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Having been reassigned to Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, two months ago, Michael Rossmann finds that his mental suitcase has been properly mussed.

Perry Petrich has a look at who’s who among the recently departed—and what they have left behind—in this new feature.

After shootings in Colorado and Wisconsin, Tim O’Brien wonders how we take account of evil in a post-devil world.

Having checked the box for both Democrats and Republicans (and felt the pinch of not living up to John 17:21), Sam Sawyer throws down the gauntlet.

So your political career has been defined by anti-Semitism, then you find out you’re Jewish. Now what? Quang Tran takes a closer look.

It is indeed possible for the not-insane to find joy in the ruins of a Nazi death camp. Or so says Michael Rozier.

A new soda claims it’s “not for women,” but TJP man’s man Vinny Marchionni thinks that’s all wrong.

Culture wars? Relativism? The word “chalice”? TJP’s resident rhetorician Jayme Stayer gives us 13 examples of how the answers we give depend up on the (rhetorical) perspectives we take.

Why is it so hard to wrap up a phone conversation? Actually, Matthew Dunch has a better question: what’s missing from the conversation that makes us want to hang up?

“Shall We Call This the Promised Land?” Mario Powell makes his TJP debut by asking us what problems we can solve as individuals, and what problems we must ask the government to address.