Our undercover conservative answers a tough question: If socialized medicine is so awful, how come no country that's adopted nationalized healthcare has ever gotten rid of it?
By Glenallen Walken May 18, 2009
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England encourages more men to take paternity leave.
By Amy Benfer
April 2, 2009
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News item: 1755 diary mentions baseball in England. That's nice, but we already had a 1744 reference. Not to mention David Wells.
By King Kaufman
September 17, 2008
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A guide to classic American shows born overseas.
By Logan Scherer
September 4, 2008
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Will a change in U.K. immigration laws doom the most savory relic of the British Empire?
By Andrew Leonard
March 20, 2008
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British spy agency is on the hunt for female, minority applicants.
By Lynn Harris
July 23, 2008
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The Guardian details an "all-out assault" on feminism.
By Lynn Harris
July 2, 2008
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English soccer fans angry about proposed offshoring of their national game. Quaint. But we could learn from them.
By King Kaufman
February 11, 2008
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"The Brit Box" evokes an era of pale, sensitive, eyelinered boys -- and the Anglophiles who loved them.
By Simon Reynolds
December 8, 2007
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Britain's No Music Day offers a welcome hush over a noisy world. It can't come to America soon enough.
By Kevin Berger
November 22, 2007
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Giuliani claims he might not have survived prostate cancer under "socialized medicine," yet he was covered by a government-provided plan.
By Joe Conason
November 2, 2007
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U.K. judge slammed for lenient sentence of a child rapist.
By Lynn Harris
June 27, 2007
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Bush plays naughty boy to the queen at his not-so-royal state dinner. But all those white ties couldn't hide his low poll numbers.
By Sidney Blumenthal
May 10, 2007
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The former CIA chief seems strangely oblivious that his self-serving defense is shredding the remains of his reputation.
By Sidney Blumenthal
May 3, 2007
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"Miss D" pleads for the right to end a doomed pregnancy -- in England.
By Lynn Harris
May 2, 2007
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After a nightmare flight from New York to London, I was thrown into a Victorian hellhole of a prison alongside drug smugglers and rapists. This is my story.
By Peter Kurth
May 1, 2007
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You've seen one, you've seen them all.
By David Puner
December 22, 2006
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The rumors swirling around Princess Diana's death were nonsense. But after her celebrity, the royal family, and England, will never be the same.
By Andrew Brown
December 14, 2006
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Five women have been killed in Suffolk County, England, and news outlets can't get enough.
By Carol Lloyd
December 14, 2006
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With the release of "Casino Royale," I read Ian Fleming's classic Bond novels again and discovered a talented spy who was "just like us" and a writer devoted to pleasure.
By Allen Barra
November 25, 2006
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Nigel Slater, England's favorite food writer, chats about his new cookbook, British food's bum rap, and the future of fish and chips.
By Adam Roberts
October 31, 2006
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Drawing on a true story about Sherlock Holmes' creator and disemboweled farm animals, Julian Barnes delivers his most substantial novel.
By Laura Miller
February 1, 2006
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New Tory leader David Cameron is imitating Bush's campaign -- even claiming to be a "compassionate conservative."
By Sidney Blumenthal
December 15, 2005
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Bestselling writers Neil Gaiman and Susanna Clarke talk with Salon about fairies, folk tales and fighting the tyranny of realism.
By Laura Miller
October 8, 2005
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Britons debate a post-9/11 police policy that led to the killing of an innocent man.
By Andrew Brown
September 7, 2005