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Imagine a private, global super court that empowers corporations to bend countries to their will. Say a nation tries to prosecute a corrupt CEO or ban dangerous pollution. Imagine that a company could turn to this super court and sue the whole country for daring to interfere with its profits, demanding hundreds of millions or even billions…
Ann Coulter rides back to her hotel after appearances on Oct. 23, 2013, in Washington. (Matt McClain/ The Washington Post) Let’s put some cards on the table: I’m not a fan of Ann Coulter. I think her shtick was played out a decade ago. With each passing season, Coulter’s desperate efforts to stay in the…
Hillary Clinton has managed to win support from Republicans without conceding any part of the progressive economic agenda she outlined during the Democratic primary. But with fall approaching and momentum on Clinton’s side, Democrats and Republicans alike are looking over the horizon to a thornier reality: if elected, Clinton would likely become the first Democrat…
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Almost a year and a half into Saudi Arabia’s U.S.-backed bombing campaign in Yemen, the humanitarian toll has become so extensive that the International Committee of the Red Cross has taken the unusual step of donating entire morgue units to Yemeni hospitals. “The hospitals were not able to cope,” said Rima Kamal, a Yemen-based spokesperson…
It’s almost musical, isn’t it? In a development that makes perfect sense this year, a 2014 photo from a gunsmithing shop, Gulf of Maine Gunsmithing in Raymond, Maine, has suddenly gone viral after hitting the Twitters Tuesday. Not content with a series of rather boring warnings about “Demarats” and their desire to tax you to…
Photo Anne Frank, left. At right, Rouwaida Hanoun, a Syrian 5-year-old who was wounded during an airstrike on Aleppo last week. Credit Left, Anne Frank Fonds — Basel, via Getty Images AMSTERDAM — On April 30, 1941, a Jewish man here in Amsterdam wrote a desperate letter to an American friend, pleading for help emigrating…
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump is leading Hillary Clinton by just one percentage point in Missouri, a state the Democrats have won only twice since 1976. A new Monmouth University poll released Tuesday shows Mr. Trump with 44% to Mrs. Clinton’s 43%. Democrats have won the state only twice since 1976 — Bill Clinton won in 1992 and…
When will this election end? The Leftists Rooting for Trump, and Other Scary Campfire Stories | The Nation. Source: The Leftists Rooting for Trump, and Other Scary Campfire Stories | The Nation
Breitbart seems nice. One of our favorite things about Donald Trump’s nonexistent “pivot” from the primaries to the general election is that, for somebody who thinks he’s such a salesman, he sure doesn’t know the first thing about his target audience. Oh, the toilet-water-drinking heathens who made up Trump’s base during the primaries absolutely love…