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Havel, Czech playwright and president, has died

By: KAREL JANICEK 12/18/11 4:26 AM
Vaclav Havel
Vaclav Havel, the dissident playwright who wove theater into politics to peacefully bring down communism in Czechoslovakia and become a hero of the epic struggle that ended the Cold War, has died. He was 75. Havel died Sunday morning at his weekend house in the northern Czech Republic, his assistant Sabina Tancecova said. Read More

Comparing Apples and Tea Partiers

By: Nate Beeler 10/18/11 10:11 PM
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Uncovering the horrors of China's 'Great Leap Forward'

By: Mark Hemingway 12/16/10 10:30 AM
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The Cuban Revelation

By: Nate Beeler 09/20/10 12:00 AM
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Why no celebration of 1989, the most liberating year in two milleniums of human history?

By: Mark Tapscott 10/13/09 12:00 AM
Reason Magazine editor Matt Welch poses the arresting question in the headline above in the November number of his rightly esteemed publication. Read More
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