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What Happens Next with Europe’s New Regulation of Big Tech

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What Peace in Afghanistan Might Mean

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Congresss Has Always Been Partisan

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How Lincoln Healed a Divided America

Abraham Lincoln repeatedly tops polls as our greatest and most revered president. But few people thought so on March 4, 1865, when he took the oath of office for the second time.On that day, America...

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What Happens Next in Ireland

Political drama in Britain and Ireland continues… but not because of Brexit (mercifully).Roughly a week after the UK officially left the EU, Ireland held elections that catapulted Sinn Fein from political periphery to possible king-maker...

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Defense Budget Misses the Future of War

The massive 2021 Department of Defense budget that the White House sent to Congress clocks in at $740.5 billion, with $705.4 billion earmarked for the Pentagon – the remainder to the Department of Energy and...

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A Chaplain on How to Talk About the Right to Die and Death With Patients

Martha Kay Nelson has had a long career in hospice work. Rather than choosing hospice work, she believes hospice work chose her. Her training was at Harvard Divinity School. She did a yearlong internship as...

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What Happens Next with America’s Electoral Legitimacy

It was bound to be an eventful week for U.S. politics, with the impeachment trial of Donald Trump wrapping up the same week as the State of the Union. We got all that drama and...

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How Our Modern World Creates Outbreaks Like Coronavirus

“Everyone knows that pestilences have a way of recurring in the world,” observes Albert Camus in his novel The Plague. “Yet somehow we find it hard to believe in ones that crash down on our...

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Mitt Romney’s Honorable Stand Reaffirmed the Wisdom of Impeaching Trump

Wednesday, February 6 was supposed to be a moment of pure triumph for Donald Trump. The day after he delivered the State of the Union – and the same week that Democrats struggled to announce...

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The Dangerous Idea at the Heart of Trump's Acquittal

We are moving towards a democracy driven by the market, not the rule of law

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Trump’s Acquittal Would Be a Dangerous Transfer of Power From Congress to the President

The central question built in to any form of government is how to control the government itself after we give it power over our lives. The Romans summed it up with a simple question, Quis...

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Global Solidarity, Collaboration and Urgent Action Needed to Defeat the New Coronavirus Outbreak

Once in a very rare while, a single, serious challenge consumes the attention of the entire world.We are living through one such period today as countries and communities come together to end the new coronavirus...

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Why We Are So Ill-Prepared for a Possible Pandemic Like Coronavirus

We were surprised in 2002 when a new coronavirus called SARS emerged from southern China and spread to 17 countries, causing more than 8,000 disease cases and nearly 800 deaths. We were surprised in 2009...

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The Pandemic of Xenophobia and Scapegoating

Even as public health experts race to contain the novel coronavirus outbreak, a potentially more fearsome and shadowy pandemic—aimed at uninfected people unjustly fingered as potential carriers—grows. Calls for bans on the movement of peoples...

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The Education Reform Movement Has Failed America. We Need Common Sense Solutions That Work.

The education reform movement that started with George W. Bush’s No Child Left Behind law is dead. It died because every strategy it imposed on the nation’s schools has failed. From Bush’s No Child Left...

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President Trump's Peace Plan Is the Latest in a Century of Outrageous Deals for the Palestinians

Once again, a tawdry deal has been done over the heads of the Palestinians, in their absence, and ignoring their rights – indeed their very existence as a people. As with the Balfour Declaration of...

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Boko Haram Refugees Find Safety in Niger. But How Long Can the Country Remain a Safe Haven in the Sahel?

The gunshots began in the middle of the night late in 2018. Ali Bakara, a twenty-eight-year old mother of eight, was jolted awake. It was three o’clock in the morning in her village near Maiduguri,...

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How the Trump Administration's Israel-Palestine Peace Plan Will Change the Middle East

Over the last two days, I received an exclusive early look at President Donald Trump’s proposed plan to resolve the Israel-Palestine conflict. The effort was led by the president’s son-in-law and senior advisor, Jared Kushner....

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