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Oct.11.2012
I envy my bilingual friends, but I must admit my ugly-American monolingualism never really hindered me. I’ve traveled all over the Middle East and what I couldn’t understand there, translators could. We spent two years living in Paris, where I wrote a book about an Englishman. Nestled inside a...
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Feb.06.2012
Cairo -- The sick obsession with controlling women and baby-making is a bottomless well of weirdness.
In Egypt, and other nations, Indonesia and Turkey among them, certainly the Gulf States, doctors or midwives are sometimes asked to perform "virginity tests" to ensure that a man is getting a...
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Aug.30.2011
Born in the 1980s and '90s, the right-wing girl Millennials grew up at a time when Reagan was almost ancient history, second-wave feminism was fighting grandma's battles, and the background noise was the whir of talking heads debating whether oral sex was sex at all, courtesy of Bill Clinton....
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Jan.10.2011
Can anyone remember what happened the last time a left-winger brought a loaded assault rifle to display in public within sight of a Republican event?
No, we can't, because college kids with backpacks sporting John Kerry stickers got thrown in jail for their menacing presence at Bush rallies. Anyone...
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Sep.20.2010
If anyone still doubted, or hadn't noticed, that misogyny is the fundamental pillar on which radical Islam is based, the news that poison gas was pumped into girls' schools in Afghanistan, likely by the Taliban, ought to confirm it.
The story, first reported in the U.S. in the New York Times two...
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Jul.30.2010
A few weeks ago, a sunny, bearably warm day in NYC, I was walking through Central Park, talking with an editor about a story. Suddenly the call waiting buzzer started going off, incessantly, and "message waiting" signals were blinking away. I hung up on the editor to learn that hackers...
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Jun.21.2010
The tragic images of dying, oil-drenched animals and the underwater spew in the Gulf are sickening. They make us feel ashamed to be human, certainly ashamed to be driving our cars. There is one upside to the unfolding disaster, though: at least we don't have to drink it.The Delaware River, in...
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May.23.2010
Genius and the lure of young flesh.
Until recently, in the western world, the right of a Great Man to man-handle a reluctant, pliant young woman was simply not questioned. With the advent of sexual harassment laws, the old order is under attack. It won't go down easily. Novels by and about angry...
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May.23.2010
I will admit it took us the longest time to get properly introduced to Mr. Madoff, but that was part of his appeal. For years, our friends the Jerkoffs - the ones with seven houses, the ones whose kids taught our kids to believe that taking a helicopter is the only socially acceptable way to get...
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About nina
Nina Burleigh is a journalist and the author of five books. She is currently working on an ebook single about women and the "Arab Spring" to be published by Byliner.
Her latest book, The Fatal Gift of Beauty, was a New York Times bestseller. In the last...
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