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- Three Percent
- Times Literary Supplement
General places of interest
- ALDaily
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- Atlantic Online
- Boing Boing
- BOMB
- Boston Globe Ideas Section
- Cabinet
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- LA Times
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- The Rest is Noise (Alex Ross)
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Music
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- Dissent
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- Foreign Policy: Passport
- Gallup Daily
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- Interesting Times (George Packer’s blog)
- La Plaza- LA Times’ Latin America blog
- Mama Said Wonk You Out (Ezra Klein)
- Media Matters
- Net.Effect
- Opendemocracy
- Politico
- Real Clear Politics
- Talking Points Memo
- The Daily Beast
- The Lede
- The Nation
- The New Republic
- Think Tank (Steve Coll)
- Truth Out
Science
Slate
- Feed has moved
El Clarín
- Brasil defendió el derecho de Irán al desarrollo nuclear
- El negocio de la energía atómica
- Lula dio un apoyo clave a Mujica para las elecciones
- "Barack Obama no está haciendo nada por el proceso de paz en Oriente Medio"
- "Lula puede ser un mediador en el conflicto"
- Quito y Bogotá reanudan el vínculo diplomático
- Una feroz disputa política en Filipinas deja 21 decapitados
NYTimes Most Emailed
- Becoming the Alpha Dog in Your Own Home
- Op-Ed Columnist: The Values Question
- Well: Food, Kin and Tension at Thanksgiving
- Theater Review | 'Fela!': Making Music Mightier Than the Sword
- Basics: The Biology Behind the Milk of Human Kindness
- Runaway Spent 11 Days in the Subways
- Catching Tuna and Hanging On for the Ride
Le Monde Europe
- Les Islandais s'adaptent au dur régime d'après-crise
- Grippe A : 305 000 personnes ont été vaccinées
- Belgique : Yves Leterme va retrouver son poste de premier ministre
- La future Commission européenne comptera un tiers de femmes
- En Roumanie, un bébé oublié dans une couveuse par une infirmière débordée
- José Luis Rodriguez Zapatero s'engage à "changer le modèle économique" de l'Espagne
- Grippe A : horaires adaptés dans les centres et bons de vaccination obligatoires
The Washington Post
- U.S. commander, ambassador to testify on war in Afghanistan
- Mollohan, under Justice Department probe, chairs appropriations subcommittee
- Iraqi parliament passes another election law
- Washington Sketch: Seeing a setback in the race against breast cancer
- Obama Remarks on Math, Science and Technology Education
- Rise in stock ownership among lawmakers brings ethics concerns
- Public option at center of debate
OpenDemocracy
- Conflict Transformed? The start of a debate ,
- Obama to announce Afghan troop increase within days,
- Public service guarantees,
- Where is Scotland going? Foreign lands and forgotten places,
- Border zones and insecurity in the Americas,
- Graham Allen says it as it is,
- Russia's Muslim Strategy - foreign policy,
Reuters AlertNet
- US will not join treaty banning landmines
- China doesn't want "empty" Copenhagen deal-Xinhua
- New Zealand passes carbon law through key stage
- Obama seeks to reassure Singh on US-India ties
- Australia's carbon scheme gains bipartisan support
- FBI adds two to 'Most Wanted Terrorists' list
- INTERVIEW-Zelaya says Honduran election could divide region
Bookforum
- OMNIVORE: 20 years of collapse
- OMNIVORE: Mired in many vowels
- OMNIVORE: Economic disappointment for most
- OMNIVORE: The greatest sport ever
- THE DAILY REVIEW: Your Face Tomorrow: Poison, Shadow, and Farewell by Javier Marías, from The National
- OMNIVORE: The Europeanization of America
- OMNIVORE: Figures of postwar philosophy
