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The Trump Administration's acknowledgement that it is in direct contact with the North Korean government over its missile and nuclear testing programs is an important step toward the peaceful resolution of a crisis that, until now, appeared headed for a full-scale military confrontation. And while war with North
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The British government's rejection of an offer by Vatican-run Bambino Gesu Children's Hospital to treat 1-year-old Charlie Gard's rare genetic condition is a heart-breaking example of why the bureaucratic nanny-state is a danger to human rights and the dignity of the elderly, infirm, and
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The Trump Administration's decision to withdraw from the Paris climate accord, which drew immediate condemnation from both the business community and world leaders, underscores the notion that the tectonics of both culture and politics are shifting in unprecedented ways. As the West moves toward an ever-increasing global outlook,
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"In the long run democracy will be judged, no less than other forms of government, by the quality of its leaders, a quality that will depend in turn on the quality of their vision." So wrote Irving Babbitt, the famed Harvard professor who left few acknowledged disciples, yet
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To say that Americans are divided over politics is to give too much credit to the substantive merits of the role of ideas in the formation of public opinion and not enough to the erosion of the language through which such ideas are discussed. We have learned from a generation
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Shortly after his inauguration, President Donald Trump hastily arranged a press conference to take place in the Oval Office. In front of the entire world, the new president signed the first in a series of executive orders reversing or curtailing executive orders issued by President Barack Obama on a variety
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Republicans are on notice: Democratic Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer has threatened to stonewall any Supreme Court nominee Democrats consider "out of the mainstream." Mr. Schumer says Democrats will fight "tooth and nail" against any conservative nominee and will consider keeping the late Antonin Scalia'
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"But when the fullness of time had come, God sent forth his Son, born of woman, born under the law, to redeem those who were under the law, so that we might receive adoption as sons." And so wrote St Paul to the Galatians, setting forth his argument