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The colonial legacy of LGBTQ+ phobias


Policies that impose homophobic or transphobic laws sometimes do so in the name of anti-colonialism, presenting gender and sexual minorities as an (…)

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Trump is 100% transparent: Releasing the Epstein files has a new champion


It’s a lot easier to flip and flop or turn on a dime or any other 180-degree metaphor when you have no principles or beliefs. And that is the wonder of Donald Trump.

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Today in History: November 18, Robert Blake ordered to pay $30 million in wife’s slaying


Eight months after Robert Blake was acquitted of murdering his wife at a criminal trial, a civil jury decided the actor was behind the killing and ordered him to pay $30 million to Bonny Lee Bakley…

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Lawyers for Lisa Cook Call Mortgage Fraud Allegations ‘Baseless’ and a Trump Effort To Undermine the ‘Independence of the Federal Reserve’


Prosecutors have ‘ignored’ similar mortgage fraud accusations raised against Trump-aligned Republicans, Cook’s lawyers argue.

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House Poised To Pass Formal Condemnation of Democratic Congressman Who Timed Retirement To Insure Aide Would Inherit His Seat


A moderate Democrat authored a resolution condemning her colleague for taking actions ‘incompatible with the spirit of the United States Constitution.’

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Nike, Asking ‘Why Do It?’, Strikes a Chord With Today’s Anxious Children


It could be because so many children are ‘just doing’ so very little today.

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“They Played Soccer with Human Heads”: Harrowing Testimonies of Aviva & Keith Siegel Before the UN Lay Bare the Depth of Hamas’ Atrocities


By: Fern Sidman In Geneva last week, before the United Nations Committee Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (UNCAT), the veil of denial surrounding Hamas’ atrocities on October 7 was torn apart once again — this time by two of the survivors themselves. Aviva and Keith Siegel, a married couple […]

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Netanyahu Must Be Pardoned: A Reckoning with Israel’s Deep State Witch Hunt


The time has come for President Isaac Herzog to exercise the full moral and constitutional authority of his office and pardon Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The years-long legal campaign against Israel’s longest-serving and most consequential leader has descended into a grotesque political spectacle—a weaponization of the judiciary by the “Deep State” that has sought, through […]

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Letters to the Editor


How NYS Conservative Chairman Kassar Helped Elect Mamdani Dear Editor: I am shocked and deeply concerned to see NYS Conservative Chairman Jerry Kassar give the 3rd slot on the ballot to unknown Democrat Irene Estrada in the NYC Mayoral Race, helping elect Zohran Mamdani, whose father glorified suicide bombings. I felt Chairman Kassar was self-serving […]

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The Mainstreaming of Jew-Hatred


Fragmentation threatens to empower extremes on both the left and right of the political spectrum. By: Melanie Phillips In both America and Britain, a disturbing restructuring of politics is underway that appallingly hinges on the demonization of Israel and the loathing of the Jews. The way this animus has been deforming liberal and left-wing politics […]