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  • FGM? Not on my wife!

    If men were better educated about female genital mutilation, would they still support it?
  • Getting through these dark times

    Foreign policy whiz Samantha Power sheds light on a legendary diplomat killed in Iraq, advising Barack Obama and how America can emerge from the Bush era.
  • China's deadly Darfur games

    Slick P.R. moves around the '08 Olympics can't hide the fact that China is still complicit in the Darfur genocide.
  • King Kaufman's Sports Daily

    With a year to go before the Beijing Olympics, activists say China hasn't kept the promises it made to get them.
  • Beyond the Multiplex

    The director of the chilling "No End in Sight" explains how the Iraq occupation went horribly wrong. Plus: The American who made the world notice Darfur.
  • Conversations: "The Devil Came on Horseback"

    The makers of a devastating documentary on Darfur discuss the crisis and how to resolve it in this interview and podcast.
  • Ending "the world's hottest war"

    Can a citizens movement enlisting the likes of George Clooney, Angelina Jolie and Don Cheadle finally stop the genocide in Darfur?
  • Convicted of adultery, sentenced to stoning

    Two Sudanese women go to trial sans lawyer and are sentenced to death.
  • Warren Buffett plays dumb on Darfur

    Berkshire-Hathaway's bogus excuse for not divesting from a Chinese oil company with ties to Sudan
  • Congress steps on Bush's Darfur applause line

    The day after Bush got cheers for mentioning Darfur, members of his own party blasted him for neglecting the region. Does a new Congress mean new hope?
  • "What Is the What"

    A scary interaction in America makes Valentino long to be back in a Sudanese refugee camp.
  • Lost and found

    Dave Eggers and Valentino Achak Deng -- one of 17,000 Lost Boys of Sudan -- talk to Salon about their collaboration on Eggers' new novel, visiting Africa together, and the challenges of coming to America.
  • No peacekeepers, no peace

    As violence in Darfur mounts, and the African Union mission is set to expire, will the U.N. send in the blue helmets?
  • Is Darfur still doomed?

    The peace agreement was a key step, but ending the genocide demands bigger strides by the U.N. -- and the U.S.
  • No oil for blood

    Tired of waiting for the world to act in Darfur, activists have spurred a growing divestment movement aimed at foreign companies that do business with Sudan.
  • NBC's Ann Curry sets foot where Bill O'Reilly doesn't dare

    She'll be covering the genocide in Darfur on the "Today" show this week.
  • Murder from Darfur to Cairo

    At a Sudanese refugee camp, I witnessed the desperation behind the protests -- and eventual slaughter -- of African refugees in Egypt.
  • Lost in America

    It was supposed to be a storybook tale of young refugees triumphing against all odds. But an alarming number of Sudan's "Lost Boys" have spiraled into alcohol abuse, crime and even fratricide. What went wrong?
  • "There's just no way I can walk away"

    A professor urges action on Darfur, saying the U.S. should be embarrassed about declaring the violence genocide while doing so little to stop it.
  • "Not on my watch"

    While the world commemorated the millions of victims of the Nazis on Thursday, Congress squandered an opportunity to address the ongoing genocide in Darfur.
  • Sudan to face "genocide" inquiry

    U.S. and British gather evidence about 30,000 civilians killed, but Powell says talk of military intervention "premature."
  • Sex and drugs in hell

    The authors of "Emergency Sex and Other Desperate Measures" talk about keeping body and soul together in the killing fields of Cambodia, Somalia and Haiti.J
  • Noam Chomsky replies

    The MIT professor responds after Human Rights Watch accuses him of manufacturing facts.
  • Who is Osama bin Laden?

    Is he a cog in a vast wheel of state-sponsored terrorism -- or a new breed of freelance evil genius?
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