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December 3, 2019

Opinion— “Imagined Slights”

There is a major, perhaps intractable problem with combating the hatred and ignorance rampant in U.S. society and politics today. Recently I found a way to verbalize it. In early 2009 I found myself spending a good deal of time in close quarters for work with a fellow who always …

November 25, 2019

Bulletin Board: “Federal Action at Last for Missing and Murdered Native American Women?”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQdRvVdeROU Press Release: Attorney General William P. Barr Launches National Strategy to Address Missing and Murdered Indigenous Persons Federal prosecutors and the FBI to enhance investigations into Missing Persons, and Develop Protocols for Law Enforcement, Improvements to Data Collection and Analyses, Training and Technical Assistance Attorney General William P. Barr …

November 21, 2019

Opinion—Trump’s New Policy on Israeli Settlements Is Illegal and Self-Serving

  An Israeli election banner bearing the portraits of President Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu hangs on the facade of a building in Jerusalem, Israel, on September 14, 2019. AHMAD GHARABLI / AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES Thumbing his nose at the Geneva Convention, the Rome Statute, the UN …

November 14, 2019

The Week In Congress: H Res 660 the “Impeachment Resolution” Changes the Rules of Impeachment in a Partisan Way, and Hides Information from the Public

https://youtu.be/rQZVhbujvm8 H Res 660 the “Impeachment Resolution” changes the rules of impeachment in a partisan way, and hides information from the public. It was passed recently and raises major red flags. We are not partisan, but there is no way to escape the conclusion that this Resolution is written to …

November 2, 2019

The Week In Congress: Is Gov’t Getting in Bed with Facebook?

A number of small business bills, a law against videos about crushing animals (for real)—but also, alarmingly, a bill to get foreign influence out of social media ads (yay) but one that sneaks also in new ways for government to manage speech online and to make sure that only established candidates …

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