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Dani Filc as Guest Blogger at the Washington Post
Dani Filc, author of Circles of Exclusion: The Politics of Health Care in Israel guest-blogged about Health Care Lessons from Israel on the Washington Post’s Short Stack blog.… more →
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Dani Filc as Guest Blogger at the Washington Post
sagehouse wrote 2 months ago: Dani Filc, author of Circles of Exclusion: The Politics of Health Care in Israel guest-blogged about … more →
Background on Fiji
sagehouse wrote 3 months ago: The Mother Jones report on the sociopolitical and environmental context for the production of Fiji W … more →
Corporate Warriors: sadly still highly topical
sagehouse wrote 3 months ago: As Blackwater continues to be the focus of news attention (CIA terror link puts rebranded Blackwater … more →
Apology as diplomatic tool
sagehouse wrote 9 months ago: In a February 3, 2009, piece on the Foreign Policy site, Stephen M. Walt draws upon Jennifer Lind … more →
Ravenswood: End of an Era
sagehouse wrote 9 months ago: The aluminum plant whose crucial role in labor history is described in Ravenswood: The Steelworkers … more →
Michael A. Santoro on CNN
sagehouse wrote 10 months ago: CNN turned to Michael A. Santoro, author of China 2020: How Western Business Can—and Should—Influenc … more →
The New Masters of Capital at GlobalHigherEd
sagehouse wrote 1 year ago: The GlobalHigherEd blog (Surveying the Construction of Global Knowledge/Spaces for the ‘Knowle … more →
Austria as Theater and Ideology and Gérard Mortier
sagehouse wrote 1 year ago: In his blog The View from Here, Andrew Patner highlights Michael P. Steinberg’s Austria as The … more →
Read Up on Georgia
sagehouse wrote 1 year ago: Russian troops have entered Georgia today, reports the New York Times. If you want to get up to spee … more →
Suzanne Gordon in the Miami Herald
sagehouse wrote 1 year ago: Suzanne Gordon, coauthor of Safety in Numbers: Nurse-to-Patient Ratios and the Future of Health Care … more →
Okinawa
sagehouse wrote 1 year ago: The United States finds itself once again exceedingly unpopular on the Japanese island of Okinawa; a … more →
Kosovo
sagehouse wrote 1 year ago: International recognition of the independent nation of Kosovo continues apace. For background on Kos … more →
Background on East Timor
sagehouse wrote 1 year ago: CNN reports that East Timor has declared a state of emergency (2/12/08) after a new wave of violence … more →
Nicolas Véron in the Financial Times
sagehouse wrote 1 year ago: Nicolas Véron, author of Smoke & Mirrors, Inc.: Accounting for Capitalism, and Thomas Philippon … more →
How to Proceed in Darfur?
sagehouse wrote 1 year ago: The newly appointed U.N. Peace Messenger, George Clooney, gave a press conference on January 31 in w … more →
Understanding Indonesia's Recent Past
sagehouse wrote 1 year ago: The death of Suharto has brought renewed attention to the political landscape of Indonesia, past and … more →
Nabokov's Laura
sagehouse wrote 1 year ago: For the past week or so, the litblogs have been abuzz with discussion about the final disposition of … more →
Smoke and Mirrors and $7.1 Billion
sagehouse wrote 1 year ago: The New York Times reports today on a trader at the French bank Société Générale who defrauded his e … more →
France gets health care—U.S. gets, what, exactly?
sagehouse wrote 1 year ago: An Agence France-Presse story gives a brief summary of a new Commonwealth Fund study showing that th … more →
