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The arrest and recent imprisonment of Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu sent shock waves through Turkey, marking a decisive shift toward full autocracy. On March 19, police o...
April 01, 2025 Other Voices
It was the “belly tap heard around the world.” When former President George W. Bush gave his successor Barack Obama the playful tap at Jimmy Carter’s state funeral in Jan...
March 31, 2025 Other Voices
Europe finally appears serious about rearming. German legislators have agreed to exempt defense from constitutional limits on debt spending. The European Commission is ur...
March 31, 2025 Other Voices
Last fall, when initial data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention showed a surprising drop in drug overdose deaths, the universal response was relief. We w...
March 29, 2025 Other Voices
Over the past two decades, school districts have spent billions of taxpayer dollars equipping classrooms with laptops and other devices in hopes of preparing kids for a d...
March 28, 2025 Other Voices
A federal judge has held that Elon Musk and DOGE’s actions to shut down the U.S. Agency for International Development likely violated the Constitution in “multiple ways.”...
March 27, 2025 Other Voices
As a former Cook County, Ill., state’s attorney and a former chief of staff in a district attorney’s office, we were alarmed to learn that President Donald Trump’s admini...
March 27, 2025 Other Voices
U.S. health agency leadership and policymakers seem intent on undermining trust in mRNA, the technology that saved millions of lives during the COVID pandemic and has sho...
March 26, 2025 Other Voices
I thought they might be angry. Over the past quarter century, I’ve spent big chunks of time in Canada — Montreal and Toronto on occasion, but mostly Vancouver and the Sou...
March 26, 2025 Other Voices
Say this about President Donald Trump: Even when he has crazy ideas — and his tariff policy certainly seems crazy — he is often trying to address a legitimate concern. In...
March 25, 2025 Other Voices
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