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Republicans' stance on Supreme Court nominees and their response to the extremists at the top of their party's ticket are the same issue. And the solution is simple. If Republican Senators want to stand up to extremists running for president, they can start by standing up to extremists in the Senate. They can start by doing their jobs.

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We write to you as scholars of American history, politics, and the law. We express our dismay at the unprecedented breach of norms by the Senate majority in refusing to consider a nomination for the Supreme Court made by a president with 11 months to serve in the position.

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Simply by using the Internet, you have no choice but to share large amounts of personal information with your broadband provider. You have a right to know what information is being collected. It's your data. How it's used and shared should be your choice.

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What makes 2017's Congressional Progressive Caucus People's Budget so strong is what it doesn't do: It does not include Social Security. Finally, a budget that follows the law!

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In their own way, Catholics for Trump are presenting the country and the American Catholic church with the bill for a moral and intellectual bankruptcy that it will not be easy to recover from, even for one of the most important churches in modern global Catholicism.

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Although his opponents seek to paint him as too far left, Bernie Sanders' views are mainstream. Hillary Clinton argued that Sanders' ideas are not realistic and too expensive. "If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is," Clinton said. In fact, the ideas that Sanders has injected into the campaign are hardly radical. Sanders is in sync with the majority of Americans on most key issues.

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As a Black American Muslim, I am not challenged with the belief that America is not my country and I don't belong. However, being Black in America has taught me something unique about being unapologetically Muslim.

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I'm quite sure that it is a scientific fact that parents never feel like fully functional human beings again.

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This week is the 5th anniversary of one of the worst disasters in the history of nuclear power. Unfortunately the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission has not done enough to ensure that kind of an accident can't happen here.

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For some people, it's unimaginable that a 10-year-old girl could be so sad that she can't imagine a future. That she sees the world as a better place without herself in it. For so many Aboriginal people it's hard to imagine a harmonious world full of joy with you in it.

Sunday night, in Germany and by extension in the rest of Europe, we will face a new political scenario. Will Merkel manage to face it like a strong leader, just as she has done so far, instead of being slowly but surely destroyed by it?

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No matter what Erdogan's real motivation is for the unlawful order to takeover Zaman media, it is obvious that Erdogan wants to silence all critical voices. For many, it was one of the darkest days of Turkish history -- and it seems that it will not be the last one.

I love Louis Farrakhan, namely because of the hundreds of thousands of black lives -- including mine -- that he has saved. Now that the ADL has new leadership and the old style of management is gone, I wonder if we can begin a new chapter.

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While Mother Nature is stealing some of the headlines from Donald Trump, the major networks are missing the real story. They blame this year's extreme weather on the "Godzilla" El Niño. But where is Godzilla getting its strength?

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I vowed to use this experience to educate others about this rare, but dangerous condition. There is no predicting who will get ocular melanoma. And the symptoms are often so subtle, that patients aren't diagnosed until later stages, when their vision and their lives are threatened.

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The wall America needs should not be effective at keeping immigrants from entering our great nation. It needs to protect us from the vast array of hostile hackers who wish to do us harm from both within and beyond our sovereign borders.

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Behind the scenes, "top U.S. military commanders" have reportedly been talking up a renewed, decades-long commitment to Afghanistan and its security forces, what one general has termed a "generational approach" to the war there.

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I want to travel because I want to learn. Because I want to have fun. Because I want to make memories I'll cherish my whole lifetime. I don't want my passion for adventure to turn into another to-do requirement in which I travel because it's another thing on my list.

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It is a very hard thing to do, to listen to Trump and try to parse the sense from the nonsense. But it has got to be done. If not, the only explanation for his astounding electoral success is that we are a nation of racists and morons. That's not the case.

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Putting an end to rehashing, second-guessing, and catastrophic predictions is easier said than done. But with consistent practice, you can limit your negative thinking patterns:

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Based on recent events, it is clear that anti-environmentalists, companies that pollute the environment, and even anti-environment members of the Court, recognize that they have lost their strongest ally.

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Donald Trump brags that he used a $1 million inheritance to create $10 billion net worth. CEOs like Valeant's Mike Pearson hype their quarterly results. Whatever happened to humility as a virtue for leaders?

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Last weekend hundreds of us lined up to enter the gym in central Topeka, Kansas, where my now 33-year-old daughter attended middle school. My long line of already registered voters was not nearly as long as the parallel line of young people registering to vote, and erstwhile Republicans switching to the Democratic Party to caucus for Bernie Sanders.

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It is difficult to watch Donald Trump's ascent in the Republican Party this election season, without drawing parallels to another uniquely American demagogue: Wisconsin senator Joseph McCarthy.

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I feel that her example as, most importantly, a loving, strong, devoted wife and then as our country's First Lady, was and should be an inspiration to all. My husband and I will miss her, but we feel happy that she is now joined again with her soulmate and partner in life and in love.

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Obama's job approval polling average is now once again "above water" -- defined as more people who approve of the job he's doing than disapprove. This might not sound all that momentous, but it is actually the first time in almost three years that it has happened.

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Generally, when you're debating a person who might get indicted because of an ongoing FBI investigation, you've won the contest in terms of trustworthiness.

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Trump is not some phenomenon, he is a direct reflection of America as it is right now. He is a result of the dying white America that white people have been promised their entire lives.

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I first met Berta Cáceres in 2009. I was in Honduras with a group of scholars and activists, who were eager to know about Indigenous struggles. Berta was an inspiration. She was first and foremost an unapologetic Indigenous feminist.