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Keeping Impeachment Simple 0
- History
- December 12, 2019
Last night, the House Judiciary Committee (HJC) began debate on the two articles of impeachment unveiled earlier this week by HJC chairman Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-NY). Despite recent talk about cluttering the articles with Emoluments Clause and Mueller probe accusations, in the end the Democratic leadership decided none of those charges sparked joy. The articles set for markup today focus
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Five Infuriating Takeaways From the ‘Afghanistan Papers’0
- International
- December 12, 2019
After an extensive investigation and a three-year long Freedom of Information Act legal battle, The Washington Post released a trove of documents entitled the Afghanistan Papers Monday, and there’s a staggering amount of infuriating information contained therein. The trove comes from a project entitled “Lessons Learned” commissioned by the Office of the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR.) As
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The Trump Administration’s Dangerous Facial Surveillance Scheme 0
- Politics
- December 11, 2019
Planning on boarding a flight to Prague, Beijing, or Toronto? Even if you’re a U.S. citizen, the government may soon be using your trip as an excuse to step on your civil rights. A new rule proposed by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) would amend the agency’s current biometric practices – which are limited to non-citizens
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Students’ Test Scores Unchanged After Decades of Federal Intervention in Education 0
- Education
- December 11, 2019
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How Much Can One Person Accomplish in a Day?0
- Culture
- December 11, 2019
Twenty-four hours, 1,440 minutes, 86,400 seconds. There’s a lot of time in a day: time to be productive and make the most out of life. Rarely, though, do we even come close to pursuing what we ought, or what we actually want, to do. Instead, we spend it on things that we regret. Take TV.
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Epstein Scandal Proves Monarchy Is More Answerable to the People Than Democracy 0
- Culture
- December 11, 2019
A huge number of famous individuals have been named in the Jeffrey Epstein scandal. The late pedophile’s connections included many elected officials like President Donald Trump, former President Bill Clinton, former New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson, and former Israeli President Ehud Barak. To date, though, there is only one person who has paid a heavy
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Artwork Made From Old Bananas Shows Value Is Subjective 0
- Culture
- December 11, 2019
Last week, Miami art gallery Art Basel sold, for $120,000, a piece of art composed of a banana duct taped to a wall. At least one other identical piece sold for a similar amount. A third piece was priced at $150,000. The banana used in the display is a real banana, and on Saturday, a
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Life After Flight from Castro’s Cuba 0
- Culture
- December 10, 2019
When Mercedes (“Mercy”) Rodriguez arrived in America on a fall day in 1979, the first thing she noticed was how clean and wide the streets were. The 15-year-old Cuban refugee had just arrived on a plane carrying nearly a dozen political prisoners, including her father and brothers. They had been blacklisted and then detained for
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Kids and Sexuality: Enough Is Enough 0
- Culture
- December 10, 2019
Stop. No, that’s not enough. To paraphrase “the girl” in Hemingway’s story “Hills Like White Elephants,” “Would you please please please please please please please stop?” Second-graders at a swimming pool should not be placed in an adult changing room. Anyone with a grain of sense understands this concept. In Asheville, North Carolina, I used
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Keeping Impeachment Simple 0