To Comfort The Afflicted
And Afflict The Comfortable

To Comfort The Afflicted And Afflict The Comfortable

Saturday, May 18, 2024

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Watch Out: The Next Steps In The Fight Against Campus Rape

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BY SUSAN ESTRICH The first time I ever went “online” to do a search on the “World Wide Web” [yes, we used to call it that], I figured I’d pick a subject I knew a lot about and see what was there. So I typed in the word “rape” – a subject I learned about […]

As Iraq Implodes, Hawks Still Have No Plan – Except ‘Blame Obama’

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BY JOE CONASON Divided between neoconservative ultra-hawks and libertarian isolationists, today’s Republican Party is hardly a steady influence on American foreign policy. But there is one thing that can be reliably expected from every right-wing faction in Washington: Whenever disaster threatens, they eagerly cast blame on President Barack Obama – and utter any falsehood that […]

The Power Of 3,607

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BY SUSAN ESTRICH That’s how many people it took to bring down House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, doom immigration reform and leave all but the most tea-sodden Republicans quaking. No, it wasn’t the Democrats who did it. Various complicated analyses of voting patterns confirm what anyone who has ever tried to convince even their own […]

What Lurks In A Child’s Online World?

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BY FROMA HARROP What is the most shocking takeaway from the story of the two 12-year-olds who repeatedly stabbed their friend – nearly to death – on the imagined orders of a fantasy character? Is it the preteens’ apparent disconnect from the truth of what they were doing? One of the assailants childishly described her […]

Speaking Truth To Power

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BY SUSAN ESTRICH One of the hardest things to understand about the whole Bowe Bergdahl exchange is how the White House could be so hopelessly tone deaf as to not understand what was going to happen next. They knew that the circumstances surrounding Bergdahl’s capture raised serious questions as to whether he had deserted his […]