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How to Resist Trumps Militarization of America
Andrew Lanham
Trump is thus not only turning to the military as his primary tool for carrying out government policies. He is simultaneously building a partisan-political military as his personal police force to im ...[Continue Reading]
The New Republic
1 day ago
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Debit Cards Are Taking Over
Michael Waters
Sometime around 2007, Marc Fusaro, then a professor at East Carolina University, sat in a friends kitchen and explained that he was researching the methods people use to rein in their credit-card sp ...[Continue Reading]
The Atlantic
1 day ago
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Jerusalem shooting escalates collective punishment acts
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Quotable Read moreMustafa Barghouti, secretary-general of the Palestinian National Initiative, says Israel is using a shooting in occupied East Jerusalem to justify greater collective punishment....[Continue Reading]
Al Jazeera English
1 day ago
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LeBron: Hoops can bridge U.S.-China tensions
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HONG KONG -- NBA great LeBron James wrote a rare op-ed in Chinese state media this week, pointing to basketball as an avenue for diplomacy amid tensions with the U.S. Writing in Monday's edition of ...[Continue Reading]
ESPN
1 day ago
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Israeli strike targets senior Hamas leadership in Qatar
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Israel has carried out a strike targeting the senior leadership of Hamas in Qatar's capital, Doha. A Hamas official told the BBC that members of the Palestinian armed group's negotiating team were t ...[Continue Reading]
BBC News
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A Psychopathic Partner Just Might Make You More Successful
Susan Krauss Whitbourne PhD, ABPP
In general, its not all that desirable to have a partner high in psychopathy. After all, these are individuals who will use you to their advantage, lie, cheat, andworst of allshow no remorse. Maybe e ...[Continue Reading]
Psychology Today
1 day ago