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Trump has no plan to reunite the families he ripped apart

Trump has no plan to reunite the families he ripped apart

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The Daily Beast reports: Immigrant families won’t be separated anymore, thanks to a new order from President Trump, but that doesn’t mean families will be reunited. Trump signed an executive order on Wednesday ending the practice of taking children away from parents who enter the U.S. illegally. Already, though, more than 2,000 children have been separated, according to the government, and advocates and attorneys for them fear they will never see their parents again. Despite Trump’s order, there is no…

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Trump’s racism is impossible to hide

Trump’s racism is impossible to hide

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David A Graham writes: One of the paradoxes of modern-day American politics is that white identity politics can be a potent political platform, as long as you don’t call it that. Policies with racist effects are often popular; explicit racism is verboten. Thus Donald Trump can win the presidency while running, as my colleague Adam Serwer documented, on a program of discrimination, but when Corey Stewart, a Republican politician in Virginia, makes his white-identity politics too explicit he gets shunned…

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The easiest way of reducing crime in America is to welcome more immigrants, both legal and undocumented

The easiest way of reducing crime in America is to welcome more immigrants, both legal and undocumented

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Christopher Ingraham writes: The Trump administration’s hard-line immigration policies are predicated, in part, upon the notion that immigrants who are in the country illegally represent a threat to public safety. The White House, for instance, has sent out regular email blasts to reporters with alarmist accounts of crime committed by undocumented immigrants. President Trump has frequently exaggerated the threat posed by MS-13, a criminal gang originating in Los Angeles whose members tend to be from Central American countries. On Tuesday…

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How Trump, Netanyahu, and the Gulf states plan to fight Iran

How Trump, Netanyahu, and the Gulf states plan to fight Iran

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Adam Entous writes: On the afternoon of December 14, 2016, Ron Dermer, Israel’s Ambassador to the United States, rode from his Embassy to the White House to attend a Hanukkah party. The Obama Administration was in its final days, and among the guests were some of the President’s most ardent Jewish supporters, who were there to bid him farewell. But Dermer, like Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, did not share their sense of loss. For the Israeli leadership, the Trump Presidency…

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It can happen here

It can happen here

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Cass R. Sunstein writes: Liberal democracy has enjoyed much better days. Vladimir Putin has entrenched authoritarian rule and is firmly in charge of a resurgent Russia. In global influence, China may have surpassed the United States, and Chinese president Xi Jinping is now empowered to remain in office indefinitely. In light of recent turns toward authoritarianism in Turkey, Poland, Hungary, and the Philippines, there is widespread talk of a “democratic recession.” In the United States, President Donald Trump may not…

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What’s happening in Trump’s America is as evil and criminal as what happened to me and my siblings in Nazi Europe

What’s happening in Trump’s America is as evil and criminal as what happened to me and my siblings in Nazi Europe

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Yoka Verdoner writes: The events occurring now on our border with Mexico, where children are being removed from the arms of their mothers and fathers and sent to foster families or “shelters”, make me weep and gnash my teeth with sadness and rage. I know what they are going through. When we were children, my two siblings and I were also taken from our parents. And the problems we’ve experienced since then portend the terrible things that many of these…

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For Trump, ‘space is a war-fighting domain’

For Trump, ‘space is a war-fighting domain’

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Peter Wismer writes: President Trump is fond of suggesting that the five branches of the U.S. armed forces are not enough. On Monday, he directed the Defense Department to create a Space Force as the sixth branch of the U.S. military, saying “We are going to have the Air Force and we are going to have the Space Force, separate but equal.” This follows a statement the president made in March while address the Miramar Marine Corps Air Station, in…

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Until Americans have to pay for war, they won’t demand peace

Until Americans have to pay for war, they won’t demand peace

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Sarah Kreps writes: Crises and controversies involving Iran and North Korea have dominated the foreign affairs news recently, so it is all too easy to forget that the United States remains involved in the two longest — and costliest — wars of its history: Afghanistan and Iraq. The war in Afghanistan started in 2001 and continues to this day. The Iraq War, begun in 2003, still involves between 5,000 and 9,000 American troops. Those conflicts have cost a combined $2…

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Thousands of children are imprisoned across Africa. They need justice

