NATO: Death by a thousand little spending cuts?
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In post-Gadhafi Libya, life still feels frighteningly frail
Maclean’s reports from Tripoli
Photo gallery: Europe’s unconventional political spouses
Girlfriends, lovers, and working moms and dads
Everest: ’The open graveyard waiting above’
Too many adventurers want to scale the world’s highest peak—even if it means their deaths
Toru Hashimoto, the brash, young mayor of Osaka, is Japan’s most popular politician
Osaka’s mayor is young, media savvy, opposes nuclear power, and is firing up voters
Why today’s Iran nuclear talks in Baghdad come with a lot of baggage
And why Washington and Tehran must learn to trust each other nonetheless
California looks to ban ’pray the gay away’ therapy
A new bill wants to ban ’conversion therapy’
Tripoli vs. The Hague: two courts vie to try Gadhafi’s son
Libya and the International Criminal Court are at war—over who gets to stage a trial for Saif al-Islam Gadhafi
One giant leap for democracy in Egypt
Despite the arrests and suppression of dissent, the current presidential race shows how far the country has come
The taxman goes global
Tax Inspectors Without Borders pledges to fight tax evasion in developing countries