To Comfort The Afflicted
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To Comfort The Afflicted And Afflict The Comfortable

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    Time To Get Rude

    Columnists Jim Hightower - 0

    When a fox attacks a hen house, is it uncivil for the hens to raise a ruckus? Two Supreme Court justices say it is. Elevating collegiality above social justice, right-wing extremist Amy Coney Barrett and progressive jurist Sonia Sotomayor have jointly been hailing America’s top court as a model of genteel political discourse, claiming that […]

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    A Tale Of Two Contagions

    Columnists Jamie Stiehm - 0

    Real life froze four Marches ago. Clocks stood still. Memory turned into before and after. The Covid pandemic claimed more than a million American lives. We don’t speak of it much, but we carry a deep sense of loss for all we missed. The trips we didn’t take. The friends or lovers we never met. […]

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    Are These Republicans Mocking Social Conservatives?

    Columnists Froma Harrop - 0

    South Carolina Rep. Nancy Mace was in Washington telling a story about how her “fiance” wanted more action in bed earlier that day. “And I was like, ‘No baby, we don’t got time for that this morning.’” To which she added, “He can wait. I’ll see him later tonight.” The occasion was a Christian prayer […]

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    Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s Farce – And Our Tragedy

    Columnists Joe Conason - 0

    When a neophyte named Edward Moore Kennedy first ran for the Senate in 1962 at barely 30 years old, his primary opponent delivered a debate quip that still echoes. “If your name were Edward Moore,” cracked Ed McCormack, then Massachusetts attorney general, “your candidacy would be a joke.” Ted Kennedy won that primary, ascended to […]

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    Illustrating Paths Toward Peace In Times Of War

    Columnists Jamie Stiehm - 0

    Accepting the Best Actor Academy Award for his role as Robert Oppenheimer, Cillian Murphy dedicated his Oscar to “the peacemakers” in our post-atomic bomb world. That struck a chord close to home. My mother wrote the book on women peacemakers. An Austrian aristocratic novelist. A Guatemalan indigenous peasant. A Pakistani girl. The Chicago founder of […]

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