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Michael Klare
Children play in water pipes at a construction site on the banks of the Yamuna River in the northern Indian city of Allahabad July 26, 2010. REUTERS/Jitendra Prakash (INDIA - Tags: SOCIETY IMAGES OF THE DAY) (© Jitendra Prakash / Reuters)

Hanna Ingber Win - GlobalPost
Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron leaves Downing Street in London, to attend the weekly Prime Ministers Questions in Parliament, Wednesday, Sept. 14, 2011. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth) (AP)

Ryan Lucas
In a Thursday, Sept. 8, 2011 photo, Republican presidential candidate Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., delivers the Republican response to the speech by President Barack Obama to a joint session of Congress at the Capitol in Washington. Starting this weekend, Bachmann plans to campaign almost exclusively in Iowa as she tries to reassert herself in a race that's become a two-candidate contest between Texas Gov. Rick Perry and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen) (Cliff Owen)

Bachmann's desperate vaccine ploy

Alex Pareene
James Carville and President Barack Obama (Reuters/AP)

The perils of partisan punditry in the Obama age

Glenn Greenwald

Stewart on the Dems' post-Weiner NY disaster

Peter Finocchiaro
China's President Hu Jintao

Andrew Leonard
Texas Gov. Rick Perry

Gene Lyons

Peter Finocchiaro

Why the GOP's electoral college scheme is doomed

Steve Kornacki

Schools' epidemic of boredom

Daniel Denvir

Kathleen E. McLaughlin - GlobalPost
Republican presidential candidate and former CEO of Godfather's Pizza Herman Cain speaks during the Iowa Republican Party's Straw Poll, Saturday, Aug. 13, 2011, in Ames, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall) (AP)

Alex Pareene
U.S. President Barack Obama delivers remarks to military personnel at Pensacola Naval Air Station in Pensacola, Florida, June 15, 2010. REUTERS/Jim Young (UNITED STATES - Tags: POLITICS MILITARY HEADSHOT) (© Jim Young / Reuters)

Andrew Leonard
FILE - In this April 11, 2011, file photo, Elizabeth Warren, then-assistant to the President, speaks during a summit on consumer protection by the National Association of Attorneys General in Charlotte, N.C. The consumer advocate Warren is jumping into the Massachusetts race against Republican Sen. Scott Brown. (AP Photo/Chuck Burton) (Chuck Burton)

Elizabeth Warren's dream and nightmare

Steve Kornacki
El nuevo aspirante a la candidatura republicana a la presidencia, el gobernador de Texas Rick Perry, habla con sus correligionarios durante una cena del domingo 14 de agosto del 2011, en Waterloo, Iowa. (Foto AP/Charlie Neibergall) (AP)

The Perry electability illusion

Alex Pareene

Robert Reich
Rep. Sue Myrick

GOP rep. cancels 9/11 events over Iranian "threat"

Justin Elliott
A dissident signs the letter "L" for the Spanish word "libertad" or freedom as he is detained by police during a procession celebrating Cuba's patron saint in Havana, Cuba, Thursday Sept. 8, 2011

Nick Miroff - GlobalPost
An Afghan soldier takes position under a huge poster of Afghan President Hamid Karzai with his late brother Ahmad Wali Karzai, during a gun battle with militants in Kabul, Afghanistan on Tuesday, Sept. 13, 2011. Taliban insurgents fired rocket-propelled grenades and assault rifles at the U.S. Embassy, NATO headquarters and other buildings in the heart of the Afghan capital Tuesday in a brazen attack two days after the United States marked the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11 terror attacks. (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq) (AP)

Heidi Vogt, Amir Shah

Peter Finocchiaro
One of the worlds heaviest waves breaks in Tahiti

Andrew Leonard
Bob Turner, center, joined by his wife Peggy, right, and family smiles as he delivers his victory speech during an election night party, Wednesday, Sept. 14, 2011 in New York. Turner says his win in a heavily Democratic New York City district is a "loud and clear" message to Washington. Turner defeated Democratic Assemblyman David Weprin on Tuesday to succeed Anthony Weiner who resigned amid a sexting scandal. It's the first time a Republican has been elected in the district. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer) (AP)

The GOP's unremarkable stunner

Steve Kornacki
Republican presidential candidates (L-R): Rick Santorum, Newt Gingrich, Michele Bachmann, Mitt Romney, Rick Perry, Ron Paul, Herman Cain, and Jon Huntsman stand on stage before the start of the Reagan Centennial GOP presidential primary debate at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, California September 7, 2011. REUTERS/Mario Anzuoni (UNITED STATES - Tags: POLITICS) (© Mario Anzuoni / Reuters)

Arizona sets off 2012 primary scheduling chaos

Alex Pareene
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