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How the World Can Help After the Middle East Earthquake

For Syrians, the quake is the latest crisis after years of suffering. It’s time to end sanctions and send aid.

An unflattering comparison for America’s unchecked police departments.

Police killed more people last year than any other on record. Can reimagining city budgets make our communities safer?

Reducing a humanitarian crisis to an issue of “border security” puts real solutions out of reach.

But as usual, plenty for the Pentagon.

The relative diversity of the world’s fascists is an ironic credit to the pluralism they want to destroy.

Sorry, but we have too many other needs in this country to spend $858 billion on a department that can’t even pass an audit.

Because nobody’s perfect.

Elon Musk is opening the floodgates of hate speech even as the brutal consequences reveal themselves.

Trump-backed Republicans lost some big races this year, but the leopard won’t change its spots.