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Robert David Sullivan is the production editor at America magazine.
West Baltimore residents sweep broken glass and debris outside a store damaged by rioters earlier this week. (CNS photo/Karen Osborne, Catholic Review)
(Un)Conventional Wisdom
Robert David Sullivan
This week residents of Baltimore protested both police brutality and poverty conditions in mostly black inner-city neighborhoods Also the burrito chain Chipotle enormously popular as a slightly more expensive option than poor-folk McDonald rsquo s announced it would limit its use of ingredients
(Un)Conventional Wisdom
Robert David Sullivan
Civic improvement always has its victims.
A mourner pats the hearse holding the casket of Freddie Gray outside New Shiloh Baptist Church in West Baltimore on April 27. (CNS photo/Olivia Obineme, Catholic Review)
(Un)Conventional Wisdom
Robert David Sullivan
Don’t hold your breath waiting for Freddie’s Law.
Death penalty opponents stood in front of the U.S. District Court in Boston on Monday.
(Un)Conventional Wisdom
Robert David Sullivan
It's offensive to say Bostonians oppose the death penalty because it is not cruel enough.
According to Gallup surveys, the belief that a gun makes a home safer has soared since the beginning of the century.
(Un)Conventional Wisdom
Robert David Sullivan
Majority say that protecting gun rights is more important than controlling gun ownership.
Newt Gingrich is calling for more government spending on medical research, but will he stick up for heroic fruit flies?
(Un)Conventional Wisdom
Robert David Sullivan
Newt Gingrich calls for a doubling of the budget for the National Institutes of Health.
Makeshift Memorial for marathon bombing victims at Copley Square, Boston, April 30, 2013.
(Un)Conventional Wisdom
Robert David Sullivan
Jurors must not use the defendant’s ethnicity or religious beliefs against him.
States shaded green get most of their revenue from individual and business income taxes. States shaded yellow get a majority of revenue from sales taxes.
(Un)Conventional Wisdom
Robert David Sullivan
Soak the rich, the sinful, the spendthrifts or the tourists
Keeping welfare recipients away from nail salons (a quintessential neighborhood-based small business) does nothing to foster independence.
(Un)Conventional Wisdom
Robert David Sullivan
Keeping welfare recipients away from nail salons does nothing to foster independence.
Because the Earned Income Tax Credit benefits only wage earners who file taxes, it does not carry the stigma of assistance programs such as food stamps (Image from irs.gov.)
(Un)Conventional Wisdom
Robert David Sullivan
Taxpayers should shift anger from person using food stamps at Walmart to Walmart itself