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Bill Benfield

• Cairo looks for debt relief
• Security council tells Gaddafi to stop the killing

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Tom Strieter

• Interfaith forum tackles economy and morality

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Harold Wallace

• Teacher Appreciation Week in Chicago: a cut in pay?
• Supreme Court extends attack on democracy with McCutcheon decision

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Nadia E. El-Shazly

• Egypt’s revolution: diary of an “intellectual guerilla”

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Tatyana Torregian

• Neighborhood Grocery Initiative takes on non-union megastores

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Pamela Powers

• What happened to the War on Poverty?

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Tomas Marchante Calles Montañez

Tomas Marchante Calles Montañez writes from Los Angeles. "Creo es posible construir un mundo justo en donde todos sean felices."

• Tomorrow in history: Beatification day for El Salvador’s Archbishop Oscar Romero

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Glenn Ramsey

Glenn Ramsey teaches history at the University of Memphis. Reach him through Political Affairs.

• Ghosts of Memphis’ slave past: Fallout over renaming Confederate parks
• Smiley and West’s Poverty Tour: A call for unconditional brotherhood

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Mark Potok

• Coming to terms with the Confederacy

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