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Abdallah Fayyad

Abdallah Fayyad

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Lawmakers are overreacting to crime

When it comes to public safety, lawmakers have two primary jobs: enacting policies that curb crime and making their constituents feel safe. It might...

25.04.2024 10

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Trump’s jury doesn’t have to like him to be fair to him

As the Manhattan district attorney’s case against Donald Trump got underway this week — with the former president accused of falsifying business...

20.04.2024 10

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How DC’s Metro lured riders back

If the United States had a public transit problem, Washington’s Metro was a good case in point. In the years leading up to the Covid-19 pandemic,...

10.04.2024 10

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Trump has set up a perfect avenue for potential corruption

Truth Social, Donald Trump’s social media platform, has not exactly been a resounding business success story, but it recently made the former...

04.04.2024 6

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America has a good model for how to handle immigration: America

The United States immigration system is so dysfunctional that it might sometimes seem as though it has no redeeming features. Asylum seekers are left...

01.03.2024 10

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Trump is suddenly in need of a lot of cash. That’s everyone’s problem.

Two recent verdicts have now left Donald Trump on the hook for nearly half a billion dollars. On Friday, a New York judge handed the former president ...

17.02.2024 100

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7 questions about migration and the US-Mexico border, answered

The biggest spectacle in Washington this week was the unraveling of an immigration deal in Congress, a border security bill that Republicans pushed...

09.02.2024 7

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Cities have always been havens for immigrants. So why are they struggling now?

Come nighttime in Boston, some migrant families with no place to stay are put in cabs and sent to Logan International Airport — where, according to...

08.02.2024 20

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What the conspiracy theory about Nikki Haley’s citizenship is really about

Donald Trump, who propelled his political career with the lie that Barack Obama wasn’t born in the United States, is again spreading baseless claims...

21.01.2024 6

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The shoplifting scare might not have been real — but its effects are

Over the last couple of years, it seemed that America was experiencing a shoplifting epidemic. Videos of people brazenly stealing merchandise from...

07.01.2024 6

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Americans’ pandemic savings are dwindling. That’s not necessarily a bad thing.

A few years ago, Americans saved a lot of money at an unprecedented speed. When the pandemic hit, household spending plummeted as people stayed home...

13.12.2023 10

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How the keffiyeh became a symbol of the Palestinian cause

There’s a scene in Home Alone 2 that stood out to me when I was a kid. It’s the one where Kevin McCallister gets chased through the streets of New...

06.12.2023 2

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Why Israel imprisons so many Palestinians

On October 12, in the West Bank village of Wadi al-Seeq, Israeli soldiers and settlers detained three Palestinians and spent hours abusing them. The...

23.11.2023 30

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The cycle of violence starts with the Israeli occupation

Hamas’s attack was as shocking as it was tragic. But it doesn’t justify what Israel is doing.

12.10.2023 2

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