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Mitre Night on the South Side In 2005, when the Chicago White Sox made their first successful World Series run since 1917, The New York Times ran a Sunday piece headlined “In White Sox Nation, the Borders Are Secure.” I have read few things that comprehended so well “this strange, severed city” where Robert Francis Prevost, like me, was born into White Sox fandom. The White Sox have (despite early and maliciously false reports that he cheers for the Cubs) embraced their most infallible fan wa...
The Wolf and the Shepherd When I was young, I fell asleep as soon as my head hit the pillow. The next thing I knew, it was morning. A friend once told me, “That’s a blessing.” Now I am older and on most nights I wake at some point. I may lie awake just briefly or for as long as an hour or two. On the whole, I don’t mind it. I figure it’s time God has given me for prayer. I’ve developed a routine. First, I count the day’s blessings. Then I pray, slowly and intentionally, a Glory Be, an Our Fat...
What’s in the Cards? I sat in my friend Adeena’s Harlem apartment last summer, holding a deck of tarot cards. In response to her query about the state of her love life, I pulled the final card and set it in front of her: the Devil. A card that questions a person’s ability to discern whether a risky decision is self-liberating or self-limiting seemed like a generous interpretation of her “situationship” with a man who wore “God Is Dead” T-shirts under silver chain necklaces with crucifixes. Ad...
"The West Bank is at breaking point" - the words of a top UN official at a Security Council meeting in New York last night. Settler violence has been ramping up. Two Palestinian homes have been under siege with the weekend, with families warning that their supplies are running out. The IDF has denounced the “illegal, reprehensible and unacceptable” establishment of settler outposts inside West Bank villages but doesn't seem to be doing much to dismantle them. Why is the violence on the rise? ...
Khabib Nurmagomedov is one of the greatest fighters of all time, who retired from the UFC undefeated with a perfect 29-0 record. We did this conversation entirely in Russian. It’s translated and dubbed into English. Both language audio tracks (and subtitles) are available on YouTube. Here, only the English audio is available. We worked hard to make it enjoyable to listen to, by carefully dubbing the translation using voice-cloning, as we’ve done for previous foreign-language podcasts. Thank y...
Decades of hard-won mediation experience point the way
The article explores how China's economic challenges, including debt and slowing growth, could trigger a global economic crisis, impacting markets and economies worldwide.