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U.S. President Joe Biden answers questions during a news conference in the East Room of the White House on January 19, 2022 in Washington, DC.
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The elephant in the room Biden can't ignore
Biden promised transparency. Has he delivered?
Let men who have sex with men donate blood. It's that simple
Trump documents allegedly claimed his apartment was nearly three times larger than it is
Joe Biden is not failing or flailing
The future of the GOP isn't about Ron DeSantis or Glenn Youngkin
Trump's loss in the Supreme Court is a win for the rest of us
After months of doom, I'm finally feeling hopeful

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Afghan teachers line up to receive humanitarian assistance in Mazar-i-Sharif, capital of Balkh province, Afghanistan, December 15, 2021. A local trading company has provided humanitarian assistance to teachers in the northern Balkh province.
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The Afghan economy is a falling house of cards. Here are 5 steps to rebuild it
A Taliban fighter walks past a beauty salon with images of women defaced using spray paint in Shar-e-Naw in Kabul on August 18, 2021. (Photo by Wakil KOHSAR / AFP) (Photo by WAKIL KOHSAR/AFP via Getty Images)
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In a hotel room in Albania, Afghan women await new lives -- and watch their homeland collapse
MOSCOW, RUSSIA - JANUARY 06: (---EDITORIAL USE ONLY â MANDATORY CREDIT - "RUSSIAN DEFENCE MINISTRY PRESS SERVICE / HANDOUT" - NO MARKETING NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS - DISTRIBUTED AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS----) A screen grab image taken from a handout video made available by the Russian Defence Ministry's press service shows Russian servicemen boarding a military aircraft on their way to Kazakhstan, at an airfield outside Moscow, Russia,, on January 06, 2022. A Russia-led military alliance on Thursday sent its peacekeeping troops to Kazakhstan, where massive riots stemming from nationwide protests over high fuel prices have led to a state of emergency and the resignation of the government. The Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) said in a statement that the organization decided to send the peacekeeping forces to Kazakhstan to stabilize and normalize the situation in the country. (Photo by Russian Defense Ministry Press Office / Handout/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
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For Putin, Kazakhstan is a domino too big to fall
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On the day Boris Johnson partied, a doctor signed my father's death certificate
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Djokovic saga shows the absurd confusion of Australia's Covid-19 fortress
Russian President Vladimir Putin participates in a convention of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs (RSPP) in Moscow on December 17, 2021.
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Putin's big miscalculation
WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 08: A protester walks by as the American flag flies at half-staff at the U.S. Capitol on January 08, 2021 in Washington, DC. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi ordered the building's flags be flown at half-staff in honor of Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick, 42, who died after being injured during clashes with a pro-Trump mob at the Capitol on Jan. 6. Sicknick, a military veteran, was a 12-year member of the force. (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images)
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Even Canadians fear US democracy could end soon
Pope Francis leaves at the end of the New Year's day mass in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican on January 1, 2022. (Photo by Tiziana FABI / AFP) (Photo by TIZIANA FABI/AFP via Getty Images)
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The Pope is wrong. Choosing to have few or no children is the opposite of selfish
MADRID, SPAIN - DECEMBER 03: Novak Djokovic of Serbia plays a backhand to Marin Cilic of Croatia during the Davis Cup semi final between Serbia and Croatia at Madrid Arena on December 03, 2021 in Madrid, Spain. (Photo by Clive Brunskill/Getty Images)
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Political Op-eds

US President Joe Biden answers questions during a news conference in the East Room of the White House, on January 19, 2022, in Washington, DC.
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Biden doesn't see his presidency as a failing enterprise
Bernie Sanders: The time for Senate talk is over. We need to vote.
The question we should be asking about violent crime in American cities
Why Joe Biden looked to segregationist history to pull the GOP back from the brink on voting rights
How the Biden administration can ensure mask access to all Americans
What 2020's pro-Trump phony electors means for 2024
This is an unmistakable win for incarcerated people
How Aafia Siddiqui became an icon for terrorists
America has taken its eyes off the ball on Iran
What Justice Gorsuch's masklessness says about society
What's behind the Hillary Clinton '24 talk

Top issues

WASHINGTON, DC - SEPTEMBER 29: An American flag waves outside the United States Capitol building as Congress remains gridlocked over legislation to continue funding the federal government September 29, 2013 in Washington, DC. The House of Representatives passed a continuing resolution with language to defund U.S. President Barack Obama's national health care plan yesterday, but Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has indicated the U.S. Senate will not consider the legislation as passed by the House. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)
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This is the revelation America is still waiting for
Police clash with supporters of US President Donald Trump who breached security and entered the Capitol building in Washington D.C., on January 6, 202
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What it will take to save American democracy
U.S. House Minority Leader Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) speaks during a weekly news conference at the U.S. Capitol July 01, 2021 in Washington, DC. McCarthy held a weekly news conference to answer questions from members of the press.
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Why Kevin McCarthy's comments cannot be ignored
The U.S. Supreme Court is shown on June 22, 2021 in Washington, DC.
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These Supreme Court arguments are about far more than vaccine mandates
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Social commentary

