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The psychic toll of nonstop tragedies

On July 17, police responded to the fatal shooting of three officers in Baton Rouge

WHAT ARE WE SUPPOSED TO DO with all this? Every second day seems to bring some fresh outrage, “happening now” on cable news and pinging onto our phones before we’ve had a chance to digest the last horror. An informed citizenry begins to feel like Lucille Ball at that assembly line that keeps picking up speed, except nobody’s laughing: in the space of 12 days, Baton Rouge, Falcon Heights, Dallas, Nice,

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