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Nov 12, 2010 02:20 AM
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Jeffrey Sachs is one of the world's most influential economists. He sat down with TDI to discuss the broader issues surrounding his work in international development, including the deteriorating quality of America's political discussion, Obama's failures, and what our generation can do to fix it all.
Election 2010
Nov 02, 2010 11:09 PM
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The unsurprising results of Tuesday's midterm elections are in, and populist outrage seems to have won the day. Say hello to the new Speaker of the House.
Election 2010
Nov 01, 2010 04:27 PM
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Citizens of the Dartmouth Bubble: In case you weren't aware, there is an election tomorrow. TDI's Donald Casler gives us his fair and balanced survey of the playing field.
Pomp Without Circumstance
Oct 22, 2010 01:57 PM
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The New York Times re-shoots its columnist portraits, with unflattering results.
Free Lunch
Oct 22, 2010 01:15 PM
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The UK has been hailed as a model of fiscal austerity. But British defense draw-downs will have to be made up somewhere — most likely the pocketbook of the American taxpayer.
Reporter At Large
Oct 21, 2010 05:56 PM
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Last year, John Lee edited a book about the increasing brutality of the Malaysian government. Within months, the government declared it a threat to national security and forcibly removed it from bookstores. The exchange is a chilling example of a country sliding into authoritarianism.
Coast to Coast
Oct 20, 2010 03:25 PM
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Identical twins challenge Arizona's automated traffic enforcement, a chimp attacks a patrol car, and a billion-year-old monstrosity with a guttural name terrorizes Hawaii.
Coast to Coast is TDI’s roundup of the latest regional headlines from across the U.S.
Personal History
Jun 17, 2010 05:21 PM
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When Laura was in Jerusalem last year, she thought her hostel manager was a bit odd. Turns out, he was a fugitive pedophile from California.
Coast to Coast
Jun 17, 2010 03:35 PM
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A messy box of ribs causes a bomb scare, and an extra cheesestick lands a student in jail. Hello, Nashville!
Coast to Coast is TDI’s roundup of the latest regional headlines from across the U.S.
The East
May 25, 2010 07:51 AM
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Recent agitations in East Asia have tested and exposed the limits of U.S. power and sparked fears of war. Why it is in America's interest to keep Asian relations at a simmer.
On This Day
May 24, 2010 08:10 PM
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A roundup of some of the notable happenings, new arrivals, and tearful departures on this date in history.
Mutual Annihilation
May 24, 2010 02:38 PM
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The complaints about Elena Kagan's appointment to the Supreme Court challenge the myth that Americans want—or have ever had—an impartial judiciary.
Thailand
May 20, 2010 07:31 PM
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Thailand has rarely, if ever, been a functioning democratic state. Now, as the country burns, few have taken the time to discuss the origins of the "popular struggle" that's tearing the country apart. John Lee tells you everything you never knew about the history behind the uprising.
Caption Contest
May 20, 2010 07:19 PM
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This man wants a caption so bad.
Name: Ed Balls.
Why you care: Candidate for leadership of the British Labour Party.
Enter your submissions in the comments section of this article by Friday, May 28.
Come, ye armchair generals, statesmen, and oil barons. The Smoke-Filled Room covers issues of politics, business, and international affairs with all the predictability of a 12-gauge. Speculators, sycophants, aspiring monopolists and other fashionable degenerates are always welcome.
Leave no cigar un-chomped.
Editor:
Wyatt McKean has been a senior editor of The Dartmouth Independent since 2008. He is a Government major and has studied abroad at the London School of Economics. His interests include history, economics, arts and architecture.
Senior Writer:
Kevin Karp is TDI's chief international correspondent, having graduated from Dartmouth last spring. He has worked in the British Parliament and is a graduate student in History at Cambridge University.
Writers:
Charles Buker is a Government major and Spanish minor who has lived in Buenos Aires and studied abroad in Madrid. This summer, he worked in the office of Washington, D.C.'s Chief Financial Officer. He specializes in Spanish and Latin American affairs as well as American politics and constitutional law.
John Chen is a Government and History major who specializes in military studies and East Asian foreign policy.
Timothy Kessler is a Government major working on a senior honors thesis about Identitarian Realism.
John Lee is a columnist for The Malaysian Insider and was co-editor of Where Is Justice?, a book about the brutal politics of the Malaysian government. Recently, Malaysian authorities began forcibly removing his book from stores; he writes about the experience in TDI's fall print issue.
Laura Logan is a junior at the American University in Cairo specializing in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Her many dispatches from Cairo and Jerusalem have included stories of stone-hurling teenagers, fugitive pedophiles, and detainment at the Ben Gurion Airport.
David Mainiero is the Executive Editor of The Dartmouth Independent. He is a History major with a specialty in Iranian affairs.
My Time With Senator Kennedy, by Christopher Silberman
Night and Fog, by Kevin Karp
Two Ships in the Night, by David Mainiero
Permanent Revival, by Kevin Karp
Ground Shift, by Wyatt McKean
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