Six Bits of Good News from 2015

When I was younger, I once asked my mother why she didn’t read the newspaper on a regular basis. “It’s all bad news,” she replied. “Why would I want to read that?” It was a fair question, and, reflecting back on 2015, it’s easy to see how many people could have adopted the same attitude. From the attack at the Charlie Hebdo offices, in Paris, in early January, to the downing of Germanwings Flight 9525, in March, to the bodies of Syrian refugees washing up on the shores of the Mediterranean in the summer to the second terrorist outrage in Paris, in November, many of the headlines from overseas were grim. Here at home, meanwhile, the nightly news served up a steady diet of police shootings and gun massacres, the deadliest of which—a rampage in San Bernardino, California—was carried out by a radicalized American-born Muslim and his Pakistani wife.

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