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There has been an outpouring of online sympathy for the parents of the boy who was killed by an alligator at a Disney resort in Orlando, Florida, which just goes to show that sometimes the internet has a heart, and sometimes it calls for blood. The question is why.
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May's announcement that a strain of bacteria with genes conferring resistance to colistin, our antibiotic of last resort, was identified in the United States, is just the latest report highlighting the growing threat of antibiotic resistance.
Donald Trump
The hottest political fight in America right now may not be between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, but between Trump and Jeffrey Bezos, who is the founder and CEO of Amazon.com and the owner of the Washington Post. Look for it to end up like Trump's last
Donald Trump
With Donald Trump's rise to the top of the Republican presidential ticket, conservatives find themselves in an awkward position. For months, most of us could not conceive of a Trump candidacy as anything more than a flash-in-the-pan publicity stunt designed to produce ratings. Others believed the GOP'
gun control
The FBI had the Orlando gunman under watch — twice — and, after much consideration, decided to stop following him. Was this a mistake? Obviously, tragically so. But in this massive lost opportunity to prevent a slaughter dwells a positive sign for our ability to stop future attacks. Law enforcement at least
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Massachusetts Democrats are at the forefront of the demand to deny Second Amendment rights to anyone placed (erroneously or not) on a terror watch list, including the No Fly List. U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren, U.S. Reps. Seth Moulton and Katherine Clark, and State Representative Lori Ehrlich are among
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To bypass statutes forbidding the federal government to develop national standards, two private organizations—the National Governors Association (NGA) and the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO)—in coordination with Achieve, Inc., a private organization established by the NGA and business officials in 1996, agreed to develop Common Core&
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Whole doctoral dissertations could be devoted to the question of what makes President Obama angry and what does not. His Tuesday broadside against Donald Trump stood in marked contrast to Sunday's somewhat-cold response to the Orlando massacre. This is a pattern. Mr. Obama did not name Trump, referring
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