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Brooke McKean

Opinion Editor

Brooke McKean has written 27 articles.

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August 8, 2007
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Profiting from your illnesses and injuries »

July 25, 2007
Backlash from CNN's blatant critique of Michael Moore's Sicko during Wolf Blitzer's Situation Room has left both parties in the midst of an intense Internet quarrel. However, the debate hasn't emphasized the most critical problem addressed in Moore's new film: corporate control of our health care.

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July 18, 2007

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July 11, 2007
What should be the top priority of the U.S. Congress?

World Bank candidate not fit for the job »

June 1, 2007
Once again, the Bush administration has elected an official unprepared for the job. For example, John Bolton, who once said it wouldn't matter if a few floors of the United Nations building were blown up, was our recent U.S. representative to the U.N. Paul Wolfowitz was elected World Bank chief, although his only experience is in U.S. politics.

SPOTLIGHT: Pike Place Market »

May 31, 2007
It's the tourist spot every town has, the streets are crowded throughout the weekend and it seems that you're getting ripped off at every shop at which you stop. But there is more to Pike Place Market than immediately meets the eye. Despite the fact it's aimed at tourists, there are treasures to be found for Seattleites.

Oprah's school misses the point »

May 25, 2007
Oprah Winfrey's new $40 million school is a vision detached from reality. The South African school, although an admirable dream, will not help Africa escape poverty.

To all the phenomenal women »

May 17, 2007
I was trying on bathing suits this weekend, and I was again reminded why I hate preparing for summer. The months before summer are an unpleasant reminder to girls that they'll soon be exposing the majority of their skin to the world.

Wal-mart makes a difference »

May 11, 2007
Is Wal-Mart an evil blood-sucking corporation or a savior to the third world?

The poor are richer than we think »

May 4, 2007
Poverty is a bad word. Poor, helpless, marginal and powerless are all terms to describe 80 percent of the world's population. Looking at the majority as "poor" and "helpless" only generates misconceptions about a group of people who understand life more than the average American ever will.

Women trapped in a cycle of abuse »

April 13, 2007
The death of Rebecca Griego due to a domestic dispute brought back memories from my childhood. Although her case was extreme, the impact and prevalence of domestic violence is often ignored, to the detriment of women and children nationwide.

Accepting cultural dichotomies »

April 6, 2007
While Afghan women can now legally vote, attend school and walk in public without a burqa, little has changed for women living in the Pashtun regions of Afghanistan since the Taliban's fall.

Staff Editorial: Dear Rebecca Jane Griego, »

April 4, 2007

Children fighting adult wars »

March 30, 2007
Ishmael Beah, speaking at the Paris conference on child soldiers in February, was abducted into a rebel group in Sierra Leone at age 13. He said that killing is "as easy as drinking a glass of water."

Getting IDed on the national level »

March 9, 2007
"You had to live &mdash; did live, from habit that became instinct &mdash; in the assumption that every sound you made was overheard ..."

Remembering the forgotten »

March 1, 2007
"I started to shout to my husband to run from the house. They shot him as he stepped from the door."

The global word game »

February 21, 2007
Will technology bring the world closer together? Will globalization end poverty? Or, as some have suggested, will globalization bring corporate and Western imperialism?

Sex trafficking under the radar in America »

February 9, 2007
Slavery is long from over in this country. People are no longer forced to spend laborious hours on a plantation in bondage (at least not at the same rates), but thousands of women and young children enter the United States each year in an equally disturbing form of slavery.

The rising costs of oil consumption »

February 1, 2007
For the sake of the environment, declining oil reserves and future generations, oil and gas should be expensive. The price of oil will indefinitely rise, as it is a scarce resource and predicted to decline rapidly in the next 50 to 100 years.

Russia's growing political power »

January 25, 2007
Russian politics is a messy affair. But signals of just how messy and dangerous Russia can be have risen in recent months. As The Economist recently published, "Is it time to use the f-word?"

China's sway not an ocean away »

January 19, 2007
An army one billion strong. A vengeful dictator determined to take power from the United States. An economic and political giant.

Cubans hold key to uncertain future »

January 12, 2007
The reign of Fidel Castro is nearing its end, not by the hands of the United States but due to Castro's own bad health.

Calling for change in developing nations »

January 5, 2007
What a lot of people don't realize is these secondhand phones are making an important difference in the Third World.

The radicals are coming, the radicals are coming »

December 6, 2006
Latin America's masses are demanding change across the region.

Let's talk about sex (and AIDS) »

November 29, 2006
Friday, Dec. 1 is World AIDS Day. Celebrate by wearing a condom.

A bottle of water, a world of problems »

November 22, 2006
Each morning, the average college student gets up (probably after 9 a.m.), turns on the light, goes to the bathroom, showers, makes a cup of coffee and hurries to school.

Not the opposites you would think »

November 15, 2006
While the left rejoices over the Democrats' election sweep and the right bows its head in frustration, have there been any real change in American policy? Not really.

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