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For those who have been alarmed by Donald Trump’s retreat from traditional American values, there were reassuring moments on Tuesday in his first address to the United Nations General Assembly.
Trump rightly and scathingly attacked regimes that depri...
DATE: Sep 21, 2017
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To celebrate “National Press Day” in Azerbaijan on July 22, President Ilham Aliyev announced the award of 255 apartments to journalists. Four years ago, he inaugurated an apartment building for journalists and gave away 155 flats. Both times, Aliyev ...
DATE: Sep 06, 2017
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President Donald Trump hinted for weeks that he might pardon former Arizona sheriff Joe Arpaio. When he finally did so last Friday, the White House’s official statement lauding Arpaio failed to mention the charge for which Trump had granted clemency:...
DATE: Aug 30, 2017
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The Bureau of Prisons claims to have a policy prohibiting solitary confinement, as it should. But then what do you call locking up inmates by themselves in single cells for more than 22 hours a day for long periods of time with no or limited engageme...
DATE: Jul 17, 2017
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We will be the first to acknowledge that reporters can be persistent — sometimes even obnoxious — in asking questions. But that, at least in the United States, has not generally been considered a crime. So it is more than a little troubling that a re...
DATE: May 13, 2017
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The United Nations peacekeeping mission in Haiti, one of the world’s longest-running such deployments and the only one in the Americas, will end in a few months, but not before reckoning with a fresh scandal.
A UN battalion of Nepalese peacekeepers i...
DATE: Apr 18, 2017
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When a front-runner in France’s impending presidential election obliterates history by denying the country’s well-documented complicity in deporting tens of thousands of French and foreign Jews to Nazi death camps, it is clear that something sinister...
DATE: Apr 17, 2017
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A House Intelligence Committee hearing on Monday produced the remarkable spectacle of FBI director James Comey publicly testifying that there was “no information that supports” tweets by Donald Trump alleging wiretapping of his New York headquarters ...
DATE: Mar 22, 2017
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When it comes to understanding the Republican obsession to undo Obamacare, this number is about all you need to know: 24 million. That is how many people would lose coverage under the GOP’s supposedly choice-enhancing, access-increasing replacement p...
DATE: Mar 15, 2017
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On the last day of 2016, the Catholic Church announced a remarkable political breakthrough in Congo, a sprawling country nearly the size of Western Europe that for decades has been a fount of war and instability in Africa. Joseph Kabila, the country’...
DATE: Mar 13, 2017
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