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Why Is Hollywood So Upset About Brunei?
China’s Totally Misguided Campaign to Turn Working Women into Wifeys
Ai Weiwei Plays Vaguely Steampunk Water Smuggler in New Sci-Fi Movie
Hey Lorde, Just Who Are These Maybach-Driving New Zealanders?
Everything Is Terrible: Kristen Stewart Will Star in a Romantic Take on '1984'
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Why Is Hollywood So Upset About Brunei?
Typically, the imposition of sharia law in a distant land doesn't make much of a splash in Hollywood. But in the case of Brunei, a tiny, oil-rich country whose overseas investments include California landmarks like the Beverly Hills Hotel and the...
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Thu, May 05 2014 4:20 PM
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China’s Totally Misguided Campaign to Turn Working Women into Wifeys
China's government has some advice for the country's young, highly educated women: Get married early, or you'll regret it. The official propaganda puts it more eloquently. "As women age, they are worth less and less," one government...
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Fri, Apr 04 2014 1:34 PM
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Ai Weiwei Plays Vaguely Steampunk Water Smuggler in New Sci-Fi Movie
Chinese artist Ai Weiwei has staged shows in just about every major metropolitan city in the world (his latest just opened in Berlin). He designed Beijing's iconic "Bird's Nest" stadium for the 2008 Olympics -- then proceeded to denounce...
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Wed, Apr 04 2014 3:58 PM
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Hey Lorde, Just Who Are These Maybach-Driving New Zealanders?
It's been a little over a year since the debut of " Royals ," the smash hit from the waifish New Zealand songstress Lorde, and what a year it's been. Having charmed both critics and listeners around the world, the anti-opulence, wrong...
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Mon, Jan 01 2014 9:57 AM
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Everything Is Terrible: Kristen Stewart Will Star in a Romantic Take on '1984'
Unless you've been living under a rock, you've probably noticed that kids these days are obsessed with dark, dystopian novels, especially their film adaptations. There's the Hunger Games franchise, Divergent , The Bone Season , and Ender's...
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Thu, Jan 01 2014 1:30 PM
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Exile on Jihad Street: Can Mali’s World-Famous Music Festival Ever Go Back Home?
Not even Mali’s music-hating Islamists can the keep the country’s musicians from throwing a king-sized show. Musicians in the country have been embattled since 2012, when a triumvirate of militant Islamist groups groups seized power of the country and...
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Thu, Jan 01 2014 9:34 AM
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Survey Says: Muslim Women, Cover Your Hair, Not Your Faces
A new report by the University of Michigan's Institute for Social Research has shed some light on how Muslim women should cover up. Looking at surveys from seven predominately Muslim countries the researchers found that most respondents thought women...
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Wed, Jan 01 2014 3:04 PM
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Coming Soon: The Holocaust Documentary Hitchcock Was Almost Too Scared to Make
Before Hollywood dubbed him the "Master of Suspense," Alfred Hitchcock made anti-Nazi propaganda films for the British Ministry of Information. Some of his work from that period, including "Foreign Correspondent" (1940) and "Saboteur"...
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Wed, Jan 01 2014 1:42 PM
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Egypt Adds Puppetry to its Enemy of the State List
It has been said already that the Egyptian government's increasingly zealous campaign against the Muslim Brotherhood has reached absurd heights. But it's one level of ridiculous to pin terrorist attacks already claimed by a group of Sinai militants...
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Thu, Jan 01 2014 10:37 AM
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The World Takes on a Common Enemy: The Hangover
"First you take a drink," wrote American author F. Scott Fitzgerald, "then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you." That final 'taking' is less obliquely described as a 'hangover,' and it's a bugbear...
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Wed, Jan 01 2014 12:08 PM
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Beyonce's New Album Got FP Global Thinker Chimamanda Adichie All Wrong
Beyonce is just full of surprises. In the past 24 hours, she dropped an album, joined Weibo, and -- to our particular delight -- paid tribute to one of Foreign Policy's 2013 Global Thinkers , Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, whose 2013 novel Americanah is...
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Fri, Dec 12 2013 1:30 PM
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30 Years After Martial Law, Poland's Blundering Hero Comes to the Big Screen
Thirty years ago this week, an unassuming mother of seven (later eight), wearing a modest black blazer and white blouse stood in front of an audience of international dignitaries gathered in Oslo, Norway. She had come to accept the Nobel Peace Prize on...
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Fri, Dec 12 2013 11:00 AM
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Can Science Fiction Survive in Saudi Arabia?
On Monday, Saudi authors Yasser Bahjatt and Ibraheem Abbas learned that their science fiction book, which shot to the top of the best-seller list in Saudi Arabia, had been banned from sale in Kuwait and Qatar. The episode was familiar: in late November...
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Tue, Dec 12 2013 11:30 AM
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This Croatian Group Has Had Enough of Bob Dylan's Racism
Bob Dylan may be an icon of the American civil rights movement, but that hasn't stopped a Croatian community group in France from suing the folk singer over allegedly racist comments he made last year. With songs like "The Lonesome Death of Hattie...
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Mon, Dec 12 2013 11:44 AM
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'The Rock' Reps U.S. Army-Licensed Clothing Line
Military chic is so hot right now. It was only a matter of time before the actual military caught on. Last week, Elle informed its readers that military inspired style was making a comeback -- in the words of the magazine, "North Korea chic."...
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Mon, Nov 11 2013 4:13 PM
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