UNITED STATES - SEPTEMBER 30: Dr. Martin Luther King with his mother and his wife, Coretta, are smiling and cheerful druing their interview yesterday in Harlem Hospital after being stabbed by Mrs. Isola Ware Curry.. (Photo by Al Pucci/NY Daily News Archive via Getty Images)
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Teresa Hui poses for a selfie in front of a 2022 sign displayed in Times Square, New York, on Dec. 20, 2021.
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MEET THE MADRIGALS -- Walt Disney Animation Studios' "Encanto" introduces the Madrigals, a compelling and complicated extended family who live in a wondrous and charmed place in the mountains of Colombia. Opening in the U.S. on Nov. 24, 2021, "Encanto" features the voices of Stephanie Beatriz as the only ordinary child in the Madrigal family; María Cecilia Botero as Mirabel's grandmother, Abuela Alma; Angie Cepeda and Wilmer Valderrama as Mirabel's parents, Julieta and Agustín; Jessica Darrow and Diane Guererro as Mirabel's sisters Luisa and Isabela; Carolina Gaitan and Mauro Castillo as Mirabel's aunt and uncle, Pepa and Félix; and Adassa Candiani, Rhenzy Feliz and Ravi Cabot-Conyers as Mirabel's cousins Dolores, Camilo and Antonio, respectively. © 2021 Disney. All Rights Reserved.
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'Encanto' shifts the female paradigm

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Free Press: What's at stake?

