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On the Fourth of July, members of the military are calling on Congress to protect service members who disobey the president’s immoral or unlawful orders.

MMA was once used to curry favor with Putin. Now, Trump is using the UFC to project a nationalist cult of masculinity

The tribunal will focus on the crime of aggression against Ukraine, but Putin is immune while in office. Even with its limitations, it is a significant step towards the first court to prosecute the crime of aggression since Nuremberg and Tokyo.

Christian Zionism is again salient as Donald Trump surrounds himself with Evangelicals who profess the ideology and he pays lip service to it, as he does to other popular Evangelical convictions. Many Christian Zionists believe end-times are nigh.

Adult brains grow new neurons, and scientists have finally pinpointed where they come from. These new findings settle a major dispute that neuroscientists have been arguing about for more than 60 years.

As ICE agents run amok, Latino cities and communities have been compelled to cancel their celebrations.

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In honor of the late Archbishop Desmond Tutu, and all those who refuse to be silenced on Israeli apartheid and genocide by bogus claims that denouncing those abuses amounts to hatred of Jews. Written in 2007, re-posted by the author this past week.

For the first time, required pre-authorizations are coming to traditional Medicare. The Trump administration proposes to extend pre-authorizations to traditional Medicare, just like Medicare Advantage. This maneuver has gotten little attention.