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May 27, 2022
The timeline for the Uvalde massacre is becoming clearer. After shooting his grandmother in the face and taking her truck, the gunman got to Robb Elementary School at 11:28 Tuesday morning and started firing into the school windows. A police officer responded to a call about the…
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May 26, 2022
One of the key things that drove the rise of the current Republican Party was the celebration of a certain model of an ideal man, patterned on the image…
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May 26, 2022
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May 25, 2022
All day, I have been coming back to this: How have we arrived at a place where 90% of Americans want to protect our children from gun violence, and yet…
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May 25, 2022
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May 24, 2022
Today, a gunman murdered at least 19 children and 2 adults at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas. For years now, after one massacre or another, I…
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May 24, 2022
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May 23, 2022
Scandals today, and be forewarned: the first deals with sexual assault. If you want to skip over it, the next one starts about nine paragraphs down…
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May 23, 2022
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May 22, 2022
I am in Boston, trying to get my ducks in a row to finish a new book and to pick up threads abandoned when the pandemic hit, and I have gone a little…
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May 22, 2022
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May 21, 2022
On May 22, 1964, in a graduation speech at the University of Michigan, President Lyndon Johnson put a name to a new vision for the United States. He…
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May 20, 2022 (Friday)
As the hearings on the events of January 6th and the attempt to overturn the 2020 election approach, the extent of the operation is becoming clearer…
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