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Polarized politics and mainstream intolerance
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Buddhism meets the Chinese economy
From an April 7, 2012, letter by Mikhail Kalashnikov, the designer of the AK-47 assault rifle, to Patriarch Kirill, head of the Russian Orthodox Church. Kalashnikov died in December 2013; the letter…
Travels among the undead
The prosperity gospel in recession
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