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Last week, Donald Trump got another slap in the face: Facebook announced it was extending its ban on him for two years. In early 2023, the company, which gave Trump the boot after he incited the January 6 attack on the US Capitol, will reassess whether it should allow him to return to its platform and Instagram. As many a commentator observed, this move will blunt Trump’s ability to throw

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Minneapolis, the city where a worldwide movement began last summer after the death of George Floyd, is back in the news again. Well, not really.

There are undoubtedly newsworthy things happening in Minnesota. The Minneapolis City Council voted unanimously, 13-0, on Feb. 12 to approve $6.4 million for more

In tweets posted late Saturday night, President Trump dropped a bombshell: He had canceled a planned secret meeting with President Ashraf Ghani and Taliban representatives scheduled for Sunday at Camp David. He also appeared to suspend talks with the Taliban, scuppering a tentative agreement struck less than a week ago by his special envoy, Zalmay Khalilzad, after nine rounds of negotiations

Reweaving the fabric of civil dialogue must be a national priority, and mediation is the way to do it right. “Too many Americans see our public life, not as an arena for mediation of our differences,” Joe Biden has observed, but “as an occasion for total, unrelenting, partisan warfare.” Mediation can be defined as the convening of people across differences in service of responsible problem-