Legislating is a very human experience in which trust and mutual respect play critical roles. But 1986 proved that when both are present, big things can get done.

loopholes proliferated, and the tax code grew more complex

They already police their networks for pornography, and quite well.

add mightily to a federal debt

after it.

These days, the whole idea of Western civ is assumed to be reactionary and oppressive

According to a study published in The Journal of Democracy, the share of young Americans who say it is absolutely important to live in a democratic country has dropped from 91 percent in the 1930s to 57 percent today.

chilling intolerance

ragile thugs who call themselves students shout down and abuse speakers on a weekly basis

Finally, there has been the collapse of liberal values at home. On American campuses,

centrist parties

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f they encounter it,

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about the importance of reasoned discourse, the importance of property rights, the need for a public square that was religiously informed but not theocratically dominated

That series encapsulated the Western civilization narrative that people, at least in Europe and North America, used for most of the past few centuries to explain their place in the world and in time

he series was phenomenally successful,

Overall, department stores employ a third fewer people now than they did in 2001. That’s half a million traditional jobs gone — about eighteen times as many jobs as were lost in coal mining over the same period.

That student was admitted by unanimous vote of the admissions committee.

children

had torn a gaping budget hole in Johnson’s Great Society domestic programs.

Beyond signaling his growing radicalism, the Riverside speech reflected Dr. King’s increasing political courage — and shows why, half a century later, he remains a pivotal figure in American history.

David J. Garrow

the stereotype that the people working to end abortion hate women.

This movement will thus be unable to unite American

while the Women’s March claimed to stand for love, nonviolence and inclusion, its organizers staunchly refused to extend that “inclusion” to pro-life women.

The men I work with are creating a culture in which their own wives, daughters and sisters are empowered and supported.

The men I work alongside want to end abortion not because they want to control women, but because they agree that requiring the sacrifice of a woman’s children in exchange for her success is unimaginable.

To us, “resistance” has to include opposition to the lie that freedom can be bought with the blood of our preborn children.

How the New Feminist Resistance Leaves Out American Wome

average grade of “D”

saying it was unnecessary, The San Jose Mercury News reported on Sunday.

ordered the evacuation of nearly 200,000 people

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What California’s Dam Crisis Says About the Changing Climate

mothers that didn’t imbibe the probiotics were less caring and tended to neglect their pups.

Further observation of males revealed thick skin bristling with active follicles, elevated testosterone levels and oversize testicles, which the animals liked showing off.

after feeding mice a probiotic microbe

Their proposal would tax carbon emissions at $40 a ton to start and would be paid by oil refineries and other fossil fuel companies that would pass costs on to consumers with higher gas and electricity prices. The money raised would be returned to Americans through dividend checks; a family of four would get about $2,000 a year to start. This would help people adjust to higher energy prices and give them an incentive to reduce consumption or switch to renewable sources of energy.

The idea that requests for White House tours and the planning of the Easter Egg Roll depend on the president’s spouse should be shocking to our 21st-century sensibilities.

The Russian dissident and chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov drew upon long familiarity with that process when he tweeted: “The point of modern propaganda isn’t only to misinform or push an agenda. It is to exhaust your critical thinking, to annihilate truth.”

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for their responses to the president’s decision

multiple centers of gravity

Our audience inhabits a complex, polluted information environment; our role is to help them navigate it — not to pretend it doesn’t exist. The need to show our work and earn trust has never been more important, since once reliable official sources are peddling “alternative facts” — as the White House press secretary did Saturday.

we trust you to reckon with a messy, sometimes uncertain reality.

The first wave of feminists fought for more than 70 years to win their biggest demand; S

They have forgotten — again — that this great nation will endure and will prosper only if we all prosper together.

Or — worse — Mr. Trump’s vow to end “political correctness” and make this, at least rhetorically, the same white man’s America it was in Jackson’s time?

I don’t buy it. Hillary Clinton’s campaign wasn’t that bad, and Mr. Trump was exposed enough for any thinking adult to see exactly what he is.

a man who says he has never asked God for forgiveness, who refers to the Eucharist with characteristic humility (“I drink my little wine, which is about the only wine I drink, and have my little cracker"), who mocks our military heroes, who lumbers about a stage proclaiming, “I alone can fix it!,” who dismissed a working man after the election with a tweet that read in part, “Spend more time working — less talking”

I mean a greater, almost spiritual faith that I had in my fellow citizens and their better instincts,

It’s inescapable, considering what we are: the first republic of the modern age, a nation of immigrants, haven to so many peoples from around the world. We have, like no other country, for better and for ill, dominated the modern world through both our hard power and our soft, our weapons but also our ideas.

