A flamboyant populist and founder of a virulently anti-immigrant political party, Geert Wilders sees himself as a champion of free speech in the Netherlands.
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Animal Cruelty: New Undercover Video Links Major Retailers to Barbaric Handling of Pigs
Earlier this year, the National Pork Board introduced its new slogan: “Be inspired.” It isn’t nearly as catchy as “the other white meat,” an earlier campaign that touted the health benefits of pork, but it did evoke something even higher and nobler. But nobility hardly describes the public image of the industry this week, and if consumers are inspired to do anything at all, it would be to stop eating pork entirely.
The American Religion: The Mormon Centenary and Utah
In the State of Utah the rock of ages has assumed strange forms. Geologically, as observed in such scenic reservations as Bryce Canyon National Park, The Cedar Breaks, Zion National Park , the rock has been sculptured by erosion, forming unearthly peaks and terraces, ornate gorges, petrified and ghostly cities
In California’s Rich Farm Country: How the Poor May Get Poorer
This week, Linda Garibay’s monthly welfare check will drop by $43.
Arizona Illegal-Immigrant Law Draws Strong Opposition
The toughest anti-illegal-immigrant measure in a generation passed the Arizona legislature this week.
Budget Cuts in the Classroom: What’s on the School Chopping Block?
The slow pace of America’s economic recovery means many states are still hurting financially.
A Twist On Jack And Jill
When Paula Tuffin and her family moved to Essex Fells, N.J., a village of huge homes and hilly landscapes, they were unbothered by the fact that they were the only black folks for miles around. But soon Tuffin, a divorce mediator, began to worry.
Essay: ON TRIBALISM AS THE BLACK MAN’S BURDEN
THE bitter war in Biafra is a symbol of the continent’s divided soul, and the most discouraging example so far of a profound impasse that is crippling many of Black Africa’s 30 newly independent states. It is an impasse between tribe and nation, which is also a clash between tradition and change, fact and aspiration
Vancouver Riots: Hockey Fans Stick It to Their Own City
Updated: June 16, 2011, 3 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time The police in Vancouver did little at first, when drunken and angry sports fans took to making sport of the streets of the city
Spain’s Iberdrola Renovables Meets American Demand for Wind Power
Some 150 miles North of Phoenix, on the edge of Arizona’s Tonto National Forest — a stark high-desert landscape of burnt-orange mesas, saguaro cacti and ponderosa pines — sits the state’s first commercial-scale wind farm.