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Mar 10 2020
Opinion
Cancel Everything
Social distancing is the only way to stop the coronavirus. We must start immediately.
We don’t yet know the full ramifications of the novel coronavirus. But three crucial facts have become clear in the first months of this extraordinary global event. And what they add up to is not an invocation to stay calm, as so many politicians around the globe are incessantly suggesting; it is, on
The AtlanticMar 14 2019
Opinion
Why Beto O'Rourke could be Dems' 2020 nominee against Trump
Donald Trump and Beto O’Rourke are actually quite similar.
Yes, they both ran against Ted Cruz at one point, but that’s not it.
The answer is authenticity. You either have it or you don’t. And if you do, it can make up for a multitude of sins.
And for Beto, this could be how he ends up as the nominee.
For better or worse, you know who Donald Trump is and what’s on
Guest Writer - RightJun 22 2020
Opinion
Trump Is Promising Four More Years of Strife
He can’t run on accomplishments. So he’s running on violence and fear.
On Saturday night in Tulsa, Oklahoma, President Donald Trump tried to relaunch his reelection campaign. This was his chance, after the onslaught of the novel coronavirus and three months without a campaign rally, to tell Americans what he would do in a second term. The election, he argued, was about defeating an
SlateMar 13 2019
News
College admissions cheating scheme: 3 bizarre details from the complaint
"Desperate Housewives" star Felicity Huffman and “Full House” alum Lori Loughlin were allegedly among the 50 charged in what is said to be the biggest college admissions scam ever prosecuted by the U.S. Justice Department — but the star-studded suspects aren't the only details that have intrigued the public.
Bizarre details from a nearly 270-page complaint started to trickle out Tuesday
Fox News DigitalJun 17 2020
Perspectives Blog
No Such Thing As a Social Distancing Trophy
We’re bored. We’re restless. We’ve watched everything good on Netflix. And it’s really nice outside. So therefore we must be healthy.
Such is the sublogical thinking that has driven the nature of our country’s re-opening, despite the complete and total lack of evidence that the Covid-19 virus is subsiding. The United States has reached a plateau in which just over 21,000 people test
Dan SchnurSep 28 2021
Analysis
After Afghanistan, what kind of wars does Pentagon want to fight?
As the last of the U.S. forces withdrew from Afghanistan and closed the books on the longest war in American history, the general consensus seemed to be that politicians won’t be asking the Pentagon to do that again anytime soon.
The “that” includes sending hundreds of thousands of troops, as was the case at the height of the invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan, to win hearts and minds in
Christian Science MonitorMay 01 2020
Analysis
America’s Covid-19 hot spots shed a light on our moral failures
It’s no accident that prisons and meatpacking plants are hotbeds of Covid-19.
In 2010, the moral philosopher Kwame Anthony Appiah made a list of practices that he believed people in the distant future will condemn our generation of humanity for, much as people in the 21st century almost universally condemn slavery or the denial of women’s suffrage.
His four candidates were the
VoxMar 07 2019
News
Democrats dismiss border officials' security pleas: 'You have no feelings, no compassion'
Smuggling cartels are poised to make $2.5 billion off trafficking in illegal immigrants this year, top border officials told Congress on Wednesday, as they pleaded with lawmakers to make the changes needed to discourage families from making the dangerous journey north.
Kevin K. McAleenan, commissioner of Customs and Border Protection, said cartels are “profiting tremendously” off the
Washington TimesMar 04 2020
News
What happens to rule of law if the law keeps changing?
Interpretations of law change over time, of course. But a case before the U.S. Supreme Court highlights what can happen when politics flip-flop so wildly and quickly.
When Justice Stephen Breyer began to speak, Amy Hagstrom Miller could barely believe it.
As he continued, she began to wonder if she was in the U.S. Supreme Court at all, or if she was dreaming.
The headline
Christian Science MonitorJun 16 2020
Opinion
Why America’s Institutions Are Failing
The country’s law-enforcement and public-health systems are flunking 2020’s test.
The pandemic and the police protests, the twin crises of this horrendous year, might initially seem to have nothing to do with each other. In some ways, they are totally opposite cataclysms.
The COVID-19 outbreak, which demanded a swift and efficient response, revealed a discombobulated country
The Atlantic