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What do you think the results of the Massachusetts Senate primary mean for voters and future elections?

Sen. Ed Markey (D-MA) is all but certain to secure a third term in the November general election after clinching the Massachusetts Senate Democratic primary Tuesday against the younger, more centrist Rep. Seth Moulton (D-MA). The race was called for Markey at 8:31 p.m. by the Associated Press. He garnered 74.1% to Moulton’s 25.9% with […]

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The End of American Sanctuary

The article explores the diminishing concept of American sanctuary, examining how changing policies and societal attitudes are reshaping the landscape for marginalized communities in the U.S.

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Healthcare

Inside Moderna’s Personalized Cancer Vaccine

a16z General Partner Jorge Conde sits down with Moderna CEO Stéphane Bancel to discuss a major milestone for mRNA technology: positive Phase 3 results from Moderna and Merck’s individualized treatment for melanoma, after more than a decade of work on personalized cancer vaccines. Stéphane explains how the treatment works by sequencing an individual patient’s tumor and healthy cells, identifying the mutations most relevant to their cancer, and encoding up to 34 of them into an mRNA designed sp...

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Culture

What Wendell Berry Taught Me About Heaven

This piece was adapted from Russell Moore’s newsletter. Subscribe here. When I heard that Wendell Berry had died, my mind flashed back to his kitchen table on a hot Kentucky evening about 15 years ago, where I was as nerve-racked as I have ever been. Since no writer in my lifetime has more shaped my life and Read more. The post What Wendell Berry Taught Me About Heaven appeared first on Christianity Today

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The Ham Loaf Is Plenty. The Workers Are Few.

Eleven minutes before the start of lunch service at Salem Lutheran Church Dining Hall, a woman inside the screened-in cafeteria orders a girl to make sure all six tables get a final scrubbing. “Get off your phone,” the woman says. “We are a church, so hospitality is top of the line for us.” A few Read more. The post The Ham Loaf Is Plenty. The Workers Are Few. appeared first on Christianity Today

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Society

How America Valorizes Homeless Freedom—and Ignores Real Need

This series on homelessness is what journalists call an explainer. If you’ve been reading along week by week, by now you know much about the facts of homelessness, including both its personal and societal causes. Now we’re getting to proposed solutions—and I’ll lay groundwork with a brief survey of the long disposition in American culture Read more. The post How America Valorizes Homeless Freedom—and Ignores Real Need appeared first on Christianity Today

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