Best Columns - US
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The selling of Dr. King’s message
feature For years, Martin Luther King Jr.'s surviving four children have shamelessly mined their father’s image for private profit, said Jonathan Turley in the Los Angeles Times.
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Che was a murderer, not a hero
feature The real Ernesto “Che” Guevara was far from the “youthful idealist” celebrated in film and transformed into a global icon, said Nick Gillespie in Reason.com.
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The myth of small-town superiority
feature The only snobbery Americans will tolerate is reverse snobbery, said Steve Chapman in Chicago Tribune, which is why Sarah Palin is getting away with trumpeting rural America over urban America.
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Where to flee if Obama wins
feature Where can conservatives go if Barack Obama wins the election? asked Chris Wilson Slate.com. And what if the Democrats win both houses of Congress?
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The false benevolence of Mother Nature
feature Our beloved Earth, it turns out, is quite a nasty place, said Drake Bennett in The Boston Globe.
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What we can learn from slums
feature A growing number of urban planners see in slums some features that should be emulated, not condemned, said Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow in The Boston Globe.
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The smug confidence of libertarians
feature Why are most libertarians white dudes?
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The irrelevance of the United Nations
feature Once again, the United Nations has been “rendered impotent by a small group of thugs.”
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Snowden’s silence on Putin
feature If Edward Snowden truly is a moral paragon, then he should announce that he can no longer stomach Vladimir Putin’s oppressive behavior.
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Viewpoint: Michael S. Teitelbaum and Jay M. Winter
feature From The New York Times: “Nearly half of all people now live in countries where women, on average, give birth to fewer than 2.1 babies...
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Is religion the root of all evil?
feature Religion, atheist authors argue in a spate of recent books, is
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How democracy can literally save lives
feature Among intellectuals, said Daniel Henninger,
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Best columns: The real lesson of the Cuban Missile Crisis
feature If the Cuban Missile Crisis is to be used as an example of presidential leadership during a nuclear showdown, then it's necessary to separate history from mythology, said Michael Dobbs in The Washington Post.
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The global plague of tourism
feature Tourism may be most people’s idea of fun—but the world can’t take much more of it, said Elizabeth Becker in The Washington Post.
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