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America Is Abandoning Its Edge Over China (opens the original)
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By all accounts, Xi Jinping’s state visit to Washington produced remarkably little.Three days of cannon salutes, flyovers, military reviews and a state dinner stocked with tech billionaires yielded a two-month extension of the trade truce reached last fall, when Washington backed off triple-digit tariffs and Beijing eased restrictions on critical minerals. They agreed to lower tariffs on $30 billion in goods and promised to keep talking.Meanwhile, two Chinese <a href="https://thehill.com/policy/
Fascism, Truth, and Small Acts of Courage (opens the original)
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Historian Tim Snyder just returned from Ukraine, where late-night air raid sirens gave him plenty of time to reflect on risk. Watching Ukrainian citizens defend their democracy under unfathomable pressure makes one thing clear: their extraordinary courage makes our smaller acts of bravery possible over here. Snyder is a professor and author of books like Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin and On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century. He’s an expert on the subjects of fasci
A Controversial Voter Database Is Back in Play Before the Midterms (opens the original)
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With less than six weeks to go before the midterm elections, the Supreme Court has cleared the way for the Trump administration to deploy a federal voter eligibility database that voter advocacy groups have sued to block, arguing it could lead to voter roll purges. For years, Trump has claimed noncitizen voting is a widespread problem, though numerous <a href="https://bipartisanpo
The Vigilantes: Episode 2 (opens the original)
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It should have been a leisurely Saturday off work for 13-year-old Mary Phagan, who was looking forward to celebrating the Confederate Memorial Day holiday. It should have been an easy day for Leo Frank, too, who hoped to leave his job at the factory early to go to the local baseball game with his wife. It should have been a carefree day for 16-year old Grace Hicks, who was enjoying a rare day off, and waiting for her friend to join her at the parade.It was anything but a beautiful, joyful, restf
What Do We Owe Each Other? (opens the original)
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My client spent two hours setting up for her birthday party. She’d sent e-vites three weeks in advance. She assembled a drink station with everyone’s favorites and made a playlist. Twenty people had said they’d come. Instead, four showed up, and three of them left early.She sat on her couch at 9 p.m., surrounded by unopened bags of chips and melting ice, thinking, “What did I do wrong?”As a therapist, I spend my days trying to get people connected to community. Connection is the foundation of ev
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