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Other Futures, Another Past

Other Futures, Another Past When the pandemic began, Albanian philosopher Lea Ypi decided to use her time in lockdown to try something new. Instead of the big academic book about the meaning of freedom that she had been planning to write, she composed a memoir about growing up during the collapse of Communism in Albania. “Mostly written from a closet in Berlin,” as she would later put it, her book Free: Coming of Age in the End of History was her attempt “to muse about my grandmother’s words:...

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Letters | Love for liberation theology

Letters | Love for liberation theology Enabling a New Perspective Liberation theology would never have achieved a global reach without the intelligent work—always attentive to the signs of the times—of Robert Ellsberg and Orbis Books (“Publishing for a World Church,” October). He demonstrated that genuine, serious theology exists in Latin America, Asia, and Africa. This theology is characterized by having one foot in theological scholarship and the other in work with the poor and oppressed. W...

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Healthcare

What should our community do to address the rising cancer rates among younger people?

New major research has found that cases of several different kinds of cancer have risen sharply among young people in England, the US, and in the Netherlands. The number of people under the age of 50 diagnosed with prostate cancer in England has quadrupled since 2001. Researchers aren't exactly sure why there's been such an increase but say the broad reason could be linked to a growing rate of obesity, poor diets and a lack of exercise. FRANCE 24's Sharon Gaffney speaks with Jon Shelton, Head of cancer intelligence at Cancer Research UK

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How can we better support candidates who face violence while campaigning?

A candidate for Congress in Arizona on Wednesday said she was raped in August as she repaired campaign signs. Bernadette Greene-Placentia, the Democratic candidate for the state’s 8th Congressional District, said she was sexually assaulted around 2 a.m. on a Friday evening that month in a parking lot as she carried out her nighttime routine […]

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