Round-up

Op-Ed commemorating the 20th anniversary of the pro-democracy Tiananmen square protests and lamenting just how far China’s regressed since those days of heady progressivism.

There’s a coin shortage in Buenos Aires, Argentina. “For the average Bonaerense, everyday transactions now entail a complicated calculation of where coins can be acquired and when they will be needed.” The article makes some interesting points about the role confidence in the market (or, rather, the lack of it) had in creating this crisis.

Amir Taheri criticizes Obama’s approach to the Islamic world, deeming it anti-reformist and, surprisingly, not close enough to George W. Bush’s.

After escaping the horrors of the slow genocide in West Sudan for the relatively safe refugee camps of Chad, Darfuri women are confronted still by the threat of rape.