It’s an ill wind for the future of the region a key player seems so indifferent to the consequences of its action in sowing sectarian division.
Margot Patterson
Margot Patterson has written for a variety of newspapers and magazines in the United States and abroad. Most recently, she worked for the National Catholic Reporter for seven years as Senior Writer and then Opinion and Arts Editor. She lives in the Kansas City area and is the author of Islam Considered: A Christian Perspective (2008).
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Who will be held accountable for the death of Tamir Rice?
Protests and other forms of public pressure may be the only way to bring some measure of justice to victims of police violence.
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Who’s afraid of Syrian refugees?
Own good fortune seems to have made us not generous and confident but anxious and apprehensive.
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How do we relate to those loved and lost?
Righting a social wrong seems a fine way of keeping faith with someone gone, but there are many other ways people discover.
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The Royals winning the World Series has united the city like nothing I can remember.
A remarkable spirit of fraternity reigned in Kansas City on Tuesday. Young and old, black and white, city-dwellers and suburbanites came together to celebrate their team and their city.
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Foreign policy revelations from the presidential debates
The presidential debates tell us a lot about the candidates’ personalities, but watch enough of them and you can also find some striking and unexpected statements about policy.
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An End in Sight?
The longest running embargo in modern history has manifestly failed.
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Sex abuse survivor revives one-man play during pope’s visit to New York City
‘Every time I do the play, I revisit the whole thing. I get to re-experience it as a different person, as an older person, hopefully as a more mature and wiser person.’
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‘No room at the inn,’ not the Christian response to refugee crisis
The influx of refugees to Europe is becoming a defining crisis of our time.