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Tech Giants and ICE; Eco-tage in EU; Suing Trump; Net Neutrality in Cali; A Question of Balance; Scamming the Women's March

It is, after all, about a slice of red-state America at a time of fierce political polarization. In the wake of the 2016 election, traveling to Monrovia—a mostly white town in the vice president’s home state—was hardly an idle or random decision.

Our government is run by rich people — and it benefits them the most.

...this political violence is not happening in isolation. The murder of these 11 Jews in Pittsburgh is inextricably linked to the murder of the two black shoppers in Kentucky, to the slaughter of black worshipers in Charleston in 2015...

In 2017, the number of Palestinian children detained in Israeli prisons reached 1467 children from various parts of the Palestinian territories. Moderator's NOTE: Sound familiar?

According to CNN and one of most widely-used research databases on police criminality, police in the U.S. received 1260 sexual assault charges in a nine-year period, including 405 rapes, 636 acts of sexual fondling and 219 acts of forcible sodomy.

Guantánamo’s tainting of justice should, from early on, have served as a warning. Instead, it seems to have become a template for “justice” in the nation’s capital.

A nation that doesn't remember the people sent to fight on its behalf has no business sending more.

As of 2016, about 80% of people in genetic studies were of European descent. We know humans originated in Africa but we don’t know what we did before we emigrated — we don't know our own history.

The more a leader stokes the hate, the less he can claim that he couldn't have imagined the results.