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Terrorism is an attempt to intimidate a civilian population to achieve political ends. Trucker siege checks those boxes
Trudeau has finally acted decisively.
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‘Against stupidity we are defenseless’
The "freedom convoy,” anti-vaxxers and why a Lutheran minister murdered by the Nazis thought that evil wasn’t the worst thing.
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That 'freedom convoy' in Ottawa? It's partly inspired by a biblical account of divine massacre
Welcome to the Jericho March.
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Rape victims are damned if they do, damned if they don’t
Hundreds of thousands of rapes are reported but evidence ignored. Hundreds of thousands of rapists are free to rape again.
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‘Do we want to live in a world where Putin calls the shots?’
Patriots say no. Rightwingers say maybe.
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The dream of free community college is dead, because some private colleges and universities don’t want the competition
They don’t get it, because they won’t.
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The truth won’t speak for itself
The Democrats can’t trust the press and pundit corps to explain to the American people that democracy as they know it is under assault.
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Eminem honored Colin Kaepernick for making Black Lives Matter an institution
We all should.
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What is 'the good life' in the United States and what can we do as a republic to make it real?
Reviving a "philosophical tendency."
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To US oligarchs, majority views on taxing the rich count for little
If we fail to restrain the corruption of moneyed elites, the United States may go further down a path that’s difficult to retrace.
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Gratitude amid grief
A programming note ...
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Trump committed crimes when he took ‘top secret’ files. If prosecution is ‘politicizing the law,’ then he’s above it
If any other government employee were caught with a trove of classified documents, they would face criminal investigation.