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JERUSALEM, ISRAEL: (FILE PHOTO) Nazi war criminal Adolph Eichmann stands in a protective glass booth flanked by Israeli police during his trial April 5, 1961 in Jerusalem. The Israeli police donated Eichmann's original handprints, fingerprints and mugshot to Jerusalem's Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial ahead of Israel's annual Holocaust remembrance day May 4, 2005 which this year also marks the 60th anniversary of the Nazi's World War II defeat in 1945. (Photo by GPO via Getty Images)
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60 years ago, we saw the face of evil
CHARLOTTE, NORTH CAROLINA - AUGUST 24: President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence give a thumbs up after speaking on the first day of the Republican National Convention at the Charlotte Convention Center on August 24, 2020 in Charlotte, North Carolina. The four-day event is themed "Honoring the Great American Story." (Photo by Chris Carlson-Pool/Getty Images)
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Pro-Trump lawyer's memo begins with a lie, then descends into madness
WASHINGTON, DC - MARCH 18: U.S. President Donald Trump pauses during a news briefing on the latest development of the coronavirus outbreak in the U.S. at the James Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House March 18, 2020 in Washington, DC. President Trump announced on Twitter that the U.S. and Canada will close their border to non-essential traffic to try and stop the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)
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CLYDE, OHIO - AUGUST 06: U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to workers at a Whirlpool manufacturing facility on August 06, 2020 in Clyde, Ohio. Whirlpool is the last remaining major appliance company headquartered in the United States. With more than 3,000 employees, the Clyde facility is one of the world's largest home washing machine plants, producing more than 20,000 machines a day. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)
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Justice for George Floyd gets a step closer
WASHINGTON, DC - JULY 31: U.S. President Donald Trump listens during a meeting with members of the National Association of Police Organizations Leadership in the Cabinet Room of the White House July 31, 2020 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker-Pool/Getty Images)
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Please contact your Account Representative for licensing use on merchandise and/or resale products; fine art prints, wall décor, gallery, nonprofit or museum displays. Mandatory Credit: Photo by Francis Miller/The LIFE Picture Collection/Shutterstock (12094600a) American Civil Rights activists actor Sidney Poitier (left) and singer Harry Belafonte talk together during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, Washington DC, August 28, 1963. At The March On Washington For Jobs & Freedom, District of Columbia, USA - 28 Aug 1963
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PERRY, GA - SEPTEMBER 25: Former President Donald Trump speaks at a rally on September 25, 2021 in Perry, Georgia. Republican Senate candidate Herschel Walker, Georgia Secretary of State candidate Rep. Jody Hice (R-GA), and Georgia Lieutenant Gubernatorial candidate State Sen. Burt Jones (R-GA) also appeared as guests at the rally. (Photo by Sean Rayford/Getty Images)
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BRUNSWICK, GA - OCTOBER 18: A demonstrator holds a sign at the Glynn County Courthouse as jury selection begins in the trial of the shooting death of Ahmaud Arbery on October 18, 2021 in Brunswick, Georgia. Three white men are accused of chasing down and murdering Arbery in southeastern Georgia last year. (Photo by Sean Rayford/Getty Images)
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(L-R): Sophie Thatcher as Teen Natalie, Steven Krueger as Ben Scott and Samantha Hanratty as Teen Misty in YELLOWJACKETS, "Bear "Down. Photo credit: Colin Bentley/SHOWTIME.
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Breaking into a frug, actor Sidney Poitier releases tension during a break in filming of "In the Heat of the Night" on location in Tennessee, April 11, 1967. He says the role is one of the most intense he has ever played, and this is his way of keeping up. He plays a black detective from the north sent to investigate a murder committed in the south. (AP Photo)
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STAFFORD COUNTY, VIRGINIA - JANUARY 04: The entrance ramp to I-95 is closed after a winter storm dumped a foot of snow on the area overnight on January 04, 2022 near Fredericksburg in Stafford County, Virginia. A winter storm with record snowfall slammed into the Mid-Atlantic states, stranding thousands of motorists overnight on 50 miles of I-95 in Virginia. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
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BURBANK, CA - APRIL 26: Actress Betty White accepts Daytime Emmy Lifetime Achievement Award onstage during The 42nd Annual Daytime Emmy Awards at Warner Bros. Studios on April 26, 2015 in Burbank, California. (Photo by Jesse Grant/Getty Images for NATAS)
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RICHMOND, VIRGINIA - SEPTEMBER 08: Crews remove a statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee on Monument Avenue, September 8, 2021 in Richmond, Virginia. The Commonwealth of Virginia is removing the largest Confederate statue remaining in the U.S. following authorization by all three branches of state government, including a unanimous decision by the Supreme Court of Virginia. (Photo by Steve Helber - Pool/Getty Images)
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French President Emmanuel Macron (L) is greeted by Abu Dhabi's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed al-Nahyan during his tour of the Emirates pavillion at the Dubai Expo on the first day of his Gulf tour on December 3, 2021. - The UAE signed among other deals today a record, 14-billion-euro contract for 80 French-made Rafale warplanes and committed billions of euros in other agremments as Macron kicked off a Gulf tour that will also take him to Qatar and Saudi Arabia. (Photo by Thomas SAMSON / AFP) (Photo by THOMAS SAMSON/AFP via Getty Images)
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WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 12: U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to reporters on the South Lawn of the White House before boarding Marine One on January 12, 2021 in Washington, DC. Following last week's deadly pro-Trump riot at the U.S. Capitol, President Trump is making his first public appearance with a trip to the town of Alamo, Texas to view the construction of the wall along the U.S.-Mexico border. (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images)
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A paramedic prepares to administer the third shot of a Covid-19 vaccine on August 24, in Holon, Israel.
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WASHINGTON, DC - NOVEMBER 17: Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) answers questions in front of the House steps while House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy holds a press conference November 17, 2021 in Washington, DC. McCarthy and other members of the Republican caucus spoke on U.S. President Joe Biden's domestic agenda as his Build Back Better initiative nears a vote in the House. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)
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LAS VEGAS, NEVADA - FEBRUARY 15: Former U.S. Sen. Harry Reid talks to members of the media outside the East Las Vegas Library after voting on the first day of early voting for the upcoming Nevada Democratic presidential caucus at the Culinary Workers Union Hall Local 226 on February 15, 2020 in Las Vegas, Nevada. Nevada is the first caucus state to offer early voting. (Photo by Ethan Miller/Getty Images)
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US President Joe Biden speaks during a signing ceremony for the Accelerating Access to Critical Therapies for ALS Act" in the South Court Auditorium of the White House in Washington, DC on December 23, 2021. (Photo by Nicholas Kamm / AFP) (Photo by NICHOLAS KAMM/AFP via Getty Images)
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ROYAL PALM BEACH, FLORIDA - JUNE 10: Palm Beach County Sheriff's crime scene tape is seen outside of a Publix supermarket where a woman, child and a man were found shot to death on June 10, 2021 in Royal Palm Beach, Florida. Law enforcement officials continue to investigate the crime scene for clues as to why the shooting occurred. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)
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FILE - Author Joan Didion sits in front of a photo of herself holding her daughter, Quintana Roo, and another picture of her daughter's wedding, in her New York apartment Sept. 26, 2005. Didion, the revered author and essayist whose provocative social commentary and detached, methodical literary voice made her a uniquely clear-eyed critic of a uniquely turbulent time, has died. She was 87. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens, File)
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DALLAS, TEXAS - JULY 11: Former U.S. President Donald Trump prepares to speak during the Conservative Political Action Conference CPAC held at the Hilton Anatole on July 11, 2021 in Dallas, Texas. CPAC began in 1974, and is a conference that brings together and hosts conservative organizations, activists, and world leaders in discussing current events and future political agendas. (Photo by Brandon Bell/Getty Images)
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President Joe Biden after speaking at the White House in Washington, Dec. 3, 2021.
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