“let America be America again/The land that never yet has been, and yet must be”

NO, I’m not over it.

“There is a real problem with the elite privates and flagship publics in not serving as many low-income students as they should,

On several dozen of campuses, remarkably, fewer students hail from the entire bottom half of the income distribution than from the top 1 percent.

Lower-income students who attend elite colleges fare even better on average than low-income students elsewhere

Pavia’s story is the classic story of the American dream.

But the success stories are real, too, and they’re fairly common.

Improving higher education should be a national priority.

Dropout rates are high, saddling students with debt but no degree.

These students entered college poor. They left on their way to the middle class and often the upper middle class.

encouraging

The most comprehensive study of college graduates yet conducted, based on millions of anonymous tax filings and financial-aid records.

This discourages

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But it will take more than that to fix a police culture where there is almost no accountability.

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the city fails to even investigate a majority of the misconduct cases that it is required by law to examine.

“It’s scary to say it, but maybe companies will have to be the standard-bearers for morals right now,”

Nicholas Reville, a board member of the Participatory Culture Foundation who has worked with the Sleeping Giants

it’s about using corporations as shields to protect vulnerable people from bullying and hate crimes.

I expected that other companies would want to trumpet their own Breitbart departures. It seemed an easy win for corporate P.R. to distance itself from Klan-rally-like riffs like this one — “every tree, every rooftop, every picket fence, every telegraph pole in the South should be festooned with the Confederate battle flag.” (Telegraph poles!?)

Programmatic ads can also follow individuals around the internet, based on their browsing history, as happened with Mr. Philips. A single targeted ad could cost just a fraction of a penny, but the pennies add up to a billion-dollar industry.

“We are trying to stop racist websites by stopping their ad dollars,”

Within hours, they received their first response, and they realized that they had stumbled across a potentially powerful tactic.

gobsmacked

“This has been the longest month of my life.”

ad dollars.

earth and environmental science professor

Mr. President-elect, are you listening?

In the short and medium term, we must step up assistance to climate refugees and sufferers, both to provide relief and to assist with new livelihoods that adjust to new climate realities

She broke off cactus pads, scraped off the thorns and boiled them briefly, and the boys ate them — even though they provide little nutrition. “My heart is breaking because I have nothing to give them,” Fideline said. “I have no choice.”

The World Food Program

Those of us in the rich world who have emitted most of the carbon bear a special responsibility to help people like these Madagascar villagers who are simultaneously least responsible for climate change and most vulnerable to it.

certainly not fretting about American politics — for she has never heard of either President Obama or Donald Trump.

the United Nations says.

Trump has repeatedly mocked climate change, once even calling it a hoax fabricated by China.

overseas governments that don’t want to curb carbon emissions.

For the next half century or so, we will see students learning less in school and economies held back, because in 2017 we allowed more than a million kids to be malnourished just here in southern Africa, collateral damage from our carbon-intensive way of life.

Now they understand there is a far broader toll: When children in utero and in the first few years of life are malnourished, their brains don’t develop properly. As a result, they may suffer permanently impaired brain function

Sonjona realizes that it is wrong to marry off a 10-year-old, but he also knows it is wrong to see his daughter starve.

because no one can afford the bride price of about $32.

Not one of the children in the village has ever had a bath.

In America, climate change costs families beach homes; in poor countries, parents lose their children.

The immediate cause of the droughts

a related drought has devastated East Africa and the Horn of Africa and is expected to continue this year. The U.N. World Food Program has urgently appealed for assistance, but only half the money needed has been donated.

“I feel so powerless as a mother, because I know how much I love my child,” she said. “But whatever I do just doesn’t work.”

Trump should come and feel these children’s ribs and watch them struggle for life.

Students need two skills to succeed as lawyers and as professionals: listening and communicating. We must listen with care, which requires patience, focus, eye contact and managing moments of ennui productively — perhaps by double-checking one’s notes instead of a friend’s latest Instagram. Multitasking and the mediation of screens kill empathy.