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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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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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