Feiler, Huffington Post.
• US matches Indian call center costs. James Lamont, Financial Times.
• The world population continues to grow at an alarming rate. Yahoo News.
• On Facebook: Israeli soldier posed with bound Arab. Diaa Hadid, AP.
• Media failing to ask tough questions on Afghanistan war… again. Derrick Crowe, Huffington Post.
• Japan, checking on its oldest, finds many gone. Martin Fackler, New York Times.
• Secret assault on terrorism widens on two continents. Scott Shane, New York Times.
• Teen sex not always bad for school performance. Alicia Chang, AP.

Week of August 8, 2010

• Algebra for dummies: mathematical “proof” of the inferiority of homosexuals. Bill Black, New Deal 2.0
• Bad for the Jews. Paul Krugman, New York Times.
• Zero tolerance and Cordoba House. Basharat Peer, Financial Times.
• How the Cheonan really sank–and what happens to the Koreas now? Bill Powell, Time.
• US Muslims prep for Islamic holiday–around 9/11. Rachel Zoll, AP.
• Study looks at tax cut lapse for the rich. Jackie Calms, New York Times.
• The joke about intergenerational equity. Dean Baker, Huffington Post.
• Richard Dawkins likens burqas to trash bags. Curtis M Wong, Huffington Post.
• Taliban execute pregnant woman. Huffington Post.
• Israel cannot be both Jewish and democratic. Ahmed Moor, Huffington Post.
• US economy is increasingly tied to the rich. Robert Frank, Wall Street Journal.

Week of August 1, 2010

• Putting our brains on hold. Bob Herbert, New York Times.
• Across nation, mosque projects meet opposition. Laurie Goodstein, New York Times.
• Sectarian clashes surge in a city in Pakistan’s heartland. Salman Masood, New York Times.
• Congregations gone wild. G Jeffrey MacDonald, New York Times.
• Steal this movie [on Israel and Palestine]. Thomas Friedman, New York Times.
• Chinese missile could shift Pacific power balance. Eric Talmadge, AP.
• Israel: a not very secular shift. Tobias Buck, Financial Times.
• Court rejects same-sex marriage ban in California. Jesse McKinley, New York Times.
• Flare-up over tree accents Israel-Lebanon tension. Mark Lavie, AP.
• Divide Afghanistan at your peril. Ahmed Rashid, Financial Times.

Week of July 25, 2010

• The great (double) game. Thomas Friedman, New York Times.
• Catholic patriarch blasts Israel for allowing gay parade. Michele Chabin, Religion News Service.
• Four deformations of the apocalypse. David Stockman, New York Times.
• The end of (military) history? The United States, Israel, and the failure of the western way of war. Andrew Bacevich, Huffington Post.
• Study: same-sex couples can thrive as adoptive parents. Daniel de Vise, Washington Post.
• Somali lessons for Afghanistan. Gideon Rachman, Financial Times.

Week of July 18, 2010

• America must give the south to the Taliban. Robert Blackwill, Financial Times.
• The gray and the brown: the generation mismatch. Ronald Brownstein, National Journal.
• The Big Mac Index, The Economist.
• Is the Tea Party unbiblical? Alfredo Garcia, Religion News Service.
• Israel puts off crisis over conversion law. Ethan Bronner, New York Times.
• The moral naturalists. David Brooks, New York Times.
• Embracing Israel, justice and peace. Rabbi Sid Schwarz, Huffington Post.
• North Korea threatens “physical response” to US moves. Andrew Quinn, Reuters.
• Anti-mosque protests on the rise, say Muslim advocates. Liz Goodwin, Yahoo News.
• Lesbian gets $35,000 settlement over canceled prom. Shelia Byrd, AP.
• Today’s Keynesians have learnt nothing. Niall Ferguson, FT.

Week of July 11, 2010

• Where has all the greatness gone? The Economist.
• 10 Most horrifying, absurd things in the GOP state platforms. Tana Ganeva, Alternet.
• Spanish parliament to consider banning Islamic veils in public. Harold Heckle, AP.
• Rethink Afghanistan because nation building is not working and we’re not winning. Nicholas Graham, Huffington Post.
• Man with neo-Nazi ties leading patrols in Arizona. Michelle Price, AP.
• Afghans to form local forces to fight Taliban. Alyssa J Rubin, New York Times.
• Economics behaving badly. George Loewenstein, New York Times.
• SEC settling its complaints with Goldman. Sewell Chan, New York Times.
• Supreme Court gun decision doesn’t mean domestic violence offenders can own handguns. Sophia Tareen, Huffington Post.
• Al-Shabab leader threatens more Ugandan attacks. Mohamed Olan Hassan, AP.
• Vatican: ordination of women a “grave crime.” Nicole Winfield, AP.
• Russian exorcism tragedy: 4-year-old boy dies during ritual. Huffington Post.
• Sarah Palin in 2012? Why she’s for real. Mark Halperin, Time.
• Federal Reserve: continued high unemployment threatens Fed policy of pursuing maximum employment. Shahien Nasiripour, Huffington Post.
• Argentine senate considers same-sex marriage law. Bridget Huber, AP.
• The class war we need. Ross Douthat, New York Times.
• Veiled threats? Martha Nussbaum, New York Times.

