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To fight corruption, Congress should give itself a raise
We need to encourage less wealthy people to enter service.
Censorship, violence and lies — the ‘Lost Cause 2.0’
The point is creating conditions for doing horrible things.
Terrorism is an attempt to intimidate a civilian population to achieve political ends. Trucker siege checks those boxes
Trudeau has finally acted decisively.
‘Against stupidity we are defenseless’
The “freedom convoy,” anti-vaxxers and why a Lutheran minister murdered by the Nazis thought that evil wasn’t the worst thing.
That ‘freedom convoy’ in Ottawa? It’s partly inspired by a biblical account of divine massacre
Welcome to the Jericho March.
Rape victims are damned if they do, damned if they don’t
Hundreds of thousands of rapes are reported but evidence ignored. Hundreds of thousands of rapists are free to rape again.
‘Do we want to live in a world where Putin calls the shots?’
Patriots say no. Rightwingers say maybe.
The dream of free community college is dead, because some private colleges and universities don’t want the competition
They don’t get it, because they won’t.
The truth won’t speak for itself
The Democrats can’t trust the press and pundit corps to explain to the American people that democracy as they know it is under assault.