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Police Brutality!
The incident was over in a matter of minutes. But two weeks after the beating of a black motorist by Los Angeles policemen was videotaped by an eyewitness, it had led to arrests, probes by local, county and federal organizations and a Justice Department review of law-enforcement violence across the nation
Races: War in Little Egypt
Brief History: Video-Game Violence
Man Of The Year: Lyndon B. Johnson, The Paradox of Power
Transcript: President Obama’s Remarks on Egypt
Tucson Tragedy: Is Gun Control a Dead Issue?
The Low Road to Protest
A Brief History of the Uighurs
The violence that has claimed at least 156 lives in the western Chinese region of Xinjiang this week is rooted in long-standing grievances among China’s Uighur minority. The Turkic-speaking Muslim Uighurs were traditionally the dominant ethnic group in the region whose Mandarin name, Xinjiang, means simply “New Frontier” perhaps a reflection of the fact that the region was only brought under Beijing’s control in its entirety during the 19th century rein of the Qing dynasty.