responsibility
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Being Donald Trump means never having to say you’re sorry.
Ever notice how many of our prisons are called “correctional facilities” or “penitentiaries”? That’s no accident. We want those who break the law to repent; we want them to be “corrected,” not just incarcerated; we…
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Unselfish Public Service?
As we get learn more about the indictment of Senator Robert Menendez, it’s worth remembering that virtue has long been one of the cardinal values of functioning democratic states. Almost three hundred years ago, the…
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Eyes on the prize
I was reading a friend’s posts–thoughtful, concerned, humane, powerful. One of her “friends” then posted a vitriolic attack on her. The attack was baseless, of course, but what’s fascinating is how that attack set in…
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Not with a bang but a whimper
Watching the Gohmerts and Nuneses seek to turn black into white and up into down, watching Robert Mueller stick fastidiously to his narrow and apparently legalistic conception of his duty when given the opportunity to…
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Why we should care: Primo Levi’s poem, from Survival in Auschwitz
You who live safeIn your warm houses,You who find on returning in the evening,Hot food and friendly faces: Consider if this is a man Who works in the mud Who does not know peace Who…
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Self-defense?
At least nine dead in an Israeli attempt to block ships carrying humanitarian aid to Gaza. That’s bad enough. But the twisted logic of the Israeli government on the botched interception of the six boats…