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

Younger Cuban Americans are radically departing from the political views of their elders

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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...

The Supreme court ruled that worker class action suits can use statistical date to prove their case. This was not only a major victory for Tyson workers but also for all workers.

A blanket assertion that the French working-class has shifted to the right is misleading. Rather there has been a “demobilization” of leftwing voters due to the deep crisis of the old industrial structures which has put labor and the left on the defensive. Old Communist strongholds have seen rising voter abstention. Workers vote for the FN in large numbers in regions where leftwing consciousness and organization had been weak.