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AnalysisJustice

Justifying Murder

“There is no way I or any other representatives wish to see abortion doctors murdered,” South Dakota State Representative Phil Jensen told a Washington Post reporter yesterday. Jensen’s proposed law expands South Dakota’s definition of justifiable homicide to killings that aim to prevent a fetus’ demise…

NewsWorld

Casting the First Stone

Almost four months ago, a Kampala, Uganda-based tabloid called Rolling Stone (no relation to the American magazine) published 100 photographs of gay Ugandans, along with where to find them, and warned against “recruitment.” The headline said “Hang Them.”

AnalysisPolitics

Violent Rhetoric and the Mentally Ill

For some time now, it’s been a reflexive response by media pundits, particularly conservatives and “moderate” liberals, to point to mental illness when some violent and unstable person commits a horrifying act in the name of extremist right-wing beliefs…