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Celebration is Premature: The Economy is Still Contracting
Over the last two weeks, the main-stream media and the stock market have greeted new economic data released by the Commerce and Labor Departments with enthusiasm. Although these data show that the recession is not deepening as fast as it had been during previous months, they still show that the economy is contracting. Continue reading
Destroyed By Communism
Two decades after the Tiananmen Square massacre in Beijing, everything in China has changed, and yet nothing has changed. Visible to all, China’s large cities have undoubtedly undergone great transformations. Largely invisible, China’s dirt-poor countryside seems unchanged, even immutable—as does the nation’s pervasive political repression. It is still forbidden to mention the Tiananmen massacre in China. Officially, nothing happened in the square on June 4, 1989. Government discourse and children’s schoolbooks mention some vague disorder that took place that year, immediately followed by the Beijing police’s restoring order. The Communist Party denies that there were any casualties. Even today, their number is unknown: according to the Red Cross’s estimate, the Chinese military killed about 3,000 students. Most of the bodies have disappeared, snatched away and burned by soldiers to destroy the evidence. Continue reading
Twitter will set them free
On his recent trip abroad, President Barack Obama declared that the United States could not impose its values on other nations. But what if we were actually complicit in undermining our fundamental values elsewhere? Continue reading
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