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Cathy Young

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Push for police reform is falling short

Four years ago, the murder of George Floyd, the Black man whom the nation watched die while pinned to the ground under Minnesota police officer Derek...

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Time to honor others fighting to be free

Memorial Day honors Americans who gave their lives fighting for this country, many of them in wars essential to the survival of freedom in this...

23.05.2024 40

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Ex-progressive skewers movement

17.05.2024 40

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Biden's fraught call on arms for Israel

President Joe Biden’s statement on Wednesday that he will stop the shipment of offensive weapons like bombs and artillery shells to Israel if...

10.05.2024 40

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College protests could help elect Trump

Pro-Palestinian protests that have rocked college campuses across America over the past two weeks have recently escalated. Protesters at Columbia...

03.05.2024 10

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Campus protests test free speech limits

As pro-Palestinian protests continue to roil Columbia University a week after university president Minouche Shafik called in the police to remove a...

26.04.2024 10

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Critique shows NPR needs balance

Has National Public Radio become too left-wing and mired in progressive dogma, alienating many American listeners? That’s the charge made in a...

19.04.2024 10

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Trump shifts to find safe ground on abortion

With abortion rights emerging as a major issue in November's presidential election, Donald Trump, the Republican candidate, is scrambling to carve...

12.04.2024 10

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Oklahoma teen death a cautionary tale

In February, after the death of Oklahoma high schooler Nex Benedict following a confrontation in the school restroom became a national story, I wrote...

05.04.2024 10

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Moscow attack undermines Putin's image

In some ways, last week’s horrific attack on the Crocus City Hall concert venue in a Moscow suburb, apparently by Islamist extremists, was...

29.03.2024 60

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Ambiguous words, unambiguous meaning

Donald Trump said last weekend at an Ohio rally, “ … if I don't get elected, it's going to be a bloodbath …” Initial reports about what the...

22.03.2024 10

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Biden is walking a tight line on Israel

As election-year politics heat up in the United States, the question of American support for Israel has become the focus of dissension, and President...

15.03.2024 50

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Progressives err on Hamas rape denial​​​​​​​

This week, a team of United Nations experts that visited Israel last month to investigate claims of sexual violence during the Oct. 7 Hamas raids said...

08.03.2024 6

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Rushed judgment in Oklahoma teen death

Last week, a horrific story appeared in the media and made the rounds: Nex Benedict, an Oklahoma teen who was a biological female but identified as...

01.03.2024 20

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Will Navalny's death spark resistance?

Almost exactly two years after Vladimir Putin launched an invasion of Ukraine, the Russian autocrat shocked the world with his latest crime: the...

23.02.2024 4

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Lesson on the dangers of contrarianism

The April 20, 2021 conviction of Minneapolis, Minnesota police officer Derek Chauvin in the May 2020 murder of George Floyd, a Black man whose death...

16.02.2024 40

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Carlson-Putin: a piece of propaganda

09.02.2024 30

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Mariupol film exposes savagery of war

02.02.2024 10

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Nikki Haley should stay in the GOP race

Donald Trump’s comfortable victory in New Hampshire, the state where GOP primary voters are seen as most sympathetic to sole remaining challenger...

26.01.2024 50

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Weighing toll of civilian deaths in Gaza

More than three months after the Hamas terror attack on Israel and the start of Israel’s war in Gaza, criticism of Israel’s conduct in this war...

19.01.2024 9

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Christie's exit a sad comment on GOP

Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie’s decision to get out of the presidential race on Wednesday probably won’t affect the outcome of the GOP...

12.01.2024 7

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Gay's ouster signals larger problem of integrity

The resignation of Harvard president Claudine Gay amid charges of plagiarism — and of failing to properly respond to antisemitism on the school’s...

05.01.2024 6

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As 2023 sunsets, war and the rise of extremism imperil freedom

As  2023 lumbers to a close, causes for alarm about the future of freedom are all around us: in Ukraine, in the Middle East, in Europe, even in the...

22.12.2023 5

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Trump might not become a dictator

In 2016, when the once-preposterous idea of President Donald Trump looked increasingly possible, many commentators — not only on the left, but on...

15.12.2023 9

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Kissinger's legacy of moral compromises

There is a certain symbolism in the fact that Henry Kissinger, the man whose career helped shape so many events in the 20th century, lived to be...

11.12.2023 5

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GOP should reconsider on Ukraine aid

Russian television propagandists who rarely have a good word for Americans rejoiced and applauded Republicans in the House and Senate on Wednesday....

11.12.2023 7

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The Best of Reason: Will Russia Ever Be Free?

Freedom Cathy Young | 12.5.2023 12:00 PM This week's featured article is "Will Russia Ever Be Free?" by Cathy Young. ...

05.12.2023 6

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