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After Ayala Metzger's relatives were kidnapped from Nir Oz and abandoned by the government, she had no choice but to become an ‘anti-regime dissident’ — and insist on a shared Israeli-Palestinian future.

I do not want to live in a world where the rich are dragged from their limos and beaten. But I do think that world is a lot more likely to be realized because of the modus operandi of UHC and its cohort.

Nikki Giovanni, as a writer, she tackled race, gender, sex, politics and love. She was also a public intellectual who appeared on television and toured the country.

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Newspaper headlines have called Donald Trump’s victory “decisive,” “massive,” “resounding,” “historic,” and “sweeping.” None of those things are true. Recent public opinion polls reveal that Trump’s professed policy agenda is very unpopular.

As the world churns

Today on TAP: Why does the supposed advocate for the elderly steer them to the industry’s worst insurer?

"These two senators effectively handed Trump control of the board when his term begins," noted one observer.

Mothers were reported after they were given medications used routinely for pain or in epidurals, to reduce anxiety or to manage blood pressure during cesarean sections.