Bob CollinsJeremy Corbyn, the leader of Britain’s Labour Party, said on Friday his party will press ahead for Brexit, Britain’s go-it-alone separation from the European Union, if there’s another referendum on exiting the Union. Read more →
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Barack Obama, 57, has got a lot of time left in the role of former president so he decided to adopt a new role yesterday at a children’s hospital in Washington. Because what else is a former president going to do on a Wednesday? Read more →
Looking back now, it should have been obvious that Claas Relotius was ginning up his stories for the German magazine Der Spiegel, stories for which he won award after award until he was fired on Wednesday.
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There’s an emerging theme from old-guard — mostly white — candidates who’ve lost their hold on power and it’s not pretty.
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The freedom to peacefully assemble and speak your mind is a beautiful thing.
At the same time, we often wonder, who are these people who have time on a workday to do so?
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Thanks to President Trump’s travel ban, people from Yemen are not allowed into the United States even if their kid is here dying and a mother wants to hold his hand one last time. Read more →
Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin has taken the undermining of the free press to a new extreme, posting a Facebook video railing against an investigative journalism organization that has partnered with his state’s biggest newspaper. Read more →
We know a little more today about what’s going to happen to Victorina Morales, the undocumented worker in one of President Trump’s resorts, who came forward in yesterday’s New York Times to suggest the resort knows she’s undocumented while the president speaks ill of such people. Read more →
Having patted himself on the back (according to White House sources) for keeping a civil tongue during the days of services for former President George H. W. Bush this week, President Trump returned to the security blanket of Twitter late Thursday.
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Victorina Morales isn’t just any member of a housekeeping staff at a hotel. Victoria Morales is a member of a housekeeping at a Donald Trump hotel. Read more →
Deval Patrick, the former Massachusetts governor who announced yesterday he won’t run for president, has already distinguished himself as a different kind of potential presidential candidate. Unlike most politicians who are being coy with the media while claiming they haven’t made up their minds about running for office, Patrick really was weighing both sides of running and really was undecided. Read more →
The sooner Dane Best, 9, of Severance, Colorado, grows up, the sooner we can get some of the country’s nagging problems solved.
Dane Best solves problems. Take that ban on snowball fights in his community. Read more →
First of all, the whole call-the-cops-on-your-neighbor-rather-than-talking-to-them thing is creepy. And oh so Minnesotan. Read more →
A moment at the Capitol Tuesday reminded us that no matter how powerful we become, time still calls the shots. Read more →
Ruth Graham, who writes for Slate, probably is a cat lover. Read more →