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Thunder Over Louisville Tehran
by Russell Vandenbroucke 985 words Two Saturdays before the Kentucky Derby draws 150,000 well-heeled men and women to America’s most famous horse race, five times as large a crowd, diverse too, lines the Kentucky and Indiana banks of the Ohio River for North America’s largest annual airshow and fireworks display. Two days before this year’s,
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“Us and them” is obsolete
Winslow Myers 738 words Competitiveness is one of our primary values. Competition runs the world. It orients success in business, or sports—and above all in war. Adversaries seek the transient glory of military advantage. Yet none of our four biggest challenges, the climate emergency, nuclear weapons, the rise of AI, and global pandemics are “us
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Why the separation of church and state is crucial for democracy
by Bob Topper 1210 words During the Age of Reason, the Enlightenment thinkers realized that human reasoning provided a better understanding of our natural world than the explanations found in ancient religions. The Enlightenment spawned Humanism, a non-religious, democratic, and ethical life stance that emphasized human reason, compassion, and scientific inquiry rather than divine intervention. Humanism