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In the 19th century, the U.S. adopted a "social peacekeeper" model of policing. Then the Civil War left behind a surplus of firearms.

"I hope the shootings in Oak Creek will lead to interfaith education around the state," says Scott Anderson, director of the Wisconsin Council of Churches. "There is a hunger for this kind of engagement."

Is Egypt's president fighting for democracy against a military regime? Or is he trying to institute an Islamist takeover?

A report from Santiago, five months after the U.S.-backed 1973 military coup by Augusto Pinochet.

A vigorous, eloquent reply to criticism expressed by a group of eight clergymen.