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When 16-year-old Greta Thunberg stood before the UN Climate Action Summit, she “announced a sort of secular apocalypse,” writes Rev. Robert A. Sirico. This issue of Religion & Liberty

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In his State of the Union address this year, President Donald Trump warned of the dangers of socialism. But is there any substance to that worry? Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D