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Iranian poster of the Great Satan and the Ayatollah

Jessica Mathews: why scuttling the Iran deal is MAD

Summary: Trump apparently intends to scuttle the nuclear arms control deal with Iran. Here an expert explains that the reasons he gives are wrong and that the consequences will be ugly for both us and for them. For more information see the previous posts in this series, listed at the end. Iranian students with pictures …

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Iraq war becomes the Iran war

We pay for Trump’s gift to the hard-liners of Iran & America

Summary: Trump’s efforts to scuttle our arms control agreement with Iran is a gift to the far-right of both American and Iran. It is a blow to the interests of both Iran and America. Here an expert gives us the bad news, a part of the story that the news media forgets to mention. This …

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ACLU

The Left attacks free speech. See the ACLU defend it.

Summary: With free speech under attack on many fronts by the Left, the ACLU stands almost alone on the Left defending one of the core precepts of a liberal social order. Here is a powerful essay by the ACLU’s National Legal Director.  Stand by for a special post later today about Hurricane Irma. “Why We Must …

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