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The Brazilian president risked Americans’ health and flouted its laws to enable his ally to hide from investigators.
The culture industry has consolidated the power of corrupt policing. We need a root-and-branch transformation of entertainment itself.
This Israeli expansionism deserves far more attention in those countries, such as the U.S., which fund and enable it.
The ruling was a necessary victory, but anti-transgender discrimination and violence remain firmly embedded in American life.
The case is part of Filipino President Rodrigo Duterte’s campaign to persecute Ressa and her news organization, Rappler.
Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot deployed hyperaggressive police to violently clamp down anti-racist protesters of police violence even as she praised them.
The men for whom the Army bases were named were passionate advocates of a slavocracy and often incompetent military leaders.
Colorado Gov. Jared Polis faces a question Democratic leaders across the country must grapple with, as budget pressures force a reckoning.
Is the change in posture about the coronavirus based on science or political ideology?
The real terror threat comes not from anti-fascists in black masks, but from actual fascists in Hawaiian shirts.
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