Empire by Invitation
African leaders are asking for more U.S. counterterrorism support. They should be careful what they wish for.
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African leaders are asking for more U.S. counterterrorism support. They should be careful what they wish for.
That the LAPD is confidently deploying this public relations tactic nearly three years after George Floyd’s death is a grim reflection of how little has changed.
House Republicans want to assume the mantle of one of the nation's most iconic investigative committees, but the differences are stark.
The U.S. border regime is cruel whether it is enforced by a president spewing racist slurs or one appealing to “safe and orderly processing."
Two years after January 6, Republicans are still locked in a battle for personal political power.
To justify its 20-year war, the U.S. said it cared about the Afghan people. Now Congress is abandoning those seeking to escape Taliban rule.
2022 has seen right-wing attacks on trans rights increasingly aided by the tacit, if sometimes unwitting, transphobia of liberal institutions.
The industry is still running the same five-step plan, to the same end: preserving power, subsidies, and social license.
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