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Dec 17 2012

Quintessentially

Why is the shooter always male?

By , Monday, Dec 17, 2012 11:00 AM CST   A common demand made of socially marginalized groups is that they take responsibility for the bad acts of their members.  These demands…  [more]

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Dec 17 2012

America is truly exceptional

What makes America’s gun culture totally unique in the world, in four charts

By Max Fisher, December 15, 2012 at 2:14 pm   The deadly shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary is provoking another heated round of the same conversation…  [more]

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Dec 16 2012

A rare moment of national self-reflection

Newtown shooting: when it comes to guns and violence, America is like a failed state

Observer editorial, Saturday 15 December 2012   In Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness the character of Kurtz, at his life’s end, has a moment of…  [more]

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Dec 14 2012

Holy chapter in the Gospel of America’s Goodness

Zero Dark Thirty: CIA hagiography, pernicious propaganda

By , Friday 14 December 2012 10.03 EST   I’ve now seen “Zero Dark Thirty”. Before getting to that: the controversy triggered this week by my commentary on the debate over …  [more]

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Dec 09 2012

Islam saved Jewry

So, what did the Muslims do for the Jews?

By David J Wasserstein, May 24, 2012   Islam saved Jewry. This is an unpopular, discomforting claim in the modern world. But it is a historical truth. The argument for it…  [more]

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Dec 07 2012

So much for a chastened Republican party

Christian right enforces GOP senators’ vote against UN disabilities treaty

By , Thursday 6 December 2012 10.55 EST   I couldn’t sleep at night if I were a senator and did not vote for this. So said …  [more]

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Dec 04 2012

Nostalgic for the values that existed

Both Arab and Jew lived in the original Palestine. Why, Moshe Dayan asks, can’t they do so again?

By Robert Fisk, Sunday 2 December 2012   “I was born here and I have a right to live here – the…  [more]

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