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The New Generation Gap

Joseph E. Stiglitz Project Syndicate
The lives of both old and young, as they are now lived, are different. Their pasts are different, and so are their prospects.

Friday Nite Videos -- March 25, 2016

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See Something, Say Something: No to Bigotry. Tracy Chapman | Talkin' bout a Revolution. Sanders 'Puts a Bird on It.' John Oliver: Border Wall. Republican Tax Plan.

The Passion of the Bureaucrats

Tim Parks London Review of Books
It is striking how many Catholic organisations seem to do a whole range of lucrative things they were never set up to do, while still enjoying tax exemption as religious institutions. On closing these books many readers will feel that the only way out of the Vatican impasse would be to wind up the territory's anomalous statehood, hand it over to the Italian government and free the Church and above all Pope Francis to get on with their Christian mission. Right...