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

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    Creeps Hunt Kids On Social Media

    Columnists Froma Harrop - 0

    We have entered a new social media hell, where online creeps run sadistic schemes targeting high school kids. Since late 2021, their ruses have driven at least 20 young people, mostly boys, to take their lives. One victim was a 17-year-old star athlete at Marquette Senior High School in Michigan named Jordan DeMay. As reported […]

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    When Moral Hygiene Becomes A Lethal Mistake

    Columnists Joe Conason - 0

    Historical analogies rarely carry much weight, especially in a time when so much about politics has changed so rapidly. To compare what is happening in 2024 to events that occurred over half a century earlier hardly seems useful. It mostly isn’t. And yet the election of 1968, whose outcome proved disastrous for America and the […]

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    Did Legalized Abortion Lead To Lower Crime Rates?

    Columnists Froma Harrop - 0

    Growing restrictions on the right to an abortion have revived talk of what many still regard as a highly controversial theory. It holds that the legalization of abortion in 1973 reduced the number of unwanted children, who might have been at higher risk of committing serious crimes. And that explained the sharp drop in the […]

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    Where’s George Orwell Today? Texas!

    Columnists Jim Hightower - 0

    If you think the GOP’s Congress of Clowns represents the fringiest, freakiest pack of politicos that MAGA-world can hurl at us – you haven’t been to Texas. It’s widely known, of course, that Sen. Ted Cruz, Gov. Greg Abbott and most other top Republican officials here are obsequious Trump acolytes. Thus, Texas is infamously racing […]

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    Trump’s Luck And Mojo Run Low

    Columnists Jamie Stiehm - 0

    At last, former President Donald Trump is on trial, a criminal defendant for election interference, in silencing a sordid brush with Stormy Daniels. The judge, Juan Merchan, made clear he’s in charge here. A harbinger of spring light in the American soul after a long winter occupation? Let it be so. April is turning out […]

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