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from Asia Times
LEAST BIASED, HIGH; News & Media Website based in Hong Kong
2020 has been a challenging year. For some challenges, such as the coronavirus, a light is appearing at the end of the tunnel. But for others, the true consequences may be only beginning to appear. This is perhaps no more true than in the assault on political legitimacy. In 2020, this was threatened by forces on opposite sides of politics: cancel culture on the left and conspiracy theories on the right. Each poses a serious threat, as a collapse in political legitimacy means people think the normal rules don’t apply anymore, making the world a more difficult and even dangerous place for all of us.
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FAR-LEFT BIAS, MOSTLY FACTUAL, news and activism NPO based in Albuquerque, NM
Come January 20th, the American left will need to be ready to fight for a seat at the table in an incoming administration that seems less and less inclined to woo them the closer he gets to taking office. While Joe Biden and Kamala Harris probably aren’t the leaders that American progressives would have liked for their country at this critical time, most would agree that just about anyone would be better than the malignant narcissist who has put his feelings about losing the presidential election above the suffering of his fellow citizens during a pandemic. It may have faded from most people’s memories but there was a time before the election when establishment writers like Franklin Foer of the Atlantic were claiming that a Biden presidency could be as transformative for struggling Americans as that of FDR during the Great Depression. On the basis of the former vice president’s cabinet picks so far, the left shouldn’t be surprised that this kind of talk is being quietly walked back and that American progressives are now being told they should be happy with a return to some undefined ‘normal’.
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from Religion News Service
Nonprofit Organization in Washington, D.C.
C.S. Lewis’ often overlooked final chapter of the Chronicles of Narnia still speaks to us today.
The end of the world begins with a con. A little lie, told by a petty grifter, who is willing to betray his friends and neighbors for a few small pleasures, leads to another lie, and then another, and finally to the unraveling of the ties that bind us together. As the old camp song goes, it only takes a spark to get a fire going. It can all happen in what seems like the blink of an eye, as C.S. Lewis, the Christian apologist and beloved children’s author, warns in “The Last Battle,” the flawed final chapter of the Chronicles of Narnia, which I found myself rereading as 2020 dwindled down to its last days. Often overlooked if not dismissed for its colonialist racism, “The Last Battle” won the 1956 Carnegie Prize, Britain’s top literary award for children’s books. According to Lewis, the end of Narnia — a land of talking beasts and magical creatures that the Oxford don invented at the beginning of World War II — begins in a time of peace and leisure. All is well in the land. Until it’s not.
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from The Spokesman-Review
Newspaper in Spokane, Washington
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