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Is Donald Trump on Drugs? If Not, He Should Be. Is Donald Trump on Drugs? If Not, He Should Be.

His true addiction explains the president’s doziness.

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The Gaza Solidarity Encampment at Columbia University

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Hundreds of peaceful protesters began occupying the campus on Wednesday to demand that the university divest from Israel. The next day, the school sent in the NYPD to arrest them….

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The political and media class is doing what it always does with the US and its allies: trying to frame deliberate atrocities as tragic mishaps.

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The Only Thing Worse Than Taking Rural Voters for Granted The Only Thing Worse Than Taking Rural Voters for Granted

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Police patrol outside Columbine High School on April 17, 2019 in Littleton, Colorado, the site of the deadly school shooting in 1999.

25 Years After the Columbine Massacre, Is There Any Hope to End America’s Epidemic of Gun Violence? 25 Years After the Columbine Massacre, Is There Any Hope to End America’s Epidemic of Gun Violence?

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The Milton S. Eisenhower Library at Johns Hopkins University, 1965.

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Pacita Abad Wove the Women of the World Together

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The Unnatural Disaster Threatening Puerto Rico's Children

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Meet Claudia Sheinbaum, Who May Be Mexico’s First Woman President

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