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Ever since the 1960s, the Republican Party has been an ever-stronger magnet for white resentment. Donald Trump is the culmination of this Frankenstein-like union of prejudice and…
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The horror wrought by a deranged gunman last week in Dallas, as cruel and callous as it was, should not obscure the larger realities of policing in America, especially but not only when…
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American purchases of the gas-guzzling behemoths had been dropping for years. Now in 2016 when gas prices are much lower, SUV sales are back to the historically high levels they reached…
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In affirming a lower court decision denying that President Barack Obama could use his executive power to shield from deportation certain law abiding undocumented immigrants, the Supreme…
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Gun murders are committed in every country, but the murder rate in the United States is stratospheric compared with the rates in other rich Western countries. Not incidentally, those…
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Donald Trump has, in every possible way, shown himself or has been exposed by journalists to be a whacko, a bigot, and a fraudster, among his many other virtues. Quite a few people look…
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Nearly every week the media reports a cycling fatality somewhere in South Florida. What is needed is non-violent confrontation. What if, for instance, Critical Mass organized an early…
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How did the bad boy, swashbuckling real estate mogul and reality show star with zero political experience, who comes across as a loose cannon, do it?
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The Zika virus appears poised to have a field day in Florida. The state already leads the nation in the number of Zika cases. There are several reasons why Florida is ground zero for…
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Republicans are running around like chickens with their heads cut off trying to figure out how to react to Donald Trump’s stunning takeover of their Grand Old Party.
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