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Killing Journalists Is Wrong When the Saudis Do It — and When the United States Does It, Too
There should be accountability for Jamal Khashoggi’s murder, and also for the 2003 U.S. bombing raid that killed Al Jazeera’s Tareq Ayoub in Iraq.
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Louisville Shooter Made Racist Remark Right After Killing Two Black People, but Police Won't Call it a Hate Crime
The Kroger shooter reportedly told an armed white witness, “Don’t shoot me. I won't shoot you. Whites don’t shoot whites.”
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Don't Lose Sight of the Real Stakes: Jamal Khashoggi's Murder Is About Repression of Free Speech in the Middle East
The Saudi government's targeting of Khashoggi is a particularly brutal example of the vicious and systemic suppression of free speech in the Middle East.
The War on Immigrants
Border Patrol Union Endorses Extremist Video Featuring White Nationalists
“Killing Free Speech” refers to Democrats as “evil” and features white nationalists who make a correlation between gang rapes, Islam, and immigration.
Corporate-Funded Judicial Boot Camp Made Sitting Federal Judges More Conservative
“It winds up spilling over into criminal cases, even though law and economics is mostly regulatory. It’s like a virus.”
The 2018 Midterm Cycle Could Be the Most Islamophobic U.S. Election Ever
Donald Trump has ushered in an era of pervasive Islamophobia in American politics.
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The Despicable Campaign to Roll Back Transgender Protections in the Massachusetts Midterms
“Once we have formal legal protections, stripping them away at the ballot does way more harm than if the protections were never there in the first place.”
Post-Cold War U.S. Foreign Policy Has Been a Near Total Failure. Two New Books Look at Why.
Stephen Walt and John Mearsheimer are back — this time with dueling books about why U.S. foreign policy has utterly failed.
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My Morehouse Brother Chinedu Okobi Died After Being Electrocuted by Police. Tasers Are Not “Less Lethal” Weapons.
Axon, the company formerly known as Taser, markets its electric shock guns as “less lethal,” but police keep killing people with these weapons.
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Native American Sovereignty Is Under Attack. Here's How Elizabeth Warren's DNA Test Hurt Our Struggle.
Elizabeth Warren took the bait on Donald Trump's racist “Pocahontas” DNA challenge. Her reaction hurt more than she might realize.