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Henry Nicholls / Reuters What Victims Have to Teach Politicians
The terrorist attacks on mosques in New Zealand bring to mind Martin Luther King Jr.’s response to white-supremacist murders.
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Jim Bourg / Reuters The Senate Finds Its Backbone
All Democrats and seven Republicans support a resolution to stop U.S. involvement in Yemen.
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Michael S. Schwartz / Getty Tucker Carlson and the Court of Public Opinion
He’s worthy of opprobrium no matter what he told Bubba the Love Sponge.
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Dado Ruvic / Reuters Don’t Trust Facebook’s New Privacy Play
Mark Zuckerberg has ambitions to control a platform where billions conduct their private, encrypted conversations.
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Eduardo Munoz / Reuters Probing the ‘White People’ Rant That Roiled Columbia
I spoke with Julian von Abele, who insists his words were taken out of context.
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Reuters via U.S. Air Force Trump Just Gave Himself More Power to Kill in Secret
He reversed an Obama-era order requiring the annual publication of drone strikes undertaken by the United States.
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Win McNamee / Getty In Defense of Harvey Weinstein’s Harvard Lawyer
Ronald S. Sullivan Jr. is upholding a vital civic good.
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Dominick Reuter / Reuters The DNC’s Questions for Registered Democrats
An “official 2019 Democratic Party survey” reveals the issues Democrats think will engage their voters.
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Darren Ornitz / Reuters Is Bernie Sanders a Leftist or a Moderate?
It depends on the spectrum that voters use to assess his candidacy.
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Wade Payne / Reuters The Dangers of a Mandatory DNA Database
A controversy in Arizona is a portent of future public-policy fights.
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Leah Millis / Reuters Accused College Students Deserve the Presumption of Innocence
Nineteen attorneys general are lobbying against extending that right in Title IX cases on campus.
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Mario Anzuoni / Reuters The Snowflake in Chief
President Trump suggests that comedy sketches making fun of him warrant “retribution” and investigation.
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Shannon Stapleton / Reuters The Nationalist Case for Amnesty
It wouldn’t just benefit undocumented immigrants—it would benefit millions of American citizens.
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Brian Snyder / Reuters One Cheer for Maine’s Task Force on Police Killings
An overdue attempt to study the use of deadly force underscores the role of mental illness in such incidents, even as it falls short in other respects.
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Jay Paul / Reuters What Ralph Northam’s Defenders Get Right—And Wrong
They believe that American culture’s punitive policing of decades-old behavior is out of control. But it doesn’t follow that Northam should stay.
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Reuters The Costs and Benefits of Worlds Colliding
Readers weigh in on the ways that social media has changed our freedom to show different aspects of our identities in different domains.
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Mike Theiler / Reuters The ACLU Moves to Embrace Due Process on Title IX
The civil-liberties organization now favors many of the protections proposed by Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos.
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Joshua Roberts / Reuters Trump’s Weak Case Against Investigating Trump
The president claimed in his State of the Union address both that bipartisan legislation is impossible if he is subjected to partisan investigations—and that he has already signed several important bipartisan bills into law.
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Rick Wilking / Reuters Democratic Hopefuls Are Embracing a Key Piece of Trump’s Agenda
Even as the president’s own commitment to nonintervention wavers, his 2020 rivals are shifting to oppose more wars.
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Aaron Bernstein / Reuters Why Ralph Northam Should Resign
The best public service he can now render is conserving the strong social stigma against white supremacists.
