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U.S.
How the State Dept.’s Dissenters Incited a Revolt, Then a Rallying Cry
Shock, anger and sadness are giving way to pride among career diplomats that they are defending American ideals and holding the Trump administration accountable.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_service
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_service#United_States
I appreciate their service.
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U.S.
In Seeking to Join Suit Over Subpoena Power, Mulvaney Goes Up Against the President
In effect, the acting chief of staff hopes the court will tell him whether to listen to his own boss, who wants him to remain silent, or to comply with a subpoena from the House, which wants his testimony.U.S.
Child Abusers Run Rampant as Tech Companies Look the Other Way
Though platforms bar child sexual abuse imagery on the web, criminals are exploiting gaps. Victims are caught in a living nightmare, confronting images again and again.Privacy works both ways.
It protects the spies and the spied uppon.
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Style
Yoga Is Finally Facing Consent and Unwanted Touch
Yoga students and studios are grappling with inappropriate, manipulative and exploitative teachers and teachings.Yoga is a religious practice.
Separation of church and state is the rule in the U.S.
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U.S.
Impeachment Inquiry Tests Ties Between Barr and Trump
The attorney general has not jumped in to publicly defend the president against the Democratic inquiry as he did with the Mueller investigation.William P. Barr has considered his oath.
The Republican party may be going sane.
I will not count on that.
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World
For Quebec, a French Woman May Not Be French Enough
A French woman was denied a certificate she needed before she can settle permanently in Quebec on the grounds that she had not demonstrated sufficient proficiency in French.Puritanism goes beyond religion into language.
It is seen in politics when a group cannot bargain.
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Magazine
Inside Adam Schiff’s Impeachment Game Plan
Democrats believe the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee could be the man to bring down President Trump. This is how he’s running his investigation.Impeachment cannot be defended.
Defense comes at the trial in the Senate.
I will give the investigation only casual attention while it proceeds.
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U.S.
How Voters Turned Virginia From Deep Red to Solid Blue
A new kind of suburbanization is sweeping through politics, from Richmond to Atlanta, Houston, Denver and elsewhere, and Democrats are starting to breach Republicans’ firewalls in elections.Capital culture grew. National Capital.
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Reader Center
‘I Will Never Be German’: Immigrants and Mixed-Race Families in Germany on the Struggle to Belong
Thirty years after Germany’s unification, nearly 500 readers shared with us what it means to be German.Racism is easy.
Racism is infectious.
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U.S.
A Prisoner Who Briefly Died Argues That He’s Served His Life Sentence
A court in Iowa found that a murderer who was revived “is either still alive, in which case he must remain in prison, or he is actually dead, in which case this appeal is moot.”There is a problem with the definition of death.
Benjamin Schreiber is alive.
Death is irreversible.
Benjamin Schreiber must not have died.
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U.S.
What Joe Biden Actually Did in Ukraine
The aims and the aftermath of a legacy project that underscores Mr. Biden’s years of diplomacy — but has been swallowed by the subplot of his son and a Ukrainian gas company.Diplomacy.
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Opinion
How the Insufferably Woke Help Trump
Democrats are insulting and condescending to the swing-state voters they need the most.Puritanism in life does no good.
The Republicans are puritans.
Let them suffer. They will get no help.
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U.S.
Pete Buttigieg Is an Iowa Front-Runner. Will That Help Him Anywhere Else?
National polls have him firmly behind the leading candidates across the country, and questions remain over Mr. Buttigieg’s ability to create a diverse coalition. But in Iowa, he’s on the rise.This is a primary season.
We will see his results.
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Business
Why $4.5 Billion From Big Tech Won’t End California Housing Crisis
Efforts by Apple, Facebook and Google to address the California housing crunch must contend with the forces that created it.Paid work draws the underpaid.
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Books
Book Review: In ‘A Warning,’ Anonymous Author Makes Case Against Re-election
The same official who wrote an Opinion essay in 2018 argues in a new book that the president’s contract shouldn’t be renewed.It is known.
The details matter little.
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U.S.
Sondland Updates Impeachment Testimony, Describing Ukraine Quid Pro Quo
Gordon D. Sondland recounted how he told Ukrainian officials that military aid was tied to their commitment to investigations President Trump wanted.Less fog is important.
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New York
She Was Afraid of Her Husband. Days Later, She and Her 5-Year-Old Were Dead.
A 46-year-old man was found hanging in his bedroom on West 121st Street. His wife and 5-year-old girl had been killed, their throats cut.Self sufficiency is a dangerous ideal.
The loss of hope leads to destruction.
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Opinion
How Scientists Got Climate Change So Wrong
Few thought it would arrive so quickly. Now we’re facing consequences once viewed as fringe scenarios.Science is a way of knowing an area.
Most scientists are in intelectual silos.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_silo
The full horror of global heating has been long known to climate scientists.
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World
Russian Snipers, Missiles and Warplanes Try to Tilt Libyan War
Moscow is plunging deeper into a war of armed drones in a strategic hot spot rich with oil, teeming with migrants and riddled with militants.Putin should know better.
Islam and Greek Orthodoxy are mutually exclusive.
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New York
Trump Called Woman Who Accused Him of Sexual Assault, Records Show
Mr. Trump and Summer Zervos exchanged several calls in 2007 and 2008, including on the day she says he attacked her.#Metoo has not ruined him yet.
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