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War and Morality

War and Morality

War is the most horrific series of events upon which any government can engage. It is systematic, industrialized, indiscriminate...

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Disability rights group tells history of State Hospital through ‘people, not patients’

Disability rights group tells history of State Hospital through ‘people, not patients’

New history booklet tells what it was like to live on the Bull Street campus that opened in 1828 COLUMBIA, S.C. — To outsiders, the then-called South Carolina Lunatic Asylum in the 1800s was an idyllic, tranquil place to live, with garden paths and therapeutic activities. “No one would have supposed that they were crazy,” then-state Rep. Benjamin F. Perry wrote about the patients he saw on a...

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War and Morality

War is the most horrific series of events upon which any government can engage. It is systematic, industrialized, indiscriminate killing. It kills innocent adults and little girls. It often ruins the post-war lives of the killers. It is young men violently fighting...

Trump’s War Psychology

Two weeks after the start of the Iran War, the picture is coming into focus. Why would a president who promised countless times not to start new wars have leapt into this conflict? As always in the age of Trump, it's necessary to separate the president's motives and...

News Around the South, 3/16 to 3/23

NORTH CAROLINA: Low-income renters in North Carolina far outnumber affordable housing units  There are only 38 affordable and available rental homes — three fewer than last year— for every 100 of North Carolina’s 350,000 extremely low-income households, according to a...

Free Speech for Me But Not For Thee

Last week, the chair of the Federal Communications Commission threatened to rescind the broadcast licenses of media entities that do not relate events in Iran or Ukraine as the Trump administration would like them to be related. He also attacked The Wall Street...

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