TIME: Have We Evolved To Be Religious?
We humans have many varieties of religious experience. One of the most common is self-transcendence — a feeling becoming part of something larger, grander and nobler. Most people experience this at least a few times in their lives. When the self thins out and melts away, it not only feels good but it’s also thrilling.
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THE ASSOCIATED PRESS: Officials: White House Offers To Curtail Drones
In a bid to save the CIA's drone campaign against al-Qaida in Pakistan, US officials offered key concessions to Pakistan's spy chief that included advance notice and limits on the types of targets. But the offers were flatly rejected, leaving US-Pakistani relations strained as President Barack Obama prepares to meet Tuesday with Pakistan's prime minister.
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THE WASHINGTON POST: Politicians Giving Religion A Bad Name (OPINION)
Religion in the 2012 presidential election is the topic that will launch a thousand PhD theses. The pre-Vatican II Catholic candidate, Rick Santorum, has risen largely on the support of evangelicals, who, before the Second Vatican Council, often regarded the pope as the Antichrist.
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THE NEW YORK TIMES: Across Africa, Steady Steps Toward Democracy
After 50 years of independence, the path to democracy does not follow an obvious, straight line in this region, just as it did not in the West — the model for most citizens here — where it was centuries in the making.
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REUTERS: Japan Goes Off Script At Nuclear Summit To Slam North Korea
Japan steered off the agenda at a nuclear security summit on Tuesday to hit out at North Korea's plans for a rocket launch next month, as U.S. President Barack Obama cautioned against complacency in dealing with the threat of nuclear terrorism.
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THE NEW YORK TIMES: Michigan Governor Sees Hope For A Deal With Detroit
With time running out on this city’s dismal finances and tensions bubbling over, Gov. Rick Snyder of Michigan said Monday that he was hopeful a deal could still be worked out in the next few days to avoid appointing an outside emergency manager to run Detroit.
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THE MIAMI HERALD: Trayvon Martin’s Death Galvanizes The Nation For Social Justice
Trayvon Martin’s case is creating a new social activism that hasn’t been seen for generations, as protesters demand an arrest of the shooter and the end to racial profiling.
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MOTHER JONES: In Bangladesh, A Battle Between Farmers And Climate Change
Bangladesh was winning the fight against hunger. That is, until climate change came along.
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THE ATLANTIC: Gray Nation: The Very Real Economic Dangers Of An Aging America
Two economists envision a scary -- and scarily realistic -- future where the working population expands slower and slower, and jobless recoveries are the only recoveries we know.
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THE HUFFINGTON POST: Capital Punishment: U.S. Ranks 5th On Global Execution Scale, Amnesty International Reports
The United States was the only Western democracy that executed prisoners last year, even as an increasing number of U.S. states are moving to abolish the death penalty, Amnesty International announced Monday.
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THE HUFFINGTON POST: Justice For Trayvon Martin: Where Are Our White Faith Leaders? (OPINION)
In the halcyon days of the 1960s civil rights movement, no march, protest or demonstration in the South was complete without white ministers, priests and rabbis prominently in the ranks, linking arms with their African American brothers and sisters. Each was acting -- as the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. once described himself -- as a "drum major for justice." Of course, in that era, most of the white clergy were from up North.
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THE HUFFINGTON POST: Jim Yong Kim: Obsession With Corporate Profits 'Worsened The Lives Of Millions'
The man likely to become the next president of the World Bank thinks the global economy's obsessive emphasis on growth, something the World Bank itself has supported, has helped increase poverty and struggle around the world.
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