A very moving interview with her in Newsweek can be found here. Of the many things that touched me deeply was this question: Let’s talk about what I think a lot of cancer survivors think of as being almost harder than the physical pain: the emotional cost. And her answer: When I was first diagnosed,…

The news about the new Pope’s first book is compelling: Rich countries bent on power and profit have mercilessly “plundered and sacked” Africa and other poor regions and exported to them the “cynicism of a world without God,” Pope Benedict writes in his first book. The Pope has received almost limitless criticism for being too…

A story in The Washington Post this morning on Wal-Mart’s lobbying (and other federal lobbying) set me off on a research trail. The Center for Responsive Politics – a non-partisan group – has released a study about lobbying the federal government in 2006. The total for the year is $2.6 billion. How is that money…

It is Holy Week for Christians and there is a lot of chatter about politics. Nothing changes it seems; 2,000 years ago the story was about politics too. This week it is about “the first primary” results for 2008 presidential race. This primary wasn’t about collective votes. It was about collective dollars. In order to…

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