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Yuri Gripas / Reuters The Wall Street Journal's Editor: Beware Calling Donald Trump a Liar
Gerard Baker thinks the president lies all the time, but insists that applying that appellation puts too high a burden on news organizations.
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C2 Photography How Activism Can Advocate for Art
Lil Buck and Jon Boogz use their performances to get people to reconsider what movement can do.
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Brian Snyder / Reuters GE CEO Criticizes President Trump on China and the Paris Accords
The corporate leader argued that United States cedes national advantages and projects weakness when it disengages from the world.
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Stephanie Keith / Reuters Getting Along Despite the Threat of Deportation
Maria Hinojosa’s bittersweet celebration of immigrant perseverance in America
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Brian Snyder / Reuters Federalism Is Dead, Long Live Federalism
A Yale law professor argues that America has moved past the relationship among states that the Framers envisioned––but that a new federalism is serving the country well in its stead.
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Mike Blake / Reuters 'Audiences Cultivate the Power of Compassion'
A theater director believes her profession can contribute to the project of peaceful coexistence in America.
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Pawel Kopczynski / Reuters Privacy in the Information Age Is Not a Lost Cause
A champion of better protections for citizens and consumers argues that her fight is not a waste of time—and draws on history to justify her optimism.
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Joshua Roberts / Reuters Neal Katyal: Senate's Obstruction of Merrick Garland 'Was Unforgivable'
The former acting solicitor general said that the Republican blockade against the onetime Supreme Court nominee represented a breakdown of checks and balances.
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Vincent West / Reuters Making Babies, No Sex Necessary
One professor claims that future humans will be made from skin cells and prescreened for things like hair color and sex.
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Gary Cameron / Reuters Planned Parenthood Still Believes It Can Win the Culture Wars
Cecile Richards says the organization will not spin off its abortion services, even though Congress is threatening to cut off a portion of the group’s funding.
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Willy Sanjuan / Invision / AP ‘We Have to Have a Massive Revolution in Public Education in the United States’
The Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. says improving schools is the way to open the middle class up to more black and white Americans.
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Alfred Cheng Jin / Reuters The Highest Form of Disagreement
The best way to argue is to take on your opponents’ strongest arguments, not their weakest ones.
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Steve Dipaola / Reuters A Chancellor at Rutgers on Admissions and the Meritocracy
The growing diversity of today’s educational cohort prompts the question, “Whose talents do we as a nation need to cultivate?”
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Zoran Milich/Reuters Can Existing Institutions Produce the Leaders That the World Needs?
A inquiry into the skills required to address the coming century’s problems
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Jim Young / Reuters Should Journalism Be Subject to Anti-Trust Laws?
Nina Totenberg’s thought-experiment about the future of the press
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Paul Hackett / Reuters The Typical College Student Is Not Who You Think It Is
What percentage graduated from high school and enrolled within a year at a four year institution where they live on campus?
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Neil Hall / Reuters Challenging Culture's Whiteness by Default
As the art and entertainment industries begin to look increasingly unlike America, how can people in power better expand their pipeline for talent?
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Jim Young / Reuters What About Convicts of Violent Crimes?
An incarceration-reform advocate and former inmate makes the case for broader rehabilitation efforts.
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Noah Berger / Reuters Generational Differences in Black Activism
The contrasting approaches of DeRay McKesson, a prominent Black Lives Matter activist, and Marc Morial of the National Urban League.
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Jim Bourg / Reuters A Tragic Moment for the Supreme Court
Yale law professor Stephen L. Carter laments the recent string of divided decisions and urges a return to efforts to reach consensus, or near consensus, about the Constitution.
