Almost four years after his wild and improbable presidency, Donald Trump managed to shock the world again. An interview with Fox News Sunday’s Chris Wallace included a claim that they don’t care what the military has to say about the name change of their bases, and an argument about whether …
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TThe death of John Lewis, the Alabama-born civil rights activist Freedom Rider and student leader-turned-Georgia congressman, represents a generational transition in America’s long struggle for black freedom, dignity and citizenship. A disciple of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr, who experienced brutal and repeated acts of violence by racist white police …
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Donald Trump has equated the Black Lives Matter movement with displays of the Confederate flag, saying: “I am not offended by Black Lives Matter, that is freedom of expression.” You know everything about canceling culture: we can’t cancel our entire history. We cannot forget that the north and the south …
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Iran’s supreme court has agreed to suspend the executions of three men sentenced to death for their participation in anti-government protests in November, whose sentences sparked an online protest last week. The men’s lawyers, Saeed Tamjidi, 26, Mohammad Rajabi, 28 and Amirhossein Moradi, 26, said in a statement on Sunday …
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A A remarkable and nightmarish scene unfolding in Portland should terrify anyone who cares about the United States Constitution: unmarked vans full of unidentified and camouflaged federal agents pull up alongside street corner protesters, then they are snatched and arrested without explanation. If this happened in Venezuela or Iran, the …
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