Week of July 4, 2010

• Is there a God or is there nothingness? New scientific paradigm. Robert Lanza, Huffington Post.
• Presbyterians: end Israel aid over settlements. Patrick Condon, AP.
• Pakistan suicide bombing death toll jumps to 102. Riaz Khan, AP.
• How can a nation that could soon be a nuclear power still legally stone women to death for adultery? Richard Pendlebury, Daily Mail.
• Income gap between rich and poor is highest in decades, data show. Laura Bassett, Huffington Post.
• Bill Kristol must resign. Ann Coulter, World Net Daily.
• Companies brace for end of cheap made-in-China era. Elaine Kurtenbach, AP.
• Federal gay marriage ban is ruled unconstitutional. Denise Lavoie, AP.
• Iran launches holy war on haircuts. Lara Setrakian, ABC News.
• Tax-exempt funds aiding West Bank Settlements. Jim Rutenberg, New York Times.
• Sakineh Mohammadie Ashtiani, Iran mother, could be stoned to death at any moment. Nicholas Sabloff, Huffington Post.

Week of June 27, 2010

• Illinois stops paying its bills, but can’t stop digging hole. Michael Powell, New York Times.
• Rise of the Religious Left. Charles Blow, New York Times.
• A voice in Egypt for an Arab age of reason. Michael Slackman, New York Times.
• As oil industry fights a tax, it reaps billions from subsidies. David Kocieniewski, New York Times.
• Myths of austerity. Paul Krugman, New York Times.
• Michael Steele says Afghanistan was “war of Obama’s choosing,” not something the US “wanted to engage in.” Nick Wing, Huffington Post.
• 21 killed in massive Mexican gang shootout near US border. AP.
• The Asian century calls for a rethink on growth. Kevin Brown, Financial Times.
• The Catholic church: Popeshuffle. The Economist.
• Spiritually bankrupt. Dan Rather, Huffington Post.
• Atheist billboard defaced on North Carolina’s Billy Graham Parkway. Yahoo News.
• The third depression. Paul Krugman, New York Times.
• The only way out of Afghanistan. Ross Douthat, New York Times.
• Hard truths about Afghanistan. Taylor Marsh.

Week of June 20, 2010

• Consciousness and the end of the war between science and religion. Deepak Chopra, Huffington Post.
• Against the super-asinine, the gods themselves contend in vain. Paul Krugman, New York Times.
• It is time to rethink the west’s Afghan strategy. Ahmed Rashid, Financial Times.
• Sharron Angle’s fringe third party sponsored virulently anti-gay flier in the ’90s. Justin Elliott, Talking Points Memo.
• US indirectly funding Afghan warlords: House report. Joanne Allen, Reuters.
• Montreal mother charged in “crime of honor.” CBC News.
• Saudi crucifies murderer. AFP
• What Israelis really think should be done about Gaza. Karl Vick, Time.
• New Jersey battles over tax on millionaires. John Hurdle, Reuters.
• Canada’s economy is suddenly the envy of the world. Rob Gillies, AP.
• Countries with the most millionaires 2010. Vanessa Wong, Business Week.

Week of June 13, 2010

• Global organized crime  becoming new superpower: UN. Louis Charbonneau, Reuters.
• Ultra-orthodox Jews protest school ruling. AP.
• UN says 400,000 uprooted in Kyrgyzstan. Sasha Merkushev, AP.
• At home with Alvin Greene: will the carnival act get serious? Michael Scherer, Time.
• Letter from Istanbul. Thomas Friedman, New York Times.
• State of denial: Reactions to a modest plan to increase the retirement age show how hard reform is in France. The Economist.
• UN urges Kyrgyzstan to stamp out ethnic bloodletting. Alexei Anishchuk, Reuters.
• Obama’s fool’s gold in Afghanistan. Jacob Heilbrunn, Huffington Post.
• Why we are moving toward a recessionary era, and why Keynes is being exhumed. Robert Reich.
• A decade later, human genome project yields few new cures. Nicholas Wade, New York Times.
• US identifies vast riches of minerals in Afghanistan. James Risen, New York Times.
• The year of the (pro-life) woman. Ramesh Pnnuru, New York Times.
• New Theory for life’s first energy source. Zoe Macintosh, Live Science.

