Daily Cartoon: Wednesday, June 26th
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The Espionage Act and a Growing Threat to Press Freedom
The Justice Department’s recent indictment of Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, has alarmed press-freedom advocates, with even some of Assange’s fiercest critics warning that the government has crossed a perilous new frontier by using the Espionage Act to target a publisher. Another recent Espionage Act indictment has generated less controversy, presumably because its target…
What Should Democrats Do to Help Children at the Border?
On Tuesday, as the Trump Administration returned a hundred children to dangerously neglectful conditions at a Border Patrol facility in Clint, Texas, and announced the resignation of the acting head of Customs and Border Protection, House Democrats prepared to vote for a four-and-a-half-billion-dollar humanitarian-aid package to help immigrants at the border. But supporting the aid…
Daily Cartoon: Tuesday, June 25th
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The Theory That Justified Anti-Gay Crime
In the bad old days, newspapers rarely mentioned gay men except in a certain kind of true-crime story. The first clue in the cases was often a body discovered in a hotel room. In 1920, the forty-seven-year-old scion of a New England piano-making family was found in New York’s Plymouth Hotel with “a fractured jaw…
Trump Sanctions Iran’s Supreme Leader, but to What End?
With the flourish of his pen on Monday, President Trump imposed sweeping sanctions on Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, as well as everyone in Khameini’s office or appointed by him. It was a point of high drama in the escalating brinksmanship between the United States and the Islamic Republic. It was the closest that…
Belligerence
In “Belligerence,” Robin Wright delves into Donald Trump’s four options to rectify a crisis of his own making in Iran. Click Here: bape jacket cheap
Will Boris Johnson’s “Late-Night Altercation” Sink His Bid to Become Prime Minister?
What is the British equivalent of being able to shoot someone on Fifth Avenue and get away with it? The question of what Boris Johnson might need to do in order to derail his seemingly ineluctable ascent to become the next leader of the Conservative Party, and therefore become the next Prime Minister of the…
Why the Polar Bear Is an Indisputable Image of Climate Change
Last Sunday, a polar bear turned up in Norilsk, an industrial city in Siberia known for the production of nickel, for the first time since 1977. Visibly sick—thin and weak, with diarrhea and watering eyes—she roamed the city, feeding from a garbage dump and resting in the lot of a sand and gravel factory. In…
The Devil Critiques Expressions That Mention Him
Idle hands are the devil’s workshop. I won’t go into detail, but my workshop is a lot more bitchin’ than just a bunch of idle hands, or whatever. And, although there are lots of hands, let’s just say they’re not idle. They’re . . . up to stuff. The devil is in the details. Well, yeah—and in the…