Voices

Jim McDermott, S.J., is an associate editor at America.
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Days before Christmas in the southeastern Mexican state of Guerrero Father Lopez Gorostieta was kidnapped from a local seminary He was found on Christmas Day having been strangled to death No party has claimed responsiblity nor is there any obvious reason for the deed But a month earlier Ugand
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Police officer will not be prosecuted for shooting death of African American man.
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I’d like to say what unsettled me about Serial was its lack of finality.
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As much as we might hope that show business is a show—that is art—it’s also a business.
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New terms from nightmarish hellscape of cultural devastation that is texting/online lingo
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American companies exercise little oversight because few here is demanding that they do.
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Twitter campaign calls for not just well-worded political indignation but concrete action.
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Later this week the President of the United States the most important person on the planet will pardon a turkey Now if this were quot Scandal quot this tradition might actually make sense insofar as it would give Fitz yet another reason to demand Liv come and visit The scene President Fitz
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What does the next week hold for you Time with family Food-based comas Rioting in malls over things you could buy for less on Amazon Or maybe stuck working even on Thanksgiving for poor wages and or in rotten conditions just so that the rest of us can buy all those things this holiday for less
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California looks poised to especially gain from President Obama rsquo s executive order on immigration to be announced in a speech tonight At 2 6 million California has the highest number of undocumented immigrants in the country According to a recent USC study over half of those immigrants hav