Week of June 6, 2010

• To save Africa, reject its nations. Pierre Englebert, New York Times
• Karzai is said to doubt West can defeat Taliban. Dexter Filkins, New York Times.
• Studies show Jews’ genetic similarity. Nicholas Wade, New York Times.
• The Courage to Leave. Bob Herbert, New York Times.
• Ethnic riots sweep Kyrgyzstan, government begs for help. Sasha Merkushev, AP.
• Schumer says it “makes sense” to “strangle [Gaza] economically” until it votes the way Israel wants. Zaid Jilani, Think Progress.
• Report: China, Cuba more peaceful than US. AP.
• Stephen Hawking on religion: “science will win.” Nicholas Graham, Huffington Post.
• Sharon Angle: Nevada candidate already providing treasure chest of goodies for Harry Reid. Sam Stein, Huffington Post.
• Liberty endures in two-system China. Gideon Rachman, Financial Times.
• 10 foreign troops killed on deadly Afghan day. Rohan Sullivan, AP.
• Turkey is making a play for regional power. Josef Joffe, Financial Times.
• South Korean leader urges peace with North Korea. William Foreman, AP.

Week of May 30, 2010

• Houston: model city. Joel Kotkin, Forbes.
• Long-term unemployment now 46 percent of unemployed, highest percentage on record. Jeannine Aversa, Huffington Post.
• Lessons to be learnt from Kazakhstan. Gillian Tett, Financial Times.
• The Palestinians cannot be hammered into submission. Philip Stephens, Financial Times.
• Did 2004 Olympics spark Greek financial crisis? Derek Gatopoulos, AP.
• Afghan child brides escape marriage, but not lashes. Rod Nordland, New York Times.
• Why is the Obama administration siding with the Vatican? Christopher Hitchens, Slate.
• Eurozone: state of the union. Ralph Atkins, Financial Times (may require free subscription).
• At least 10 are killed as Israel halts flotilla with Gaza aid. Isabel Kershner, New York Times.

Week of May 23, 2010

• Indonesian authorities distribute long skirts as ban on revealing women’s clothing takes effect. Dallas Morning News.
• House votes to allow repeal of “don’t ask, don’t tell” law. David M Herszenhorn, New York Times.
• Fighting rages in eastern Afghanistan. Amir Shah, AP.
• A blame game at globalization’s unraveling. Harold James, Financial Times (may require free subscription)
• Two theories of change. David Brooks, New York Times.
• Europe’s deflation torture is a gift to the far-left. Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, Telegraph
• Ask Rand Paul what he would cut. Chris Weigant, Huffington Post.
• Jamaica declares emergency in capital after attacks. Horace Helps, Reuters.
• Two Koreas snarl at each other. Jack Kim, Reuters.
• The inept financial reform bill. William M Isaac, Forbes.
• Kiss your middle cl…ass goodbye? Les Leopold, Huffington Post.
• Crime rates down for third year, despite recession. Pete Yost, AP.
• The “Randslide” and its discontents. Frank Rich, New York Times.
• Europeans fear crisis threatens liberal benefits. Steven Erlanger, New York Times.

Week of May 16, 2010

• Astronomer Copernicus reburied as hero in Poland. Vanessa Gera, AP.
• A Nigerian witch-hunter defends herself. Mark Oppenheimer, New York Times.
• Senate passes financial overhaul bill. David M Herszenhorn.
• Specter loses in Pennsylvania, Paul wins in Kentucky. David Espo, AP.

Week of May 9, 2010

• Bangkok descends from bustling city to war zone. Martin Petty, Reuters.
• Greece, debt and a lesson for the US. Leon Hardt, New York Times.
• Afghan war costs now outpace Iraq’s. Richard Wolf, USA Today.
• Britain’s David Cameron becomes PM. David Stringer, AP.
• At least 99 killed in attacks across Iraq. Saad Abdul-Kadir, AP.
• America has good reason to worry about Greece. Clive Crook, FT (may require free subscription)
• Suburbs losing young whites to cities. Hope Yen, Huffington Post.

