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Saturday, June 15, 2019

Editorial: Trump’s Twitter Trade Wars

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Donald Trump has brought attention to trade issues, but, as we feared, he has given tariffs a bad name by waging trade wars via Twitter, mai...

Selections from the July 1-15, 2019 issue

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COVER/Art Cullen Anxious farmers search for rainbow amid floods and trade war EDITORIAL Trump’s Twitter trade wars LETTERS TO THE EDITOR...
Thursday, June 6, 2019

Trump decision to cancel refugee children’s soccer & school follows the centuries-old American tradition of cruelty to non-Europeans in the frontier & at the border

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By Marc Jampole Under the leadership of Donald Trump, the Republican Party has graduated from pursuing Ronald Reagan’s politics of self...
Wednesday, May 29, 2019

Mathematical models for everything from marketing to perusing resumes are making inequality & discrimination against the poor & minorities worse

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By Marc Jampole Cathy O’Neil’s Weapons of Math Destruction doesn’t break new ground in its discussion of how computer algorithms discr...
Saturday, May 25, 2019

Editorial: Pro-Birth is Not Pro-Life

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Say what you will about a woman’s right to choose, but many on the left — nominal supporters of abortion rights — overlooked the vacancy on ...

Selections from the June 15, 2019 issue

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COVER/Marshall Auerback US-China talks are about much more than trade EDITORIAL Pro-birth is not pro-life LETTERS TO THE EDITOR  DON ROL...
Wednesday, May 22, 2019

Lowering voting age to 16 is a bad idea. Better to raise it—and age at which one can join the military—to 21

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By Marc Jampole Many major media outlets, including   USA Today  and  New York Times   have been floating the idea of lowering the voting ...
Sunday, May 19, 2019

World’s largest Electoral Exercise In India

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By N. GUNASEKARAN  In one of the most important elections in the history of India, voters have elected members of India’s Lok Sabha, th...
Friday, May 17, 2019

No one can prove when life begins, which makes it a matter of faith, which means government can’t interfere with a woman’s right to an abortion

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By Marc Jampole The current wave of anti-choice legislation passed in Alabama, Georgia, Ohio and elsewhere fills me with a deep sadness f...