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John Bolton Leads an Assault on the Truth
John Bolton is an unusual pick for Trump’s national security adviser. As a Bush administration alum, he, in as recently as 2016, said that he would “still overthrow Saddam Hussein” if he had known...
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Thomas’s SCOTUS Abortion Dissent Accepts Discrimination
Early Monday morning, the US Supreme Court made its first significant ruling on abortion since its 2007 decision on the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act, supporting clinics’ rights to litigate against...
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Explaining Snowden, Petraeus, Manning, and Clinton
In the aftermath of FBI Director James Comey’s recommendation against charges for Hillary Clinton’s email server, typical Republican and left-wing anti-establishment outrage flooded the media....
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Murder and Militias—Iraq’s Sunni-Shiite Plan After ISIS
Since ISIS’s losses of 45% of its Iraqi territory over the past two years, we may be approaching the end of the war on ISIS. The conflict’s progression nevertheless raises hard questions about the...
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Fugue of Civilian Death in Iraqi, Syrian ISIS Combat
While the United States was transfixed by the Republican National Convention, wire reports of an American airstrike killing dozens of Syrian civilians began pouring in. The low estimate from the Syrian...
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Jill Stein: The Liberal Pseudo-Scientific Demagogue
The cringe-worthy Trump-Clinton race has led Bernie Sanders’ supporters to shift their support to protest candidates like Jill Stein. As a true liberal, they say, she is eminently qualified to lead the...
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Two-Faced Hypocrisy of Republican Religious Freedom
The Syrian refugee crisis has lately become political cannon fodder for a supposed clash between Muslim and Western values. Donald Trump and American conservative media organizations like the Daily...
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Media’s Mix-Up of ISIS Branches Fuels ISIS’s Terrorism
The global string of terrorist attacks linked to the Islamic State has broadened the War on Terror’s debate over the past two years. Today, combating ISIS not only means fighting its core in Iraq and...
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As Elections Are Delayed, Palestine Suppresses Speech
On September 8, the Palestinian high court in Ramallah postponed the Palestinian local elections due for October. Against the backdrop of Israel’s ludicrous arrest of a Mohammed el-Halabi, a director...
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In Russia-U.S. Deal, West Leaves Syrian Islamist Mess
Although no official documentation is publicly available, the latest cease-fire negotiated by the US and Russia has been criticized as unusually vague, nontransparent, and weak. But in the seemingly...
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