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Omar Sanadiki / Reuters The U.S. Teeters on the Edge of Another Catastrophic War
As editorial boards cheer him on, Trump is weighing action against the regime in Syria.
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Embassy Pictures The Graduate 50 Years After Its Oscar Win
Revisiting a film embraced by the 1968 generation
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Gary Caskey / Reuters Can Gun-Control Advocates Make the NRA Toxic?
The fight over firearms is fast becoming a test case for the potential, and limits, of stigma in U.S. politics.
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Mike Blake / Reuters A Georgia Republican's Unethical Revenge
Lieutenant Governor Casey Cagle led the charge to punish Delta, after the Atlanta-based airline ended its affiliation with the NRA.
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Jonathan Drake / Reuters The Kind of Courage America Demands of Its Police
The president is calling a sheriff’s deputy who failed to confront an active shooter a coward—a word seldom applied to officers who choose to protect themselves by shooting.
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Reuters / Mario Anzuoni Better 'Lisa Simpson 2020' Than Four More Years of Homer
The Republican Party is full of honorable, competent people—yet it now aims no higher than the embodiment of its most buffoonish stereotypes.
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Mike Blake / Reuters 'Sex Invades the Schoolhouse'
Fifty years ago, panicked parents helped spread sex-ed programs to schools across the country, even as panicked critics mobilized to stop them.
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Justin Sullivan / Getty A Mentor's Advice to UCLA's Campus Republicans
The sociologist Gabriel Rossman offered valuable advice to UCLA students on the responsibilities that accompany free speech—and modeled the importance of having conservative faculty on campus.
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Ognen Teofilovski / Reuters The Excesses of Call-Out Culture
The outrage directed against the New York Times writer Bari Weiss is the latest illustration of a culture that undermines the causes it seeks to advance.
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Reuters How Two Police Drones Saved a Woman's Life
An innovative use of the surveillance technology in Virginia offers a reminder that there are often alternatives to confrontation.
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WSVN.com / Reuters American Carnage
“Your child isn’t going to be shot,” Donald Trump vowed. It was a promise he could never have kept—but there’s no evidence he even tried.
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters When Deplorability Is No Longer a Dealbreaker
A case study in the political right’s capitulation to Trump, and the threat it poses to its political future.
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Toru Hanai / Reuters A Better Way to Look at Most Every Political Issue
Americans would be less alienated from one another and solve problems more easily if they recognized one little-noticed distinction in policy debates.
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Reuters The False-Accuser-in-Chief
President Trump tweeted his concern that “lives are being shattered and destroyed by a mere allegation”—but he has spent his career making outrageous, unsubstantiated claims about others.
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AFP / Getty Peggy Fleming and the 1968 Winter Olympics
Fifty years ago in Grenoble, France, American figure skating’s modern era was born.
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Jim Bourg / Reuters The Populist Right's Elitist Approach to Surveillance Abuses
If only the Republican Party were as attentive to the violations of the rights of ordinary Americans as it is to the FBI's treatment of Donald Trump
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Carlo Allegri / Reuters A New Leader in the Push for Diversity of Thought on Campus
Professor Debra Mashek is leaving a tenured job at Harvey Mudd College to lead Heterodox Academy.
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Mussa Qawasma / Reuters The Constitutional Right to Boycott
In Kansas, where a public school teacher was punished by the state for declining to buy items made in Israel, a federal court has issued a ruling that’s good news for free speech advocates.
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters No, Trump Will Not 'Hit Reset' With His State of the Union
An attack on one of the most inapt metaphors in American politics
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Department of the Navy The Battle of Khe Sanh and Its Retellings
What one Vietnam War battle, celebrated by the press and the military as a turning point towards an inevitable American victory, says about certainty and authoritativeness.
