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Christianity

Former Pastor: Those Who Leave Christianity Are “Not in Open Rebellion”

The Christian Post is currently publishing pieces about people who walked away from Christianity (much to the disappointment of the site’s own commenters). They just published an interview with Ryan Bell, the former pastor of a Seventh-day Adventist church …

bubmagOctober 30, 2019

New York City

Why New York Can’t Pick Up Its Trash

The reforms have broad support. The sanitation commissioner, Kathryn Garcia, deserves praise for leading the reorganization. Labor unions and environmental groups have pushed hard for the plan. It has also received support from unlikelier groups, like the Rea…

bubmagOctober 30, 2019

Hrant Dink

US House overwhelmingly votes to recognize Armenian genocide

Photograph: Karen Minasyan/AFP/Getty Images The US House of Representatives voted overwhelmingly on Tuesday to recognize the 1915 Armenian genocide of a century ago, stepping into a fraught historical debate at a particularly tense moment for the US-Turkey r…

bubmagOctober 30, 2019

Hrant Dink

In historic vote, US House recognises ‘Armenian genocide’

WASHINGTON: The US House of Representatives passed a resolution Tuesday (Oct 29) officially recognising the "Armenian genocide," a symbolic but unprecedented move that angered Turkey amid already-heightened tensions with Washington. Cheers and applause erupt…

bubmagOctober 30, 2019

Paris

Trudeau hires Anne McLellan as western adviser – The Globe and Mail

Anne McLellan, seen here on Dec. 13, 2016, worked with the Trudeau government on the legalization of cannabis and new rules for interactions with the Attorney-General after the SNC-Lavalin affair. Adrian Wyld/The Canadian Press The Prime Minister has hired …

bubmagOctober 30, 2019

Solar Storm

H. G. Wells, Disney’s pioneering women and an oncologist’s memoir: Books in brief

Inventing Tomorrow Sarah Cole Columbia University Press (2019) H. G. Wells was, asserts scholar Sarah Cole, a pioneer adept at rescaling the cosmos and humanitys place in it. He straddled the border between science and literature, but not all his complexiti…

bubmagOctober 30, 2019

Solar Storm

H. G. Wells, Disney’s pioneering women and an oncologist’s memoir: Books in brief

Inventing Tomorrow Sarah Cole Columbia University Press (2019) H. G. Wells was, asserts scholar Sarah Cole, a pioneer adept at rescaling the cosmos and humanitys place in it. He straddled the border between science and literature, but not all his complexiti…

bubmagOctober 30, 2019

Feudalism

Conservatism

Conservatism in a broad sense, as a social attitude, has always existed. It expresses the instinctive human fear of sudden change, and tendency to habitual action. Cecil, for instance, contrasts “modern Conservatism” with the “natural conservatism” from w…

bubmagOctober 30, 2019

Brexit

Britain Braces For New Vote In December That Could Ease The Path To Brexit

Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson talks during the debate on the Early Parliamentary General Election Bill in the House of Commons, London, Tuesday, Oct. 29, 2019. UK Parliament/Jessica Taylor/AP Still in turmoil over if, when or how to leave the Europ…

bubmagOctober 30, 2019

Hrant Dink

Samantha Power: Why the House Finally Recognized the Armenian Genocide

The road to the House resolution offers two lessons that go beyond the United States and Turkey. First, as a baseline rule, for the sake of overall American credibility and for that of our diplomats, Washington officials must be empowered to tell the truth. …

bubmagOctober 30, 2019

Former Pastor: Those Who Leave Christianity Are “Not in Open Rebellion”

Why New York Can’t Pick Up Its Trash

US House overwhelmingly votes to recognize Armenian genocide

In historic vote, US House recognises ‘Armenian genocide’

Trudeau hires Anne McLellan as western adviser – The Globe and Mail

H. G. Wells, Disney’s pioneering women and an oncologist’s memoir: Books in brief

H. G. Wells, Disney’s pioneering women and an oncologist’s memoir: Books in brief

Conservatism

Britain Braces For New Vote In December That Could Ease The Path To Brexit

Samantha Power: Why the House Finally Recognized the Armenian Genocide

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