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Yoni Appelbaum Pondering How to Live Together
A question for the 2017 Aspen Ideas Festival: In a country of diverse ideologies, how will Americans coexist in peace and prosperity?
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Darren Hauck / Reuters Wisconsin Republicans Consider Cracking Down on Campus Protests
The Badger State is debating a law that would suspend or expel students who shut down speakers or interfere with their free expression. Does it go too far?
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Aaron Bernstein / Reuters How Drug Prohibition Fuels American Carnage
Attorney General Jeff Sessions appears not to understand the most basic cost of the drug policy he recommends: the guarantee of violent crime.
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Joshua Roberts / Reuters Donald Trump No Longer Wants to 'Stay Out' of Syria
His interventionism is a betrayal of all who supported him due to his claim that the U.S. “gets nothing” from the conflict and should “stay out.”
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Gianni Fiorito / Mongrel Media The Film That’s Missing From the ‘Century’s Greatest’ Lists
The Great Beauty excels by offering an unsurpassed meditation on a question that confronts all humans lucky enough to live in modernity.
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David Ryder / Reuters 'You Have to Live With One Another'
A human-rights lawyer advises the left on how to seek advancement in a democracy.
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Eric Thayer / Reuters Donald Trump's 'America Second' Cuba Policy
The president is pursuing a course that will harm American citizens––and that may help his family’s business interests by hurting its corporate rivals.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters The Buck Stops Over There
The commander in chief’s gravest decisions are being delegated to unaccountable generals who’ll be used to insulate him politically if things go wrong.
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Reuters What Do Spy Agencies Tell Foreign Governments About Americans?
A new ACLU freedom of information request aims to find out, in concert with civil society groups abroad seeking similar answers from their countries.
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters Republicans Are a Majority Without a Mandate
The political realities of the Trump-era render the party unable to govern the country effectively, often for reasons of its own making.
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Reuters / Mike Segar How Conservatives Awoke to the Dangers of Sean Hannity
The Fox News host is under attack as never before because many Americans are now forced to take what he says seriously for the first time.
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Neil Hall / Reuters How Far Should Societies Go to Prevent Terror Attacks?
Almost everyone is unwilling to do certain things to eliminate terrorism. And that is fortunate, for the endurance of a free society depends upon it.
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Reuters 'Terrorism Is Aimed at the People Watching'
Tabloid-style coverage of mass murder helps those intent on using violence to stoke fear.
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Alexander Shcherbak / TASS / Getty The World's Worst Negotiation
In a single brief meeting with Russian officials, President Trump not only divulged classified information, he also handed them a damaging account of his decision to fire James Comey
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Yuri Gripas / Reuters The 'Trump Derangement Syndrome' Dodge
Beware trusting pundits who exploit the least defensible critiques of the president to avoid acknowledging his most dangerous flaws.
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Reuters The Fraudulent Populism of Tucker Carlson
The Fox News host attacks a host at a rival network for informing the public by violating an unwritten code among elites.
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Yuri Gripas / Reuters Donald Trump's Loose Lips Vindicate His Critics
The implications of news reports that the president compromised intelligence sources and damaged national security.
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Yuri Gripas / Reuters Trump Finds That Doing Is Harder Than Criticizing
The president embodies the very quality that he attacked as “pathetic” in his commencement address at Liberty University.
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Should Parents Who Refuse to Edit Their Babies' Genes Be Punished?
As I wrote a few weeks ago, advances in biotechnology could make this a pressing question in the near future—and…
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters Donald Trump's Own Words Become 'Exhibit A' Against Him
The president’s interview with Lester Holt exposed White House obfuscation, unethical interactions with James Comey, and circumstantial evidence that the FBI director’s termination was improper.
