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Israel’s offensive in Lebanon is threatening the tenuous truce
The official appointment of coup leader Min Aung Hlaing as president is likely to hasten a shift within the bloc
Matt Yglesias & the Legend of Big Muggy. Everyone’s favorite contrarian blogger searches for a mythical giant turtle in the Amazon, risking life and limb in his quest to bring sensible centrism to cryptid zoology. Under assignment from a mysterious new thinktank, our hero travels to the rainforest in search of the legendary beast. Dogged by radical climate activists, libertarian seasteaders making a go of it on the world’s largest river, and a mercenary team sent by the Brookings Institution ...
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While America and Iran negotiate a ceasefire, Beirut remains under siege
If this is “total and complete victory,” imagine what failure looks like
Phillipson’s big ambitions were reduced to performative stunts Source
Dan Levy’s first scripted series since “Schitt’s Creek” is another fish-out-of-water comedy—this one set in a very different milieu
Twenty-six years ago, John Cardinal O’Connor launched Dorothy Day’s candidacy for sainthood: “It has long been my contention that Dorothy Day is a saint—not a ‘gingerbread’ saint or a. The post Dorothy Day’s Complicated Cause for Sainthood appeared first on First Things