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Michael Liccione

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  • 11-Year-Old Girl Eviscerates Hollywood

    11-Year-Old Girl Eviscerates Hollywood0

    Today the film Me Before You, based on a 2012 novel of the same title, opens in theaters throughout the U.S. and Britain. It centers on a talented man, Will Traynor, whom a motorcycle accident made quadriplegic; he no longer finds life worth living and commits suicide calmly, with a bit of help, after much

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  • America’s Opioid Addiction Is Worse Than You Think

    America’s Opioid Addiction Is Worse Than You Think0

    By now, most Americans know that the United States has seen a sharp increase in opioid-overdose deaths over the past decade. The opioid problem is indeed global. In Afghanistan, for example, a major if not the major source of funding for the Taliban is the sale of poppies, the opium derived from them, and the chemical paste containing it, which are the materials for making heroin. But

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  • The Migrant Crisis Presents a Moral Dilemma

    The Migrant Crisis Presents a Moral Dilemma0

    During the three-day Memorial Day weekend, as Americans grilled meat and sipped ice-cold beer and Coca-Cola, more than 700 migrants from Africa died when their unseaworthy boats sank in the Mediterranean Sea on the way to Europe. Although a U.N. official named in the linked article called that “a very intense and exceptional week for

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  • Conservatives Once Condemned Dropping of Hiroshima Bomb

    Conservatives Once Condemned Dropping of Hiroshima Bomb0

    President Obama’s speech at Hiroshima on May 27 has predictably sparked much controversy. Without parsing it all, I suggest that the key message so many dislike is this: “Hiroshima teaches this truth: Technological progress without an equivalent progress in human institutions can doom us. The scientific revolution that led to the splitting of an atom

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