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Barack Obama: a six-month assessment

The potential of the United States president to make the change he promised in the domestic arena is becoming clearer.


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A new Benedict for a new Dark Ages

The Pope's latest encyclical is another skirmish in his war on the moral relativism which undermines our culture.



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Headlines don’t do Caritas in Veritate justice

Caritas in Veritate, an encyclical about love, is sparking argument in the media over what it really means.



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Money from love

In an encyclical released this week, an intellectually adventurous Pope asserts that love is ultimately the solution to the world economic crisis.



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What if Darwin had known the new biology?

He surely would have agreed that 'information', not natural selection, is the real push in evolution.



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After Palin

Sarah, we hardly knew ya’.



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The Darwin Myth

Charles Darwin was a kind and polite man, but his take on evolution led to social Darwinism and the Nazis.



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The skunk at Darwin’s garden party

The celebrations for this year’s anniversaries should not hide the embarrassing links between Darwin and eugenics.



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Comments, please!

This week we notched up our first 10,000 comments.



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Behind the crisis

What lies behind the political and constitutional turmoil in this small Central American country?



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Honduran hotspot

Once again, the media got it wrong. The deposed president was violating his own constitution.



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The Audacity of the Pope Ross Douhat says that as Democrats and Republicans battle to show the Pope is on their side, Benedict's latest encyclical issues a challenge to them both. | New York Times

When Newspapers Peddle Influence A revealing scandal at the Washington Post. | Wall Street Journal

The Uighurs’ cry has echoed round the world The deaths in northwest China are, sadly, the inevitable result of the repression of Turkic peoples over six decades | London Times

A Staggering Budget Gap ...  and a Reluctance to Fill It | New York Times

Restating the case for human uniqueness There is nothing remotely human about primates. | Spiked

Chrome vs. Bing vs. You and Me Is this a real battle of the titans -- or are they just shadow-boxing?
| New York Times

Public praises science, scientists fault public Americans respect scientists, but less so their views on global warming, evolution, embryonic stem cell research and other issues. | Pew Forum

The Apollo Space Race In 1969 men set foot on the Moon for the first time. The Apollo space programme that put them there was the product of an age of optimism and daring very different from our own. | History Today

Palin and Her Enemies Their caricature of her has always missed the point of why she appeals to millions. | New York Times

Ecce Homo To welcome the suffering is the sign of our humanity. | American Public Radio

What Does it Mean to Respect Islam?: The Witness of Soraya M. To focus not on an idea but on respecting the humanity of individuals. | Public Discourse

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