Check out these recent articles from around the web:
Discrimination against pregnant workers has been rising, report says by Washington Post
“Thirty-five years after Congress passed a federal law to protect pregnant women from discrimination on the job, these workers are instead denied reasonable accommodations that other workers receive and often wind up losing income, benefits or their jobs or suffering pregnancy complications, according to a report released Tuesday.”
Extremism Rises Among Myanmar Buddhists by NY Times
“Buddhist lynch mobs have killed more than 200 Muslims and forced more than 150,000 people, mostly Muslims, from their homes.”
Is Rand Paul’s Love of Ayn Rand a ‘Conspiracy’? by Jonathan Chait
“But the upshot is that I strongly dispute Friedersdorf’s premise that Rand’s theories are a variant of democracy, any more than Marx’s are. In fact, I find the existence of powerful elected officials who praise her theories every bit as disturbing to contemplate as elected officials who praise Marxism. Even if you take care to note some doctrinal differences with Rand, in my view we are talking about a demented, hateful cult leader and intellectual fraud. People who think she had a lot of really good ideas should not be anywhere near power.”
A Catholic Defense of Obamacare by Morning’s Minion, Vox Nova
“I believe that the basic principles of Obamacare are aligned both with Catholic social teaching, and with best practices throughout the world. Again, the yardstick to judge healthcare policies must always be whether it delivers affordable healthcare to all. Obamacare, while not perfect, goes a long way in this direction. Pretty much every alternative proposal against Obamacare falls far short. And that should tell us everything we need to know.”
“Now, we like to think of ourselves as a classless society, but it isn’t true today. As the Brookings Institution has pointed out, America has turned into a place Horatio Alger would scarcely recognize: we have more inequality and less mobility than once-stratified Europe, particularly the Nordic countries. It’s what outgoing Council of Economic Advisers chief Alan Krueger has dubbed the “Great Gatsby Curve” — the more inequality there is, the less mobility there is. As Tim Noah put it, it’s harder to climb our social ladder when the rungs are further apart. And it’s getting worse.”
No More Monkeys by Michael Downs
“My ‘daddy sabbatical’ has begun. After serving at a Jesuit high school for the past six years as a Social Justice teacher, I recently decided to take some time away from work and be more present to my two young children.”
A conversation with a newly ordained Washington priest by Michelle Boorstein, Washington Post
“My 20s were a tough time. You come out of going to school and you get a job and you’re living on your own, and there are no structures of developing community. You’re just out there. And I think a lot of people really suffer during that time. I know I did. I found the solution in a closer relationship with God. A lot of people turn to other gods, to put it bluntly, to heal that pain. I think that’s true especially in Washington, a city that’s so transient. I see that a lot. I think that one of the biggest things people suffer from today is loneliness.”
The Post-Cynical Christian by Jim Wallis
“But it’s time for action. It’s time for realistic, skeptical, but post-cynical Christians, who are willing to act because of their faith, along with others of deep moral conviction. It’s time to make the personal decisions that can change the world.”
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