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    Michael Cook

    Michael Cook is the editor in chief of Mercator. He lives in Sydney, Australia.

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  • Could the Olympics Die With the Baby Boomers?

    Could the Olympics Die With the Baby Boomers?4

    The pageantry of the Olympic Games are diverting attention from a question which must keep members of the International Olympic Committee awake at night: will the modern Games survive? “If we don’t get young people playing sport, we won’t be here for very much longer,” IOC spokesperson Mark Adams said at a press conference last week. “We have

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  • The Pope’s Little Miracle of Laughter

    The Pope’s Little Miracle of Laughter0

    The world is going to hell in a handbasket. Bird flu. Ukraine. Climate change. Dallas Mavericks. Kamala Harris. Boston Celtics. Gaza. Extreme heat. Mortgage defaults. I recently resolved to turn my little corner of the world around by spreading good cheer. Every day I’m sending friends on WhatsApp a great joke. Today’s is: Why did the

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  • Is Commercial Surrogacy a Human Rights Disaster?

    Is Commercial Surrogacy a Human Rights Disaster?2

    “This is the most pro-family thing that the Legislature has done,” said Governor Gretchen Whitmer as she signed to legalise commercial surrogacy. Every American state has its own laws on surrogacy; until this year, a strict ban was in place in Michigan. Now it has joined the majority of states that permit some form of commercial surrogacy. The only

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  • The Polish Midwife Who Delivered 3,000 Babies at Auschwitz

    The Polish Midwife Who Delivered 3,000 Babies at Auschwitz2

    Fifty years ago died one of the most remarkable women of the 20th century. You have probably never heard of Stanisława Leszczyńska. Few people have. Yet she was a model of heroism and humanity who should be acclaimed around the globe. Stanisława was a Polish midwife who worked for two years in the maternity ward

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