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U.S.
House’s Anti-Semitism Resolution Exposes Generational Fight Over Ilhan Omar
The House’s Democratic leadership, responding to statements by Representative Ilhan Omar deemed hurtful to Jews, will put to a vote a resolution condemning anti-Semitism.Anti-semitism is comparable to racism.
Children do not remember The Holicaust.
Some have been hunted and are as sensitized as older Jews.
Israel has passed its paranoia on to Palestinians.
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U.S.
Border at ‘Breaking Point’ as More than 76,000 Unauthorized Migrants Cross in a Month
The number of migrants apprehended on the southwest border is up about 90 percent from levels recorded at the same time last year, the authorities said.There are bad assumptions here.
Treat the asylum seekers as the refugees they are.
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Opinion
Grant’s First Tomb
Ulysses S. Grant, inaugurated as president 150 years ago today, missed a chance to reconstruct the South economically as well as politically.U.S, Grant presided over the failure of Reconstruction.
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Opinion
Luke Perry Had a Stroke and Died. I Had One and Lived.
I had both the privilege of more days and the awareness that those days would be limited.Ok, a good thought.
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Health
Here’s How Strokes Happen When You’re as Young as Luke Perry
The actor’s death leaves middle-age Americans wondering how it could happen — and whether it could happen to them. Here’s what scientists know.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical_students%27_disease
The world has not killed me or you.
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Opinion
Why White People Need Blackface
To understand this degrading practice, we must examine the white face that refuses to see itself in its own monstrous creations.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clown_(disambiguation)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clown
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pueblo_clown
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fool
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jester
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witch
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toussaint_Louverture
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voodoo
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satan
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoroastrianism
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoroastrianism#Theology
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manichaeism
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Opinion
Trump’s TV Trial
A reality show president can’t control the narrative of all these hearings.The "paper chase" is starting.
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U.S.
Rand Paul Opposes Trump’s Emergency Declaration, Likely Providing Decisive Vote
Mr. Paul is the fourth Senate Republican to back a measure to block the president’s attempt to use emergency powers to fund a wall, appearing to give it the support to pass.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rand_Paul
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Paul
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libertarian_Party_(United_States)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold_bug_(disambiguation)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold_standard
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gold-Bug
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Magazine
Michael J. Fox on Parkinson’s, Taking the Wrong Roles and Staying Positive
“Until it’s not funny anymore, it is funny.”Everyone works with what they have.
Sooner is better. As soon as you can is best.
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Style
Momo Is as Real as We’ve Made Her
The real “Momo Challenge” is the terror of parenting in the age of YouTube. Here’s the truth of what we know.Ghost stories are a kid staple.
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Science
One Twin Committed the Crime — but Which One? A New DNA Test Can Finger the Culprit
A handful of criminal prosecutions have stalled because DNA tests cannot distinguish between suspects who are twins. Then scientists decided to create one.Identicle twins do not lead identicle lives.
The prosecutors will need to work for their convictions.
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Opinion
‘Medicare for All’: The Impossible Dream
There’s no plausible route from here to there.David Brooks has built a straw man.
End the private health insurance business by fiat.
The health benefitsare paid for with a payroll tax
The administrators negotiate costs and drug prices.
Private insurance is available as a personal cost.
Everyone is covered.
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Health
Fast-Acting Depression Drug, Newly Approved, Could Help Millions
A nasal spray version of the drug ketamine has shown promise as an antidepressant, even if its properties still aren’t well understood.Continue the FDA process.
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Real Estate
A Pied-à-Terre Becomes Home
A Hudson Valley couple rented a studio so they could spend weekends in New York City. They weren’t planning to move here full time.I do not have that need.
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Opinion
The Next Several Months Will Be Nonstop. Brace Yourself.
With the House Judiciary Committee opening a broad investigation of the Trump business and political enterprise, things are about to get real.Investigate and tie Trump in knots.
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New York
‘Whose Side Are You On?’: Harvard Dean Representing Weinstein Is Hit With Graffiti and Protests
Ronald Sullivan is no stranger to politically sensitive cases, but none has created an uproar like his defense of the film producer Harvey Weinstein in a rape case.Everyone needs a lawyer to deal with the courts.
Most lawyers are mercinaries.
They fight for money.
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Opinion
The State of Russiagate
How the Steele dossier’s scenarios look after Michael Cohen’s testimony.There has been so much noise from the Trump gang that I expect there is something to the Russia noise.
Ross Douthat has an agenda to defend conservatism.
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Business
HBO’s C.E.O., an Emmy Magnet, Steps Down
The departure of the “Game of Thrones”-era chief executive, Richard Plepler, comes after AT&T acquired Time Warner, the network’s former corporate home.Real tallent is rarely lost in reorganizations.
A new production company is probably in the works.
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U.S.
Alternative Colleges, and Their ‘Radical, Communal Ideas,’ Fight for a Future
Experimental schools like Hampshire College were once the cutting edge of academia. Now they’re struggling to stay open.Hampshire college is closing.
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Health
F.D.A. Commissioner Scott Gottlieb, Who Fought Teenage Vaping, Resigns
Initially criticized for his ties to the pharmaceutical industry, Gottlieb, a former venture capitalist, became known for his aggressive regulatory stance in the Trump administration.The Trump disaster continues.
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