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• Behind religious defense of Roy Moore, an aggressive view of masculinity
• A tax cut, but for whom? Republican plans favor business
• Amid apparent coup, Zimbabwe ponders a future without Mugabe
• As ban on 'Il Duce' trinkets looms, Mussolini's hometown eyes educational future

Behind religious defense of Roy Moore, an aggressive view of masculinity Posted: 15 Nov 2017 02:37 PM PST When some of Roy Moore's defenders seemed to justify the idea of older Christian men dating teenage girls, a number of conservative Evangelical Christians, like a number of Americans, were both outraged and appalled. One of Mr. Moore's defenders compared a grown man dating a teen as akin to the biblical Mary and Joseph. While their ages are not given in the Bible, in some evangelical circles they are believed to be an adult male carpenter and young teenage girl.

A tax cut, but for whom? Republican plans favor business Posted: 15 Nov 2017 02:34 PM PST The latest plot twist in Republican efforts to overhaul the US tax code amplifies what may be the most fundamental debate surrounding the legislation: Who is this really for?

Amid apparent coup, Zimbabwe ponders a future without Mugabe Posted: 15 Nov 2017 02:32 PM PST When troops placed Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe under house arrest Wednesday in what appeared to be a military coup, it wasn't just the possible unseating of the country's long-time president. It was the political unraveling of a man who had, in many ways, often seemed to be Zimbabwe personified – in both its brightest days and its most troubled. By the time tanks rolled into Harare the day before, Mr. Mugabe had presided over nearly four tumultuous decades of Zimbabwean history.

As ban on 'Il Duce' trinkets looms, Mussolini's hometown eyes educational future Posted: 15 Nov 2017 11:59 AM PST Mussolini busts, Mussolini keyrings, statues of "Il Duce" on a rearing stallion, and Mussolini propaganda posters. The bizarre objects are crammed into a shop on the main street of Predappio, a town in northern Italy where Benito Mussolini was born in 1883. In the past few decades it has become a place of pilgrimage for Italy's unrepentant neo-Fascists: unabashed admirers of a man who led Italy into disastrous colonial adventures and an alliance with Adolf Hitler which brought Italy to its knees.

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