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Ross Douthat: Can the left be happy?

A crucial moment in the development of modern left-wing culture arrived in 2013 when Ta-Nehisi Coates, reading books about the ravages and aftermath of World War II by historians Tony Judt and Timothy Snyder, realized that he didn’t believe in God.
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Commentary: Conspiracy theories fly after Baltimore bridge collapse. It wasn’t always this way

I vividly remember the gruesome wreckage of the United States’ worst aviation disaster. I was among the first reporters to see the burning remnants of a DC-10 near O’Hare International Airport on May 25, 1979. The crash killed all 271 people on board and two people on the ground. What I don’t recall are absurd conspiracy theories about why American Airlines Flight 191 to Los Angeles dropped ...
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Stephen L. Carter: TikTok ban is Congress’ latest moral panic

We are living in the age of moral panic. We look around, we see a problem, and we rush to outlaw something. Ban TikTok! cry members of Congress. Ban social media for kids! says the state of Florida. Ban immigrants, ban hate speech, ban imports, ban union shops. Part of what makes a moral panic a moral panic is that fear overwhelms any effort at moderation. Politicians follow the panic. And ...
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Commentary: Nuclear families aren’t the ‘traditional’ ones. The Bible is full of blended and chosen families

In this election season, our newsfeeds will be flooded with stories about the culture wars. In the 1980s, when I was growing up, these issues were shaped by what was then a new force in politics, leaders of the religious right. As a kid in this era, I was strangely fascinated with the radio show “Focus on the Family,” a precursor to the booming right-wing media landscape that exists today.
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David Brooks: Why is technology mean to me?

It is never easy to re-examine one’s fundamental convictions, but now I am forced to question my previous disbelief in the existence of Satan. I am compelled to confront this ugly possibility by the fact that from time to time my electronic devices seem to fall under demonic possession.
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Paul Krugman: Why Some Billionaires Will Back Trump

Donald Trump’s campaign is reportedly strapped for cash. Small-dollar donations are running far behind their 2020 pace. Big Trump rallies aren’t yielding his biggest cash hauls. Some large-dollar donors are hesitant, in part because they worry (with good reason) that their money will be used not for the campaign but to pay his legal bills. So he has been wooing right-wing billionaires.
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Sue Lani Madsen: Deconstructing the future for Mary’s Place

It is hard to overlook the big white house at 104 W. Eighth Ave. on the way to the front door of Sacred Heart Medical Center. The challenge to saving “Mary’s Place” is location, location, location. To the dismay of Spokane historic preservation aficionados, Mary’s son and heir George Alex took out a demolition permit last year.
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