“Class haunts people from womb to grave, limiting their ability to flourish and pursue the good life as they define it. Confronted with the reality of our society’s entrenched class system, our national politics in its present state offers three responses. The first response is to deny reality altogether, usually in favor of an anecdote …
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More than 46 million Americans live below the poverty line, and income inequality in the U.S. is at its highest level since the 1920s, according to NBC News, which recently produced an extensive report on the subject. Writer Martha White notes a generational aspect to the problem of poverty and inequality:
Matt Ford of The Atlantic poses a question on the minds of many human rights activists: will Pope Francis speak out against the harsh anti-gay law, and increasingly homophobic tenor of public life in Uganda? He asks that question while examining how anti-gay ideology has become so powerful in Uganda politics and exploring how the …
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The Rt. Rev. C. Andrew Doyle, the Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Texas, issued the following response to the shooting at Ft. Hood.
Poverty porn, the practice of playing up the suffering of needy people to elicit an emotional response, and perhaps a donation, is a knotty problem, writes the blogger Emily Roenigk. In an essay called “5 Reasons Poverty Porn Empowers the Wrong Person” she raises a number of difficult questions. Such as:
Everyday Mysteries.
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