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| "My family and friends in Donetsk are shocked and can't predict what will happen even in the next few hours. They are staying at their houses and not taking any extra risks. They know local media has celebrated the Russian support, and local authorities have made men join the military separatists, so it's extremely unsafe for men to walk outside. They are puzzled about why everything started changing so rapidly after eight years." |
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| By Melinda Haring |
| "There are easier ways for the Russian president to end Ukraine's Westernizing drive and rewrite the rules of the European security architecture. Putin's tanks only need to sit on the border and menace Ukraine for the next three to six months to destroy the economy and break Ukrainians' resolve. The issue will need to be a priority for the Biden administration and his successor's." |
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| By Louie Villalobos |
| "Allow me to make a case that this pandemic isn't over and won't be anytime soon. Medically speaking, the pandemic isn't over. That's just the facts of it. But I'm talking about so much more here, about why "normal" will never be what any of us remember. I'm talking about the cultural impact of COVID-19. The things we lost and what that will mean for generations of us." |
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| By Jonathan Turley |
| "Businesses are often warned of the perils of growing too fast. That may seem counterintuitive, but success can bring serious problems if growth outstrips capabilities or production. BLM is a case study of that danger. After the police murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis in May 2020, corporations frantically moved to establish their standing as anti-racist organizations. BLM became the vehicle for such corporate bona fides." |
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| By Connie Schultz |
| "Here I go: Real journalists never persuade criminal defendants to reject plea deals so we can use the unfolding tragedy of their lives to reboot our stalled careers. We don't hide our professional identities to circumvent a jail's visitation rules or help defense lawyers build their cases. And we don't give defendants clothes from our own closets to produce the right look for their courtroom appearances." |
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| By Jill Lawrence |
| "Actually, what happened in Canada was that national leaders gave police the resources and authority they needed to clear out scores of trucks and hundreds of protesters who blocked a major international crossing to Detroit, costing the auto industry $300 million. For three weeks, they jammed Ottawa's downtown Parliament Hill area with vehicles, a stage and structures to sleep in." |
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| By Connie Schultz |
| "My first impulse was to make light of this news. I imagined Jesus the grammarian spending his days editing the texts of religious leaders who dare speak for him. As a practicing Christian – emphasis on practicing – this is a gratifying image as I think of all those right-wing extremists wielding God as a weapon. Every time they use their words to corrupt my faith steeped in teachings of love and inclusion, there's Jesus at the keyboard: "Delete, delete, delete." |
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| By Miriam Aroni Krinsky |
| "Our nation's overdose numbers have reached record high crisis levels. And past approaches to treating addiction with prison and punishment have failed. In an effort to improve our nation's fight against addiction, the administration pledged to devote modest funding to services predicated on fundamentals of harm reduction. These programs allow treatment providers to work to mitigate the dangers of substance use, rather than demand abstinence. Since December, the program drew little notice – until this month." |
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| By Akira Olivia Kumamoto |
| "She hadn't remembered my name in years, but I took strange comfort in the fact that she thought I was her mother every time she came out of her trance long enough to notice me sitting next to her, scrolling through the newsfeed on my phone and coughing from the smog seeping through her curtains from the San Pedro port in Los Angeles. As a half-Japanese, half-Mexican American, it wasn't until my grandmother forgot me that she saw me as someone who was just as Japanese as her." |
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| By Suzette Hackney |
| "It's hard to talk about what vision I have for him, because I didn't anticipate him being killed," Fulton told me recently as we discussed the decade that has passed since her 17-year-old was killed. "I didn't get a chance to see him go to the prom. I didn't get a chance to see him graduate from high school and go to his senior events and all of that. I got robbed of those things. I got robbed of him getting married and having kids and getting his first job ... getting the first apartment or house, getting a car." |
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