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It’s alarming that only someone given to wild flights of irrationality believes that America can hear the truth about itself and respond rationally.
The United States saw two mass shootings in the span of 24 hours. At least one of them appears to have been inspired by Donald Trump.
Here's how to get some tension and drama in the second Democratic presidential debates.
The secretary of state is supposed to be a customer of the intelligence community, not its master.
Kleiman, a defender of nuanced drug policy, was an important influence on America’s slow, unsteady move away from the all-out war on drugs.
The anticlimactic end of the Trump-Russia investigation is partly due to decades of bitter political battles over what powers to grant special prosecutors.
We don’t need to win this nationalistic race — especially when we don’t even know what’s at the finish line.
He’d be fired from any other major corporation for this dangerous tomfoolery.
At the Department of Labor, Alex Acosta continues to ensure that those vulnerable to trafficking and exploitation are made more vulnerable still.
It’s not enough to criticize the racist anchors on Fox News. The Murdoch family is responsible for what happens there. Let’s talk about them.
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