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This ain’t no party, this ain’t no disco

A few more bad apples. It’s starting to look as American as bad apple pie: Allegations that American soldiers routinely tortured and maltreated detainees have emerged from a third Iraqi city, renewing fears that abuse similar to that inflicted in … Continue reading

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America strikes back

A woman who works for the IS team on the floor above me is married to an Iraqi aerospace engineer. Unfortunately, because of bigotry around the time of the Gulf War, he found he couldn’t get an engineering job—so he … Continue reading

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