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The armed righteous
by Robert C. Koehler ?683 wordsI am in aweof the deadeye imperturbabilityof the armed righteous,who look upon the world’s sufferingand see targets. . . . This is a fragment of a poem (“Vigil”) I wrote 25 years ago, in response to the “vigil” some gun-rights advocates held in front of a school in Columbine, Colorado, while…
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Trump’s Bromance Dream Undermines Relations with South Korea
by Mel Gurtov 469 words A South Korean Peace Initiative Likely to Go Nowhere South Korean’s President Lee Jae Myung used the occasion of the country’s Liberation Day, which marks the end of Japan’s colonial rule, to propose to North Korea that the two Koreas officially end the state of war between them that has…
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How riding the subway as a kid changed the way I see the world
by Sarena Neyman 933 words It was 1974. The Bronx was burning. Abandoned cars littered the streets, and New York City teetered on the brink of bankruptcy. I’m still surprised my overprotective Holocaust-survivor parents let their preteen daughter ride the subway to school every day, but somehow they did. For five years—from eighth grade through…