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Hur’s testimony was another blow to the Justice Department’s reputation

Former special counsel Robert Hur made it a lot harder for Americans to know who or what to trust.

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Dictators ignore borders in their pursuit of critics

A growing number of autocrats have targeted at least 850 people living outside of their repressive regimes since 2014.

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Justice Clarence Thomas was the deciding vote in a case he never should have heard

Thomas’s excuse to flout recusal guidelines was already written into the very toothless rules that govern him. As a result, our democracy has lost another guardrail.

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Republican voters embrace a disgrace in Trump

Super Tuesday highlighted the chasm that divides the American electoral middle, with a sharp wall of revulsion facing a steeply pitched slope of fear.

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Navalny and the dissemination of hope

When energy of great magnitude leaves a body, it has no choice but to spread far and wide, igniting countless souls.

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El Salvador’s risky tradeoff: Exchanging democracy for security

Nayib Bukele turned his country into a dictatorship, and most Salvadorans approve because he freed them from terror.

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In the Trump disqualification case, expect a Supreme sidestep

Trump’s case is weak, but that doesn’t mean he will lose.

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Deepfake political messaging is light-years ahead of the law. It’s past time to change that.

While the law struggles to catch up, candidates and prosecutors must use existing law to try to curb AI-generated disinformation.