Gerry was not a rebel. He was a questioner. And we will miss him.
Dispatches
Walmart: Always Low Salaries? Yep, Still Pretty Much Always.
When you think about Walmart and the deep dark cave of crazy that is Black Friday you can rsquo t help but recall mayhem and violence mdash mobs rushing the store in the middle of the night fighting one another for toys and video game consoles even pulling knives or guns nbsp Over the last ten
Lost In a Dark Place: Public Radio’s Disturbing “Serial”
Podcast investigates case of Baltimore teen convicted of killing his girlfriend in 1999.
Pope Francis reminds G20 leaders of ‘responsibility for the poor and the marginalized’
Pope Francis has sent a letter to the Prime Minister of Australia Tony Abbott who will chair the Summit of the Heads of State and Government of the world rsquo s 20 largest economies that will be held in Brisbane Nov 15-16 The G20 includes the 19 major developed and developing economies of the w
Blowing The Dismount: Last Week Tonight Fudges Its Lottery Story
Lottos do give money to schools. That doesn’t mean they’re worth it.
Pope Appoints Archbishop Gallagher as Secretary for Relations with States, Replaces Cardinal Burke with Archbishop Mamberti
In a series of top level changes in the Roman Curia Pope Francis has appointed the English-born Archbishop Paul Richard Gallagher as Secretary for Relations with States ndash the third highest position in the Vatican nbsp nbsp nbsp He succeeds the Moroccan-born Archbishop Dominque Mamberti wh
Pope Francis revises resignation norms for bishops and cardinals
Cardinal heads now ‘obligated’ to present resignation at 75.
Election Los Angeles: A Tale of Two Catholics
Tomorrow the biggest and perhaps most difficult election in Los Angeles is between two Catholic Democrats as Sheila Kuehl 73 vies against Bobby Shriver 60 for the open seat on the L A County Board of Supervisors Both Kuehl and Shriver were raised Roman Catholic though Kuehl having had a Je
Austerity and Europe Bite Britain
Tremors in European political life are nothing new nor is mass disaffection with conventional politics but what we rsquo re seeing at the moment speaks of a larger malaise Europeans in large numbers are not only questioning the remote and bureaucratic political institutions of the European Union
GamerGate: A Story about Video Games that You Need to Know About
It probably would not surprise anyone to hear that one of the biggest stories in the video gaming industry right now involves men not knowing how to properly treat women But what exactly that entails will almost certainly stun you In 2013 a video game developer named Zoe Quinn released a choose-you
