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Before the Notre Dame Heisman-finalist and Lennay Kekua, there was Ms. Krabappel and Woodrow. More »
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Before the Notre Dame Heisman-finalist and Lennay Kekua, there was Ms. Krabappel and Woodrow. More »
The White House Death Star petition was a joke, but the prospect of war in outer space is anything but. More »
The founder of the Millenium Villages Project espouses a geographically deterministic view of African conflict. More »
The hidden pitfalls of Eric Schmidt's trip to North Korea More »
A new report revises the civil war's casualty count upward by tens of thousands -- but even that might be too low. More »
Some appropriately less-than-confident conjecture about what the new year might have in store More »
Eritrean information minister Ali Abdu, who is rumored to have defected this past week, helped build arguably the strictest system of media control in the entire world. More »
A new Human Rights Watch report offers a rare glimpse into one of the least-accessible conflict zones on earth. More »
The White House's "red line" rhetoric on Syria's unconventional arsenal tiptoes around battlefield ethics. More »
The potential next secretary of state was involved in affecting a major shift in the U.S approach toward Africa. But what it a positive one? More »
Goma is returning to normal, but the region's broader crisis isn't abating -- and might only get worse. More »
For years, Hamas had been cooperating with Iran and Syria to improve its ability to strike deep inside Israel. More »
Rwanda will join the UN Security Council at a time when regional stability is deteriorating -- and the actions of the country's government are being called into question. More »
As the former CIA chief and military leader's official career ends, the grappling with his formidable legacy -- and what it might mean for future U.S. policy -- can begin. More »
For the first time in 20 years, air raid sirens sound in Israel's largest metro area. More »
Fans are weathering the labor mess with fake games, foreign leagues, and angst. More »
Even after an oil treaty with the South Sudan, the government in Khartoum has plenty to worry about. More »
The country's government has proven surprisingly resilient in the face of its second natural disaster in as many years. More »
