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Big kingdom, small window

Adventures with the Ministry of Information
in Saudi Arabia

Saudi medical students meet the press. Photo by Christa Case Bryant/The Christian Science Monitor During the eight years I... More

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Must-reads of the week

A day without violence in New York, an immortal jellyfish in Shirahama, the last bookstore in Nashville

Culled from CJR’s frequently updated “Must-reads from around the Web,” our staff recommendations for the best pieces of journalism (and... More

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The pen and the pump

Why are nations that rely on selling resources so often free-speech poor?

Doha, Qatar—The rent goes up, the democracy goes down, or so they say. This small Arab Gulf nation is what... More

Josh Barro, the loneliest Republican

What to make of the 28-year-old columnist’s contempt for the GOP—and its would-be reformers

Obama as the Green Lantern

Dowd and Fournier and countless others who have launched similar complaints are asking, “Why aren’t we getting what we were promised?”

Elizabeth Spiers on launching media brands

What do news publications need to do to adapt to digital? Any publication you see doing it really well?

Don’t pray for Oklahoma

Wolf Blitzer and other journalists should leave God out of natural disasters

This is water

David Foster Wallace’s 2005 Kenyon commencement speech as a short film

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