How the World Works

By Andrew Leonard

Posts on Wednesday, November 21, 2007

A new player in Afghanistan's Great Game
A Chinese mining company wins the rights to develop what could be the world's biggest copper mine
When is a military dictator a freedom fighter?
When war is peace and ignorance is strength. A selection from "The Collected Works of George Bush."
One woman, one daughter
The magic words are "a net reproduction rate below one point zero." What do they mean? That a decline in global population numbers is within sight

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Google vs. Microsoft: Haven't we seen this movie?
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In the summer, the Big 3 usually idle factories and lay off workers. But this year, they're ahead of schedule
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Social justice, wealth redistribution, a new morality for Wall Street -- the pontiff throws down on capitalism
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Is the Obama economic rescue plan a failure?
Swayed by GOP attacks, independent voters are abandoning ship. But the summer of stimulus love has hardly started
Are automaker woes skewing unemployment figures?
In the summer, the Big 3 usually idle factories and lay off workers. But this year, they're ahead of schedule
The Pope's liberal Christian values
Social justice, wealth redistribution, a new morality for Wall Street -- the pontiff throws down on capitalism

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