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Immigration restrictionists give a number of reasons for why they want fewer people settling in the United States. Most of these reasons do not hold up under scrutiny.
For example, the best available data says that immigrants do not take native-born...
DATE: Sep 25, 2017
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Prime Minister Theresa May made a big speech yesterday on Brexit negotiations, but the bigger news coming out of London may have been that the transit authority, Transport for London, decided not to renew the licence of Uber Technologies to operate i...
DATE: Sep 23, 2017
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British Prime Minister Theresa May travels to Florence this week to deliver a long-awaited speech on her Brexit strategy. The venue and timing are not ideal — it is a speech she should have given months ago, to a British audience — but if she gets th...
DATE: Sep 22, 2017
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A culture of cruelty is sweeping the world and it cuts across ideological as well as national borders. In India last week, the murder of Gauri Lankesh, a prominent journalist and critic of Narendra Modi’s Government, was met with euphoria by his onli...
DATE: Sep 22, 2017
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Whatever you do, don’t tell an Australian that they were “born with a silver spoon” in their mouth — especially not after the actor Rebel Wilson won Australia’s biggest-ever defamation payment.
The charge against her? She had been accused of having a...
DATE: Sep 21, 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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The Washington Post
I love words, but sometimes they just aren’t up to the job.
Like the word “inappropriate”, which has been applied to certain tweets last week by Jemele Hill, the ESPN commentator, one of which described Donald Trump as a white supremacist.
Soon after...
DATE: Sep 20, 2017
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Margaret Sullivan
Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish new year, begins tomorrow night. This is the season during which Jews make tshuvah — or engage in the work of repentance and repair — for all we have done wrong in the past year. Tshuvah is not just about saying sorry; it’s ...
DATE: Sep 19, 2017
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I sat on the Human Rights Commission for 13 years up until the end of 1998. The legislation was always a work in progress — not as one would think, as this immutable gospel or the tablet on the Mount. The whole issue of what is a human right has its ...
DATE: Sep 19, 2017
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Khalid Wasi
While ESPN’s Teddy Atlas and Stephen A. Smith were fired up after the bout between Gennady Golovkin and Canelo Álvarez was deemed to be a split-decision draw, the executive director of the Nevada Athletic Commission admitted that one of the three jud...
DATE: Sep 18, 2017
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