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Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was a staunch defender of legal abortion, arguing that it's a woman's right. But did she also believe in eugenics? Ginsburg, 87, died from pancreatic cancer complications on Friday, causing many on the left to worry about the power balance
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I thought Ruth Bader Ginsburg would die of drowning. Those familiar with Robert K. Massie's description of the death of Rasputin in Nicholas and Alexandra or with the multi-step demises of certain tragic figures in Celtic mythology may get the idea. She seemed almost indestructible.
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Direct mail gets less attention than television commercials or campaign events. But it is a battleground in the presidential race worth keeping an eye on, as the campaigns and their proxies communicate privately with voters. Take, for example, a recent mailing from the American Civil Liberties Union. "I'
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The National Football League used to be about football. But this season, since the killing of George Floyd, it has become political football. Or, in other words, "systemic racism" in America. Four years ago, national weathervane Roger Goodell was horrified by a player taking a knee during the
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"Exit, Stage Left" was the memorably apt cover line on the January 2009 issue of Reason magazine, over a picture of George W. Bush, whose party had just been defeated by Barack Obama and the Democrats after Bush turned an economic downturn into a crisis by seizing Fannie
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If you think urban rioting, looting, or "peaceful protesting" is disruptive now, imagine how much worse it may get if President Donald Trump wins a narrow re-election victory. In 2016, Trump lost the popular vote by two or three million but won states and districts worth 306 electoral
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By Matt Murphy and Colin A. Young State House News Service
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When Boston Archdiocese priest Monsignor Paul Garrity endorsed Joe Biden for president on his Facebook page, he reopened the perennial question about religion and politics: Should churches or clerics endorse or otherwise support political candidates? First, to be clear, church institutions and their ministers have the same right to engage
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