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France’s top business daily dissects the Republican governors’ challenge to public sector unions. Protesters at capitol in Madison, WI (minasodaboy) NEW YORK – Americans do not take to the streets easily. But when they do, the result can be extraordinary. Take Madison, the capital of Wisconsin, flooded nowadays with colorful banners and angry union supporters. […]
Local culture officials and friends of the artist debate restoration of a giant mural painted just before Haring’s death. Detail (and postcard) of Tuttomondo in Pisa (zak mc) PISA – Keith Haring, who died in 1990, was an American ‘writer” of a different sort. The most important graffiti artist to emerge from New York’s 1980s […]
A German commentator says the shooting of Gabrielle Giffords is not about politics, but guns — and security measures are about to crank up even higher While Gabrielle Giffords clung to life after her surgery in a Tucson hospital, America’s political leaders took to the cable news channels with the indignant rhetoric that typically follows […]
Washington struggles to find a way to deal with Julian Assange’s system. And the world is watching