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Sanctions for Dummies: Here's How We Play It

As things heat up with Russia (and all that Crimea stuff), here's a deeper look at the chess game of sanctions.

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This Week in Hillary-World: The Stupid, The Sensational, The Sexist!

This week, pundits pondered Hillary's old age, gender and . . . connection to a Divergent movie villain?

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The Ugly Side of Soccer: 900 Workers Dead in Preparation for Qatar World Cup—When Will the Madness Stop?

Migrant construction workers for the 2022 World Cup are dying in droves—and construction completion is still years away. If estimates are correct, thousands more workers could perish.

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Las Vegas: Where Humans (and Pigs?!) Gorge on Prime Rib and Lobster Tail

Las Vegas has many taglines, but “waste not, want not” isn’t one of them.

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Paris Invades China: Chinese Nouveau Rich Ditch Traditional Homes for Beaux-Arts Architecture

East-meets-West cultural trends are good for stirring the pot, and the increasing wealth of the Chinese elite provides ample fodder for this mishma

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High on History: Sick Sad World — 20th-Century Aristocrats Used Mental Patients as Slaves

There are few things that engross (horrify) us like tales of mental asylum scandal, and boy, have we got a good one!

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