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Israel: Stop paying for subversive teachings
feature The Haredim sponge off the rest of us, benefiting from huge state handouts as a reward for helping to keep the right-wing Likud party in power, said Nehemia Shtrasler at Ha’aretz.
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South Africa: A painting of the president’s privates
feature Few people knew about Brett Murray’s painting The Spear until President Zuma’s party issued a denunciation.
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Russia: Back to Putin’s crony capitalism
feature With Vladimir Putin back in the presidential office, it’s party time for his pals.
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Turkey: Gingrich’s odd embrace of a secularist
feature The answer can only be that Gingrich favors secularism not for Christians but for Muslims, as a bulwark against what he sees as “creeping sharia,” said Mustafa Akyol at Hürriyet.
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Russia: The children can’t take it anymore
feature The country has long had one of the world’s highest teen suicide rates, and in the past decade it’s gotten worse, said Alexander Tretyakov at Transitions Online.
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South Africa: Turning Mandela into the ‘mandie’
feature The South African government announced that the country's new banknotes will feature the face of Nelson Mandela, said Chris Roper at the Mail & Guardian.
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Japan: Limping along, one year after the tsunami
feature The people are doing their best. “If only their politicians and bureaucrats were not so incompetent.”
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Kenya: Still wounded from the last election
feature But today, more than four years later, and despite vast sums spent on resettlement, many are still living in refugee camps, said an editorial at the Daily Nation.
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Israel: Everyone else gets Sunday off…
feature The prime minister has finally formed a committee to study the two-day weekend, said Kobi Oz at Yedioth Ahronoth.
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Canada: A slap on the wrist for a pedophile
feature Canadians are outraged over the laughably light sentence given to a child molester.
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How they see us: Is health care for all un-American?
feature To most of the rest of the world, the “toxic debate” over health care is baffling.
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Israel: Is Netanyahu moving toward the center?
feature The prime minister surprised everyone by canceling elections and bringing the centrist Kadima party into his governing coalition.
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Egypt: A court rules on Mubarak’s crimes
feature A judge sentenced Hosni Mubarak to life in prison.
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Egypt: A revolution reversed
feature The Egyptian counterrevolution is complete. Will Egyptians renew their resistance?
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