Week of May 2, 2010

• Meet the unemployable man. David Wessel, Wall Street Journal.
• Older, unmarried, educated moms on rise. Leanne Italie, AP.
• Riots erupt in Athens, 3 bank workers killed. Derek Gatopolous, AP.
• Must large capital inflows always end in crisis? Martin Wolf, Financial Times.
• Why Africa is religious. Leo Igwe, Lusaka Times.
• Parents don’t think own teens are having sex. Jeanna Bryner, Live Science.
• Europe’s choice is to integrate or disintegrate. Wolfgang Muchau, Financial Times (may require free subscription)
• Narcos, No’s and Nafta. Thomas Friedman, New York Times.

Week of April 25, 2010

• 5 terrifying parallels between what’s going on now and the Great Depression. Megan McArdle, Business Insider.
• Thai standoff may worsen to civil war: crisis group. Bill Tarrant, Reuters.
• Economics: How to cure a sick discipline. Ian Fletcher, Huffington Post.
• British judge: Christian beliefs have no legal standing. Al Webb, Religion News Service.
• It’s as if the more Japan’s ancient printing press keeps churning, the more prices keep deflating. Vincent Fernando, Business Insider.
• Illegal immigrants plan to leave over Arizona law. Amanda Lee Myers, AP.
• UK foreign policy: shrunken ambitions. Philip Stephens, Financial Times (may require free subscription)
• Arizona immigration law divides Republicans and conservatives. Liz Goodwin, Yahoo News.
• Why should you be freaked out about Greece? Remember, the Great Depression had two parts. Megan McArdle, Business Insider.
• Separate Truths: It is misleading–and dangerous–to think that religions are different paths to the same wisdom. Stephen Prothero, Boston Globe.
• Why can’t women keep up with men? Try the curse of the good girl. Rachel Simmons, Huffington Post.
• US says no G8 split with Canada over abortion. Richard Woodbury, Reuters.
• Debt ratings are lowered for Portugal and Greece. Jack Ewing, New York Times.
• Central Asia: Tinderbox of trouble. Isabel Gorst, Financial Times (may require free subscription)
• Young Lebanese demonstrate for secularism in Beirut. Natalia Antelava, BBC.
• Christianity must adapt: Why McLaren has the future of the faith in his palms. Alex Wilhelm, Huffington Post.
• New Arizona law forcing hard choices on migrants. Tim Gaynor, Reuters.
• US Fiscal Policy: Unless we ra
• ise taxes or cut spending, we’re screwed. Henry Blodget, Business Insider.
• The importance of getting Wall Street out of Washington, and Washington out of Wall Street. Robert Reich.
• Who cares if Iran goes nuclear? Michael Hughes, Huffington Post.

Week of April 18, 2010

• The case against the VAT. Bruce Bartlett, Forbes.
• What Evangelicals and atheists have in common. Skye Jethani, Huffington Post.
• The sickening abuse of power at the heart of Wall Street. Simon Johnson, Huffington Post.
• Most French want burqa law, but not total ban. Reuters
• US’s toughest immigration law is signed in Arizona. Randal C. Archibold, New York Times.
• Bombs kill 64 in Iraq after al Qaeda deaths. Muhanad Mohammed, Reuters.
• Legal skirmish colors national day of prayer. Adelle M Banks, Religion News Service.
• Greek workers strike, challenge EU/ IMF talks. Renee Maltezou, Reuters.
• Faith-based treatment ordered for Christian cult mother who killed her son. The Freethinker
• Ten US cities in free fall. Francesca Levy, Forbes.
• Army considers rescinding invitation to evangelist. Dan Elliott, AP.
• Greek debt woes erase jobs, stoke social discontent. Harry Papachristou, Reuters.
• Begging for security in Pakistan. Taha Gaya, Huffington Post
• Saudi Arabia announces nuclear plant, and it could have huge consequences for US-Iran relations. Gregory White, Business Insider
• Church pedophilia scandal grows in Latin America. Tales Azzoni, AP.
• Faith leaders criticize Arizona “anti-immigrant” bill. Adelle M Banks, Religion News Service.
• Tea Party: party of moochers. Scott Janssen, Huffington Post.
• Non-government workers of the world unite! Bernie McSherry, Forbes.
• Are evolution and religion compatible? Kevin Dixon, Humanist Life.
• Immortality isn’t unethical. Alexander Chisholm, Guardian UK.
• The religious lobby and women’s rights. Rahila Gupta, Open Democracy
• Let the Koreans take care of the Koreas. Doug Bandow, Huffington Post
• Actually, Wealthy Americans Pay A Larger Share of Federal Taxes Than Ever Before. Vincent Fernando, Business Insider

Week of April 11, 2010