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Photography: Julia Richer (Associate Editor); Eleanor Taylor, Karen Zakrison (Assistant Editors...
Photography: Julia Richer (Associate Editor); Eleanor Taylor, Karen Zakrison (Assistant Editors...
...model here, of course, is China. While Russia -- struggling to reform the economy and the political system at the same time -- sinks ever deeper into poverty, China, which is trying capitalism without democracy, grows richer at an astonishing rate of 13% a year. China's leaders still aspire, at least, to a totalitarian regime. Dissidents are still arrested, and the government recently outlawed all satellite dishes. But it would be hard to argue honestly that China's approach has served the average citizen worse than Russia...
Abortion-rights proponents are not amoral people, but they do have a richer understanding of the necessary ambiguities of public life. Their political sensibility informs them that some questions are not easily hammered out, and so they do not believe it is reasonable to try to sweep aside moral complexities for the sake of public consensus and resolution...
Photography: Julia Richer (Associate Editor); Eleanor Taylor, Karen Zakrison (Assistant Editors...