Migrants in Guantánamo On February 4, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) released photos of the first “criminal aliens” to be flown to Guantánamo Bay. The migrants, shackled and wearing...
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Gross Pay Of the estimated fourteen thousand firefighters who took on the devastating wildfires throughout the Los Angeles area in January, approximately one thousand were...
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Toxic Relationship Six months ago, Benjamin Netanyahu said the war in Gaza was on the verge of ending. Yet one year after the Hamas attacks of October 7, Israel’s bombardment continues. Among the...
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The Case that Never Ends Clayton G. Trivett Jr., a trial attorney and a lieutenant commander in the Navy Reserve, started prosecuting cases at Guantánamo Bay as a Navy lieutenant...
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A New Arms Race Among the many issues that don’t get the attention they deserve on newspaper front pages and in presidential debates, one in particular stands out as both...
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Whitewashing War Crimes Catch-22 author Joseph Heller would have recognized the language and logic of the State Department’s recent report to Congress on the possibility that Israel has used...
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A Show of Force on the Subway In early March, in response to a 45 percent spike in major crimes on the subway at the beginning of the year, New York governor Kathy Hochul...
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A Different Phase In May 2023, the state of Oregon quietly broke with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) Covid-related quarantine recommendations....
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Supreme Chutzpah On May 4, 1969, Supreme Court justice Abe Fortas resigned following revelations that he had accepted $20,000 in payment from a foundation controlled by Louis E. Wolfson, a friend...
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Heat Check Because of wildfires in Canada, the sky above New York City turned orange in June. Smoke partially eclipsed the sun and caused the worst air-quality levels on record for the city. Most...
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Paying the Ransom In 2011, the last time the country faced a debt-ceiling showdown, Republican lawmakers took away an important lesson: economic extortion and political brinkmanship are good...
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The FBI’s ‘Anti-Catholic’ Memo It’s easy to make fun of the leaked FBI memo that proposed infiltrating radical-traditionalist Catholic organizations to gather intelligence on the violent...
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Qatar & the World Cup In 2010, when Qatar won the rights to host this year’s World Cup, Sepp Blatter, then president of football’s governing body (FIFA), proudly...
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