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What You Earn Correlates With What Your Children Will Earn

On income inequality in America, this comes from Scott Winship: Only 13 percent of children starting in the bottom fifth [of income] will end up in the top two-fifths in adulthood (compared with 63 percent of children who start out … Continue reading

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The 47%: A Powerful New Ad on a Viral Meme

Clever and devastating.

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Is Mitt Romney Sarah Palin in Drag?

Andrew Sullivan wonders whether Mitt Romney might be running on Sarah Palin’s playbook: [A]lmost no press conferences; no account of his faith’s dominant influence on his life; an absence of actual policy proposals . . . And don’t forget his tax … Continue reading

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Robert Wright on Osiris, Jesus, Dives, and Lazarus

Robert Wright on the Egyptian god Osiris and the story of the rich man and Lazarus in Luke: Osiris bears a certain resemblance to Jesus as Christians would later come to conceive him; Osiris inhabited the afterworld and judged the … Continue reading

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Bearing Witness to the Holocaust: Destitute Ghetto Inhabitant in Winter, circa 1940

Source: U.S. Holocaust Museum photo archive

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A Farmer’s Wife and the Powerful Body of a Young Miller: Sexploitation of the Poor in a Marquis de Sade Short Story

At one level, the Marquis de Sade’s short story, “The Lady of the Manor of Longeville, or a Woman’s Revenge,” is a feminist tale, for it tells the story of a woman who outwits her husband by discovering and exposing his adulterous affair, … Continue reading

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“Little Reminder”: A Poem by Santi Tafarella

  When your mother’s belly rose, I did not leave you unmoored,   but bound and docked you by umbilical cord.   And when the floodgates opened, and you washed forth like a turtle, held aloft and helpless in a … Continue reading

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