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• American gun use is out of control. Shouldn't the world intervene?

  

  21 Sep 2013: Henry Porter: The death toll from firearms in the US suggests that the country is gripped by civil war

• If you found a bag with $40,000 in it, would you try to return it?

  21 Sep 2013:

  A homeless man in Boston found a backpack containing over $40,000 in cash and traveler's cheques and turned it in to police

• Carbon limits: Obama's EPA sets terms for tomorrow's cleaner energy industry

  

  21 Sep 2013:

  Frances Beinecke: We're already paying the costs of climate change. The new power plant emissions standards could not be more timely

• Two years after Troy Davis' execution, our fight to end the death penalty lives

  

  21 Sep 2013:

  Jen Marlowe and Kimberly Davis: The state of Georgia killed Troy Davis – but it could not kill our movement to abolish capital punishment and its cruel injustices

• Choice, for women, is not about biology. It's about basic equality

  

  21 Sep 2013:

  Ana Marie Cox: The battle over abortion rights is simply a flashpoint in women's pervasive experience of being deprived of control of our destinies

• Facebook 'likes' are protected free speech. I'll give a thumbs up to that

  

  20 Sep 2013:

  Dan Gillmor: Free speech online is the key to the future of the internet. Tampering with that – in Congress or the courts – is dangerous

• Seven unreasons why Republicans think they can defund Obamacare

  

  20 Sep 2013:

  Matt Lewis: To call it quixotic is understatement: the GOP effort to defund Obamacare, driven by grassroots rage, cannot end well

• What rubbish, Sir Simon! Our intelligence agencies are not outside the law

  

  20 Sep 2013: Malcolm Rifkind: Real issues arise out of the Snowden affair, but British security laws keep us safe without intruding on citizens' freedoms

• 'I was stop-and-frisked by the NYPD more than 100 times' – video

  

  20 Sep 2013:

  In 2011, the number of stops of young black men exceeded New York City's entire population of young black men. Daniel A Medina followed the story of one, Keeshan, whose teenage years were scarred by the controversial police tactic a court has ruled a violation of minorities' rights

• Pope Francis: music to my progressive Catholic ears

  

  20 Sep 2013:

  Kate Childs Graham: As I read the pope's lengthy interview in America, a national Catholic weekly, all I could think was, 'this guy gets it'

• NSA subversion of internet security: bad for the US, good for criminals

  20 Sep 2013: The Economist: The deliberate weakening of cryptographic systems makes the US government and its technology industry look deeply untrustworthy

• Paula Deen's comeback: proof racism still has a market in America

  

  20 Sep 2013:

  David Dennis: Despite Deen's racist past, I knew one sad fact about her career moving forward: she is going to be as popular as ever before

• The sarin gas attack is just one Syrian atrocity the ICC should pursue

  

  20 Sep 2013:

  Sarah Margon: The diplomacy over chemical weapons blinds us to the obvious: Assad's atrocities are a job for the international criminal court

• Iran: an opportunity to be seized

  

  19 Sep 2013: Editorial: If Iran is to make the concessions necessary for the lifting of punitive sanctions, it needs to be given a clear road map

• Edward Snowden has started a global debate. So why the silence in Britain?

  

  19 Sep 2013:

  Simon Jenkins: We're subject to huge unwarranted surveillance – but Westminster's useful idiots are more likely to sanction than criticise it

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