Magazine

June 1, 2015

v.142 n.10

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Kill Chain

Andrew Cockburn's 'Kill Chain' examines the disastrous political effects of the U.S. military's targeted assassination practices--and the true motives behind them.

By Andrew J. Bacevich

May 18, 2015

Continuing the Conversation

Article

Old News: The World Is Not Christian

Unlike past Eurocentric taxonomies of world religions, the latest Norton anthology aims to let six major, living, international religions speak...in their own words.

By Molly Farneth

May 18, 2015

Article

Fun While It Lasted

The dirty little secret of major-league banking is that it is not very profitable. And slowly, but inexorably, the behemoth American banks are shrinking.

May 18, 2015

Article

Road to Nowhere

From "Mad Men"'s central narrative vision—a conjuring of 1960s advertisers at work and play—some plotlines meandered this way and that, only to hit a dead end.

By Celia Wren

May 18, 2015

Media

Television

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The Republic of Imagination

Iranian author Azar Nafiri defends the value of canonical American literature—its imagination and humanity—against Common Core, market analyses, and Babbitt.

May 14, 2015

Article

Contraception & Honesty

The starting point for the unraveling of Catholic confidence in the church’s sexual ethics is contraception. Shouldn't the next synod finally meet the issue head-on?

By Peter Steinfels

May 14, 2015

U.S. Catholicism

Pope Francis

Secularism and Modernity

Contraception mandate

Article

Last Word: In Deed

At the 126-year old Catholic Church in Freddie Gray's neighborhood, where structural sin can be fatal, parishioners find ways to work for justice, not just charity.

May 14, 2015

Continuing the Conversation

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Poem | Celebration

It picks up the speed of streaming recall / and takes us off post-equinox able to signify. // Or so I guess: Ninety is old, I / keep telling myself...

May 14, 2015

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Letters | Theists vs. Atheists

Readers continue to discuss the “kinder, gentler atheism” (or perhaps agnosticism) espoused by Michael Ruse in his book 'Atheism.'

By The Editors

May 14, 2015

U.S. Catholicism

Academic Freedom

Ecumenism

Secularism and Modernity

Theology

Article

Rescue Mission

The European Union's intent to address migration from Africa comes as a welcome if belated development in a crisis that has been crying for moral leadership.

By The Editors

May 12, 2015

Article

Labor Gains

In Indiana there are plenty of service-sector jobs. But they don't pay nearly as well as the manufacturing jobs Indiana has lost. Can organizing address that?

May 7, 2015

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June 1, 2015

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Kill Chain

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Old News: The World Is Not Christian

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Fun While It Lasted

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Road to Nowhere

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The Republic of Imagination

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Contraception & Honesty

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Last Word: In Deed

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Poem | Celebration

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Letters | Theists vs. Atheists

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Rescue Mission

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Labor Gains

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