The machinery of a nation is often fueled by the private ghosts of its architects, shifting from the Macro of national policy to the Micro of a man’s inner landscape. Stephen Miller stands at the center of this storm, where his lineage from the Shtetls (small Jewish towns in Eastern Europe) of Belarus informs a worldview that many see as a crusade against the very Asylum (the protection granted by a nation to someone who has left their native country as a political refugee) that saved his family from the Holocaust.
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San Francisco’s “Babies” Are Losing the War
The path from De Marillac Academy to Boeddeker Park has become one of the most treacherous 0.2-mile stretches in urban America. For the children of the Tenderloin, a simple walk to recreation is a tactical maneuver through chemical despair and open-air drug markets. The safety of our youth has been traded for the comfort of the sidewalk’s most destructive elements.
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