Thousands of children are imprisoned across Africa. They need justice

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Graça Machel writes: The legendary editor of the Guardian newspaper CP Scott famously declared in 1921 that “Comment is free, but facts are sacred”. Unfortunately, when it comes to hard evidence on how many children are locked up in prisons, detention centres, migrant and refugee camps, rehabilitation units or other institutions across the world, the facts are more scarce than sacred. There is no single source of accurate data for these figures and estimates vary widely between 15,000 and 28,000…

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The press needs to sandwich Trump’s lies between thick slices of reality

The press needs to sandwich Trump’s lies between thick slices of reality

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Margaret Sullivan writes: Last week was a particularly rough one for journalists and truth-seeking citizens. President Trump declared the news media the nation’s worst enemy. And time after shocking time, his acolytes demeaned or threatened reporters for doing one of their most basic jobs: asking questions of those in power. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told a reporter in North Korea that it was “insulting and ridiculous and ludicrous” for him to be asked about details of the verification process…

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What’s going on at the border is horrifying, but we can’t go numb and turn away

What’s going on at the border is horrifying, but we can’t go numb and turn away

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Dahlia Lithwick writes: As a purely descriptive matter, it’s surely true: We are all going numb. As Donald Trump makes war with Canada and peace with dictators and human rights abusers, the narrative is that everyone’s lost all feeling. Polls show the public believes that Trump paid off a porn star, and they don’t care. They believe that he lies habitually, and they also don’t care. A Pew poll released last week showed that nearly 7 in 10 Americans “feel…

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Laura Bush: Separating children from their parents at the border ‘breaks my heart’

Laura Bush: Separating children from their parents at the border ‘breaks my heart’

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Former first lady of the United States, Laura Bush, writes: On Sunday, a day we as a nation set aside to honor fathers and the bonds of family, I was among the millions of Americans who watched images of children who have been torn from their parents. In the six weeks between April 19 and May 31, the Department of Homeland Security has sent nearly 2,000 children to mass detention centers or foster care. More than 100 of these children…

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Child abuse is now part of America’s official immigration policy

Child abuse is now part of America’s official immigration policy

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Michael Paarlberg writes: It’s impossible to look at the Trump administration’s practice of migrant family separation and see it as anything other than what it is: institutionalized child abuse. By now, there have been real horror stories: parents hearing their children screaming in the next room; a man who committed suicide when his three-year-old was taken from him; children kept in what Oregon senator Jeff Merkley described as a “dog kennel”; a woman being told by a border patrol agent:…

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Doctors concerned about ‘irreparable harm’ to children ripped apart from their parents by the U.S. government

Doctors concerned about ‘irreparable harm’ to children ripped apart from their parents by the U.S. government

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NPR reports: In South Texas, pediatricians started sounding the alarm weeks ago as migrant shelters began filling up with younger children separated from their parents after they crossed the U.S.-Mexico border illegally. The concerned pediatricians contacted Colleen Kraft, president of the American Academy of Pediatrics, and she flew to Texas and visited a shelter for migrant children in the Rio Grande Valley. There, she saw a young girl in tears. “She couldn’t have been more than 2 years old,” Kraft…

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Arron Banks, Brexit and the Russia connection

Arron Banks, Brexit and the Russia connection

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Carole Cadwalladr reports: On 11 March 2016, three months before the European referendum, and long before anyone had started to wonder about foreign interference in the two political cataclysms of 2016 – Brexit and Trump – the Russian embassy in London put out a press release. Philip Hammond, the foreign secretary, had made a speech at Chatham House a few days earlier. A speech in which he noted that “the only country who would like us to leave the EU…

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Trump takes his party back to the 1920s

Trump takes his party back to the 1920s

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Peter Beinart writes: The last few days—as President Donald Trump has savaged America’s allies over trade, demanded that they readmit Russia to the G7, and embraced North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un—make something clear: Cold War conservatism is dead. What’s replacing it resembles less the foreign-policy outlook that has animated conservatives since World War II than the sentiment that prevailed before it. In the 1920s, conservative Presidents Warren Harding, Calvin Coolidge, and Herbert Hoover rejected both binding alliances and the…

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