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The crisis involving migrants fleeing violence in Central America, seeking sanctuary in the United States and overwhelming American immigration courts is real.
The Obama Administration was flummoxed by it when the numbers of women and unaccompanied ...
DATE: Jul 23, 2018
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A common refrain in the comments of New York Times readers about the obituary of Dovey Johnson Roundtree was astonishment that they never had heard about the inspiring life of this accomplished District of Columbia lawyer and pioneer of civil rights....
DATE: May 28, 2018
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The FBI’s investigation last autumn into corruption and fraud in men’s college basketball cannot really be called a wake-up call. Not when the problems — big money, flouted rules, sham classes and never any consequences for wrongdoing — had been so o...
DATE: May 16, 2018
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Pavel Durov is a reclusive online innovator who has repeatedly come up against the powers that be in Russia. In earlier years, on the social media platform VKontakte, he stood fast against demands from the Federal Security Service, known as the FSB, ...
DATE: May 03, 2018
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Nicaragua is a volcanic nation, geologically and politically. Forty years ago, seemingly out of nowhere, a series of popular eruptions shook the entrenched regime of Anastasio Somoza, who fell from power on July 19, 1979.
Today, one of the revolutio...
DATE: Apr 26, 2018
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The gap between the policies pursued by Donald Trump’s administration and what the President says when he is outside the range of a teleprompter continues to be disconcertingly wide. At a rally in Ohio last Thursday, Trump suddenly blurted that he mi...
DATE: Apr 02, 2018
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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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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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