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West Point is violating the First Amendment with a crackdown on professors, lawsuit says
The U.S. Military Academy at West Point is banning opinions by professors in the classroom and some books and courses in a crackdown that…
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Trump Spends Charlie Kirk Memorial Whining About Own Grievances
Attorney and commentator Norm Eisen—who runs one such group, Democracy Defenders Action—has circulated a draft open letter, titled “An…
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Egypt's president pardons British-Egyptian activist Alaa Abdel Fattah
Egypt's President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi has pardoned the prominent British-Egyptian activist Alaa Abdel Fattah, who has been imprisoned for…
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We Can Smash Antifa Without Designating Them
The tools are already in the hands of law enforcement to treat violent members of Antifa with the seriousness they deserve. Source link
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US: Wall Street opens lower after rally, Trump’s visa crackdown weighs
WALL Street’s main indices opened lower on Monday (Sep 22) after rallying to record highs in the previous session, while uncertainty…
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Labubu craze grows in Germany with opening of new outlet in Berlin
The huge popularity of Labubu soft toys in Germany caused a fresh surge of fans of the creatures on Monday, this time at Berlin's famous…
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Palestinians report 30 more deaths in Gaza from Israeli attacks
Israel continues to target Hamas and other terrorist organizations across the Gaza Strip, Israel's military said on Monday, as…
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Netflix signs co-marketing deal with AB InBev to promote TV shows and beer
NETFLIX and Anheuser-Busch InBev have signed a global co-marketing deal to promote the streaming platform’s most-watched titles and the…
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Stephen Miller’s Charlie Kirk Tribute Was as Sinister as It Gets
Attorney and commentator Norm Eisen—who runs one such group, Democracy Defenders Action—has circulated a draft open letter, titled “An…
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IDF kills Hamas deputy naval commander who partook in Oct. 7
Yousef took part in the October 7 massacre, and helped plan countless ambushes on IDF soldiers during fighting in the Gaza Strip. Iyad Abu…
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UN human rights expert says Russia steps up repression to silence opposition to war in Ukraine
GENEVA (AP) — A U.N. expert monitoring human rights in Russia said Monday that “repression is escalating,” targeting civilians,…
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Transcript: Trump Drug Boat Bombings Get Worse as Damning Info Emerges
Sargent: And then on top of that, Trump’s tweet announcing the second bombing was just sick. It said, quote, all in caps, “be warned if…
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It’s Happened: The United States of America Is No Longer a Democracy
These are all developments that at any other time would have shocked the entire political establishment. Now? We’re used to it. Yes,…
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“The Lowdown” Is a Noir for Our Era
Some actors you can watch doing the same thing over and over again. Cary Grant built a career on smirking suavity; Cate Blanchett has made…
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ICE offers big bucks — but California police officers prove tough to poach
In the push to expand as quickly as possible, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is aggressively wooing recruits with experience…
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The Art of the Impersonal Essay, by Zadie Smith
If it were up to me, for example, I would very happily switch that rickety, always ill-fitting term “humanism” with something broader,…
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The Autocrat of English Usage
In 1940, St. Clair McKelway typed a memo to William Shawn, The New Yorker’s managing editor for fact. McKelway was writing a six-part…
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The Uses and Abuses of “Antisemitism”
How a term coined to describe a nineteenth-century politics of exclusion would become a diagnosis, a political cudgel, and a rallying cry.…
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Ian McEwan Casts the Climate Crisis as a Story of Adultery
At the start of “What We Can Know,” Ian McEwan’s eighteenth novel, the year is 2119 and the humanities are still in crisis. Thomas…
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Reading the New Pynchon Novel in a Pynchonesque America
As for pace, “Shadow Ticket” reads like one of its subplots, about the Trans-Trianon 2000, a two-thousand-kilometre motorcycle circuit…
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More than 90 percent of Gaza border residents return as rebuilding advances
Some 62,000 residents have returned to Gaza border communities. Reconstruction continues, with five key areas still in temporary housing.…
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Germany's Deutsche Bahn presents 'restart' as major delays hit Berlin
Germany's Deutsche Bahn is getting a "restart," Transport Minister Patrick Schnieder said on Monday, as he presented the railway…
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Iran threatens US with "deadly" response
Iran's Islamic Revolution Guard Corps (IRGC) has warned that any miscalculation or act of aggression by the United States or Israel could…
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Trump Drug Boat Bombings Take Darker Turn as Damning New Facts Emerge
Several weeks after President Trump ordered a military strike on a small boat in the Caribbean Sea, killing 11 people supposedly suspected…