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[ad_1] People hold up a Black Lives Matter banner as they march during a demonstration against racial inequality in Washington, D.C., June 14, 2020. (Erin Scott/Reuters) What French philosopher Jean-Louis Chrétien would say about Critical Race Theory and the deficiencies of our political discourse. In the aftermath of the Jacob Blake shooting and subsequent riots
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[ad_1] (BackyardProduction/Getty Images) In December 2018, historian Niall Ferguson argued that the political polarization of today’s world mirrors the religious turmoil of Reformation period in the 16th century. The Internet, he claimed, is analogous to the printing press. “Nothing has happened like the impact of the personal computer and the Internet,” Ferguson said, “since the
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[ad_1] President Donald Trump delivers his acceptance speech as the 2020 Republican presidential nominee during the final event of the Republican National Convention on the South Lawn of the White House, August 27, 2020. (Carlos Barria/Reuters) Jeffrey Goldberg, editor in chief of The Atlantic, has authored an incendiary story about President Donald Trump. It accuses
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[ad_1] Over the past two decades, the Fourth Circuit has gone from being arguably the best federal court of appeals to being perhaps the very worst. Yesterday’s en banc ruling in Mayor and City Council of Baltimore v. Azar marks another low. Title X of the Public Health Service Act authorizes the Department of Health
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[ad_1] President Donald Trump delivers his speech during the final event of the Republican National Convention in Washington, August 27, 2020. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters) Many anti-Trump commentators will gasp at the latest claim of shocking, incendiary, offensive, and obnoxious comments from Donald Trump and ask, as they have so many times before, what on earth more
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[ad_1] A Google logo is seen at the company’s headquarters in Mountain View, California, U.S., November 1, 2018. (Stephen Lam/Reuters) The Justice Department is reportedly planning to bring antitrust charges against Google in the coming weeks after Attorney General William Barr decided to move forward over the objections of DOJ lawyers who say they need
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[ad_1] Local residents inspect a post office destroyed during rioting in Minneapolis, Minn., May 31, 2020. (Lucas Jackson/Reuters) Riots have long-lasting consequences. The current period of national unrest and racial turmoil began in Minnesota. It was in Minneapolis that George Floyd died in police custody, sparking protests and a renewed emphasis on criminal-justice reform nationwide.
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[ad_1] Mail-in ballots for the congressional election are dropped off at a drive-through polling location in San Diego, Calif., October 22, 2018 (Mike Blake/Reuters) Mail-in voting could contribute to a 2020 nightmare. There’s a giant scheme afoot to disenfranchise voters in November — it’s called mail-in balloting. Mail-in voting has, like many things in our
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[ad_1] Perhaps the biggest backer of the “college for everyone” movement is the Lumina Foundation. It spends lots of money pushing the notion that what’s holding America back is the fact that a lot of people don’t earn any educational credentials past high school. We’d be much better off if only we had more “attainment.”
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[ad_1] President Donald Trump delivers a campaign speech at Arnold Palmer Regional Airport in Latrobe, Pa., September 3, 2020. (Leah Millis/Reuters) Closing out the week: Matt Taibbi has quietly turned into one of the least predictable and most interesting columnists of the Trump era, and he offers a particularly sharp assessment of the symbiotic relationship
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[ad_1] Investigators move the body of Michael Forest Reinoehl at Tanglewilde Terrace, where law enforcement officers shot the suspect reported in Lacey, Washington, September 4, 2020. (Caitlin Ochs/Reuters) Michael Forest Reinoehl, the suspect in the fatal shooting of a pro-Trump demonstrator during clashes in downtown Portland Saturday night, was shot and killed Thursday by federal authorities in
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[ad_1] A homeless man sleeps on the street.October 24, 2019. (Mohamed al-Sayaghi/Reuters) 1992—Recognizing that “only exceptional circumstances amounting to a judicial usurpation of power will justify the invocation of [the] extraordinary remedy” of a writ of mandamus, the Third Circuit finds (in Haines v. Liggett) that New Jersey federal district judge (and This Day all-star)
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[ad_1] Central American migrants surrender to a U.S. Border Patrol agent south of the U.S.-Mexico border fence in El Paso, Texas, March 6, 2019. (Lucy Nicholson/Reuters) Efforts to cope with the fallout can miss the point. Immigration was not a major theme of the recent Republican convention, but there was one sentence that caught my
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[ad_1] German Chancellor Angela Merkel (Axel Schmidt/Reuters) German chancellor Angela Merkel’s support of the controversial Nord Stream 2 pipeline is coming to a head following her statement yesterday that the poisoning of Russian dissident Alexei Navalny was “attempted murder.” The proper response here would be to end the project, which doubles the capacity of another
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[ad_1] University of Southern California campus in Los Angeles. (Jupiterimages/PHOTOS.com/Getty Images Plus) The University of Southern California has placed a communications professor on leave after a group of black MBA candidates threatened to drop his class rather than “endure the emotional exhaustion of carrying on with an instructor that disregards cultural diversity and sensitivities” following
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[ad_1] National Guard officers unload an armoured vehicle filled with soldiers outside of the courthouse in Kenosha, Wis., August 30, 2020. (Jim Vondruska/Reuters) From that much-discussed “wargame” that played out various election scenarios and foresaw catastrophes in every scenario except a landslide win for Joe Biden: In one exercise, for instance, Team Trump’s repeated allegations
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[ad_1] I’ve learned that the Federal Judicial Center—“the research and education agency of the judicial branch of the U.S. government”—is sponsoring a 90-minute webinar on October 9 on “Election Litigation During the COVID-19 Pandemic.” The webinar is being held for all federal district judges and their law clerks in anticipation of litigation in connection with
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[ad_1] Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg testifies before the House Energy and Commerce Committee, April 11, 2018. (Leah Millis/Reuters) Facebook will ban new political ads during the week leading up to the general election on November 3, the company’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced Thursday. “The U.S. elections are just two months away, and with Covid-19 affecting communities
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[ad_1] White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany holds a daily press briefing in Washington, D.C., August 31, 2020. (Leah Millis/Reuters) White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany said President Trump was not encouraging anyone to “do anything unlawful” when he suggested on Wednesday that voters should test election security by voting once by mail and again
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[ad_1] New York Governor Andrew Cuomo speaks inside of the New York Stock Exchange after reopening amid the outbreak of the coronavirus in New York, N.Y., May 26, 2020. (Lucas Jackson/Reuters) New York Governor Andrew Cuomo warned Wednesday that President Trump had “better have an army” to ensure his safety if he visits New York
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