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Angola’s new president, João Lourenço, has said one of his highest priorities is to root out the corruption and favouritism that thrived under his predecessor, José Eduardo dos Santos, who ruled for 38 years. Lourenço should look no farther than the ...
DATE: Mar 28, 2018
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The results of a Tuesday special election in a usually deep-red congressional district are just the latest sign that Republicans’ toxic embrace of Donald Trump is hurting not only the country but their party.
With all precincts reporting and absente...
DATE: Mar 16, 2018
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Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta could have presided over a landmark consolidation of democracy last year that would have positioned Kenya for political leadership in Africa. Instead, he is leading the country back towards the autocracy it thought it ...
DATE: Feb 08, 2018
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United States Attorney-General Jeff Sessions is pushing the Federal Government back into cannabis enforcement. This is an unwise and unnecessary move that may divert resources from more serious problems, and end up backfiring on those who want to res...
DATE: Jan 08, 2018
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A new FBI report on hate crimes tells a sobering story. For the second year in a row, police departments across the United States reported a rise in the number of crimes motivated by bias.
In 2016, the FBI counted 6,121 reported incidents nationwide,...
DATE: Nov 27, 2017
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Donald Trump has made his rapid appointment of federal judges a point of pride. But in the President’s rush to appoint nominees and the Senate’s rush to confirm them, lawmakers risk giving too little scrutiny to potential judges whom the American Bar...
DATE: Nov 10, 2017
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United States immigration officials outdid themselves last week when they took into custody a ten-year-old girl with cerebral palsy who had just undergone emergency surgery. Is this what Donald Trump had in mind when he promised that federal enforcem...
DATE: Oct 30, 2017
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The House of Representatives voted last week to ban abortions of foetuses that have passed 20 weeks of gestation, sending to the Senate a Bill purportedly about protecting foetuses capable of feeling pain.
Among the reasons for scepticism: the Ameri...
DATE: Oct 12, 2017
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Last week, a weary, divided nation finally received words of moral guidance. They did not come from Donald Trump.
The President spent the better part of the week feuding with the National Football League after spinning himself into fury over the deci...
DATE: Oct 02, 2017
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Donald Trump appears to have embarked on a two-track approach to pressuring North Korea into restraining its nuclear weapons and missile programmes. The first track is the ever-tightening economic sanctions that, if properly implemented, could furthe...
DATE: Sep 25, 2017
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