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Devil in the Black City
BY GABE RUBIN In any other year, Chicago’s 506 murders would have been treated as a passing, local travesty. But in the year of Newtown and Aurora, violent death in American urban warzones is finally trendy enough for the New York Times and CNN. President Barack Obama even stopped by his adopted hometown long enough…
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Orphans in the Crossfire
On the surface, the main news story pertaining to U.S.-Russian relations over the past few months has been Russia’s stomach-turning anti-American adoption law that would bar Americans from adopting Russian children. Americans adopt thousands of Russian children each year, many of whom have disabilities and would otherwise suffer in Russia’s Dickensian orphanages. The law’s populist…
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A Sordid Legacy
A Twitter handle and Gucci loafers do not a modernizer make. The announcement of Pope Benedict XVI’s impending resignation (the first in nearly 600 years) forces Catholics, and the world at large, to determine the legacy of a pontiff who served at one of the most trying times in history for the Catholic Church. Caught…
