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Christian. Mother. Avid partisan of humankind. Usually joking. Staff writer at @TheAtlantic. Alum: @NYTimes, @WashingtonPost. Tips: elizabeth.bruenig@gmail.com
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Has Graham Platner Changed Enough?

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By Elizabeth Bruenig
| The Atlantic
People can change. I have seen it, and I have lived it. Just when change happens can generally be grasped only in retrospect. In the case of Senate hopeful Graham Platner of Maine, many Democrats are understandably eager to see evidence that he is no longer the man implicated by the drumbeat of damning revelations.
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The Pope’s Defense of Human Imperfection

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By Elizabeth Bruenig
| The Atlantic
After the Lord sent a great flood to rid the world of evil, people gathered in Babylonia and began baking bricks—a recent advancement. In those days all humans spoke the same language, and they used those bricks to build a tower that embodied their limitless ambitions. And so the Lord imposed a panoply of tongues, thereby deterring the creation of any new technology that might aspire to divine power and glory. The Lord may have delayed such technologies, but he didn’t preempt them entirely.
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Thou Shalt Not Post the Ten Commandments in Classrooms

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By Elizabeth Bruenig
| The Atlantic
When you were in elementary school, did your mind occasionally rise above the smell of pencil shavings and the sound of squeaking desk chairs to contemplate whether you ought to commit murder? Did you ponder what it would mean to covet your neighbor’s wife? Ordinarily those aren’t questions addressed in grade-school classrooms, but according to legislators in Alabama, Louisiana, Texas, and Arkansas, they ought to be.
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