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No spring for Egypt’s Christians
feature Egypt’s 8 million Coptic Christians have faced increased persecution and mob violence, and 100,000 Copts have already fled the country, said Ross Douthat at The New York Times.
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Viewpoint: George Packer
feature From Foreign Affairs: “Inequality creates a lopsided economy, which leaves the rich with so much money that they can binge on speculation, and leaves the middle class...
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Capitalism is killing the middle class
feature Few like to admit it, but globalization and technology have triggered an economic revolution that’s “hostile to the middle-class majority,” said Chrystia Freeland at NYTimes.com.
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Buying local is bad for the planet
feature The “first-world food fetishes” of the Whole Foods crowd aren’t always good for the environment, and they hurt the world’s poor, said Charles Kenny at Foreign Policy.
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How morality became obsolete
feature “I guess what makes something right is how I feel about it,” is a typical refrain, said David Brooks at The New York Times.
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Viewpoint: David Brooks
feature From The New York Times: “Fitness inequality is acceptable. It is perfectly fine to wear tight workout sweats to show the world that...
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Dehumanizing Hispanics as ‘illegals’
feature It’s “the latest in a long line of euphemisms that politicians use to signal their antipathy to a reviled racial or ethnic group, in this case, Latinos,” said Peter Beinart at TheDailyBeast.com.
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The pedophile nobody suspects
feature In most molestation cases, the predators have true affection for kids, and seek a role as their champions, said Frank Bruni at The New York Times.
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The lesson from Kim’s divorce
feature Kardashian's farcical marriage has finally drawn back the veil on “reality TV’s fairy-tale narratives,” and exposed them as “hollow and manipulative” shams, said Jennifer L. Pozner at TheDailyBeast.com.
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Viewpoint: Alexandra Petri
feature From in The Washington Post: “The wealth gap between young and old Americans has never been so huge. Households headed by 65-and-ups have 47 times the net worth...
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Telling the truth about the deficit
feature If we are to be serious about the deficit, we’ll have to accept both large, painful spending cuts and substantial tax increases, said Robert J. Samuelson at The Washington Post.
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What teens don’t know about Google
feature Other studies have also shown that students really don’t bother trying to assess the credibility of information found online, said Clive Thompson at Wired.com.
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Privacy dies with a whimper
feature It may sound Orwellian, but GPS tracking is just the next step in the rapid erosion of privacy that followed 9/11, said Jonathan Turley at The Washington Post.
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Gingrich’s total lack of scruples
feature Throughout his career, Gingrich has demonstrated an almost total lack of “character, temperament, and personal rectitude,” said Jennifer Rubin at the WashingtonPost.com.
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