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World
Who’s a ‘Colonizer’? How an Old Word Became a New Weapon
The colonial era entered its death throes after World War II. From 1945 through the 1960s, a global order in…
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World
Israeli Strikes Pound Gaza a Day after U.S. Vetoes Cease-Fire Resolution.
Israel unleashed a barrage of airstrikes across Gaza on Saturday, killing dozens of people and sending hundreds of wounded to…
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World
Rare Giant Rat Is Photographed Alive for First Time
The people who live on the island of Vangunu were adamant that the critically endangered species still existed. They helped…
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World
The truce between Israel and Hamas held for another day.
Hours after Hamas and Israel completed the fifth exchange of hostages and prisoners, their fragile truce continued into Wednesday, allowing…
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Politics
Knowing When ‘They’ Means One
I have a proposal about our new usage of “they” to refer to individual people, as in, “Irene? Oh, they…
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World
Sierra Leone Announces Arrest of 13 Military Officials in ‘Attempted Coup’
The West African nation has not identified the military officials and one civilian it arrested after attacks in the capital…
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Politics
Helping Homeless People Who Are Mentally Ill
More from our inbox: An Immoral Oct. 7 ‘But’Biden and the Israel-Gaza WarFather and Son Trying to Mend a Divide…
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US
They Fled Climate Chaos. Asylum Law Made Decades Ago Might Not Help
First came the hurricanes — two storms, two weeks apart in 2020 — that devastated Honduras and left the country’s…
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Politics
Hepatitis C Kills 15,000 Americans a Year. That Number Should Be Zero.
A little over a decade ago, I watched my brother in-law Rick Boterf die of complications from infection with the…
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Politics
How Geert Wilders Won
A country where depopulating rural areas are losing physicians, bus stops and elementary schools while urban areas thrive is fertile…