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Reid on Health Care Package: 'We're Not There Yet'
By Patricia Murphy
President Barack Obama went to Capitol Hill on Sunday to press Democratic senators to pass a health care reform bill, but moments after his 45-minute meeting with senators, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said, "We're not there yet." ...
Burma Journal: Curiosity and Hope in the Land of the Lost
By Alex Wagner
They say that Venice is sinking, but really, when you arrive in Rangoon, it becomes clear that if any place is slowly edging deeper into the earth, it's this one. There's a certain romance in the crumbling colonial buildings, covered in black mold like shrouds of mourning, or the public buses from ...
Burma Journal: The Hard Work of Healing Is a Bitter Pill for Doctors
By Alex Wagner
Burma is not a good place to get sick. It's a bad place for a lot of things -- basic freedoms, rule of law, taxis (the fleet in Rangoon is about 30 years old and suffering from some seriously gnarly transmission ailments). Still, the government has an abysmal record when it comes to helping the ...
Burma Journal: The Kids Are Alright -- a Democratic Youth Movement
By Alex Wagner
There's graffiti covering the walls surrounding the Generation Wave hideout here in the dusty town of Mae Sot on the Thai-Burma border: giant bubble letters spelling out FREEDOM and DEMOCRACY in a shade of purple too optimistically bright to be the handiwork of disgruntled youth. This despite the ...
Burma Journal: Rights Activists, Reporting From the Underground
By Alex Wagner
Chiang Mai, in northern Thailand, is a bustling town ringed by green hills and overrun with kitschy coffee shops, screaming mopeds and, apparently, a lot of free wi-fi. I once listened to Blues Traveler and had a nose ring, so I can't rag on the backpacking set that flocks here for cheap noodles, ...
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