How can it be that in this time of unprecedented prosperity for many in the United States, between 600,000 and 700,000 Americans are homeless on any given night? And that requests for both emergency shelter and food are on the increase around the country? But in fact, the 1999 Status Report on Hunge
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Dr. Paul Farmer: Medicine and liberation theology
How would a health intervention inspired by liberation theology be different from those with more conventional underpinnings?
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The controversy over Salman Rushdie’s ‘The Satanic Verses’
From 1989: The controversy surrounding ‘The Satanic Mysteries’ is a paradigm of the difficulties that have existed over the centuries between Islam and the West.
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10 reasons to oppose the death penalty
Even the guilty have a right to life, but that is not the only reason to stand against capital punishment.
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Will this prophet be heard? America’s editors on the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.
Vantage Point April 20, 1968: The editors on the death and dream of Martin Luther King, Jr.