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Uvalde Police Didn’t Move to Save Lives Because That’s Not What Police Do

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After Uvalde, there’s still no gun control on the horizon. We can start by regulating hyper-destructive expanding ammunition then.

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The Biden Administration Is Pursuing a Retread of Trump’s False Peace Plan

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On the campaign trail in 2020, Joe Biden promised that he would condition aid to Egypt on respect for human rights. So why is one of Egypt’s leading dissidents close to dying in jail?

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