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Leah Millis / Reuters ‘Without Personal Honor There Is No Leadership’
Former Secretary of State Rex Tillerson emphasized the importance of truth in a commencement address at Virginia Military Institute that many interpreted as a rebuke to President Trump.
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Amr Alfiky / Reuters How Rhetoric on the Left Fuels Bigotry on the Right
The latest disagreement dividing opponents of Donald Trump
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Douglas C. Pizac / AP Sean Hannity Failed to Tell His Viewers the Truth
The Fox News host should have shared much more about his relationships with Donald Trump and Michael Cohen.
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Leah Millis / Reuters It’s Time for Trump Voters to Face the Bitter Truth
Republicans elected a president who promised to take on D.C.—instead, Trump has presided over an extraordinary auction of access and influence.
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Chris Carlson / AP Rush Limbaugh's Latest Rejection of Conservatism
The talk-radio host’s willingness to indulge the fantasy of a mob marching on D.C. to oust Robert Mueller can be called many things—but not “conservative.”
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Gerry Broome / AP Then the Censors Came for Rap Music
A barista at a coffee shop on the Duke campus was fired because a high-powered administrator took offense to the song she was playing off Spotify.
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Hulton-Deutsch Collection / Corbis via Getty Images Is 'Ladies Lingerie' a Harmless Joke or Harassment?
A dispute among international-relations scholars puts the spotlight on a system that serves everyone poorly.
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Mike Segar / Reuters The 130,000 Bucks That Stopped Everywhere
Team Trump has yet another new story about the money paid to a porn actress days before the 2016 election to keep her from publicly claiming that she had adulterous sex with the candidate.
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Carlos Barria / Reuters Trump's Brazen, Effective Lie
A dubious letter testifying to the president’s health underscores the risks of taking any of his claims at face value.
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Colin Young-Wolff / Invision / AP The Opportunity Costs of Covering Joy Reid
For 12 days, the media has obsessed over a controversy about an MSNBC host out of all proportion to the story's importance.
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Patrick Fallon / Reuters The Danger of a Distorted View of the Right
A case study in how the political left often misunderstands the right
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Mark Makela / Reuters The Cowardice of Covering for Too-Violent Cops
A brutality case in New Jersey illustrates how the failures of law-enforcement agencies to police themselves can be thought of as failures of courage.
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Harris / AP Learning from 1968's Leading Anti-Immigration Alarmist
Enoch Powell gave his xenophobic “Rivers of Blood” speech 50 years ago—but the lessons of its reception still apply today.
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Richard Carson / Reuters Randa Jarrar, Moral Grandstanding, and Forbearance
Fixating on offensive speech amplifies its harms—often, the best course is simply to ignore it.
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Mark Kauzlarich / Reuters The GOP's Problems Are Bigger Than Trump
President Trump’s hold on the Republican Party is overstated. But that doesn’t mean that his downfall would resolve its challenges.
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Yuri Gripas / Reuters The Backlash Against Trump's Syria Strike
Members of Congress in both parties have declared his actions unconstitutional. Will Democrats campaign against their illegality?
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Evan Vucci / AP Trump Loudly Insists That He Is Incompetent
Either the Department of Justice is correct that he surrounded himself with lawbreakers, or the people he chose to run the federal justice system are incompetents and rogues.
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Jason Lee / Reuters A Dissent Concerning Kevin Williamson
When the “bonds of affection” are strained, the spirit of generosity and the virtue of tolerance demand extraordinary measures to avert a break.
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Mario Anzuoni / Reuters How 'Roseanne' Divides the Left
Does the show offer media outlets an opportunity to engage Trump supporters, or present an affront to be shunned by polite society?
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MONTUSE / Dick Iacovello / Penguin Press Behind the Masterpiece: Van Morrison's Astral Weeks at 50
The album was conceived in the milieu of Timothy Leary, recorded with session musicians fresh off commercial-jingle gigs, and only gradually recognized as something like magic.
