1984 Welcomes You

A little corruption, a little snooping. What else do you need?

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Nixon Aide Reportedly Admitted Drug War Was Meant To Target Black People

"Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did."

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'Your whole life is the Holocaust!' The woman who was born in Auschwitz

Angela Orosz gave evidence in the trial of a Nazi guard: ‘I was so malnourished, I was unable to cry. That saved me.’

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On CNN, Debating Trump and the Ku Klux Klan. Really.

Jeffrey Lord, a former Reagan staffer, and Van Jones, a former Obama staffer, butt heads live over Donald Trump’s handling of the K.K.K.

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FBI vs. Apple Establishes a New Phase of the Crypto Wars

The case looks more and more like a concerted effort by the government to find new ways around unbreakable encryption — rather than try to break it.

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Eight Memorable Passages From Apple’s Fiery Response to the FBI

Apple lawyers filed an exhaustive, fiery response Thursday to a court order demanding the company write software to defeat its own security protocols.

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Indelible Image of Boy’s Pat on Obama’s Head

A photograph of a young black boy feeling President Obama’s hair has been on view in the West Wing for years.

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This photo of Obama and a little visitor at a Black History Month celebration is remarkable

A must-see photo.

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When Americans are murdered for being Muslim

A year after their daughters were killed, one North Carolina family asks: How do you grieve when you're surrounded by hate?

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Dashcam video shows Montana police shooting man as he steered car away

Analysis of footage highlights officers were prepared to use weapons well before making contact with Loren Simpson, who died after being shot at 24 times

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The agency also continued surveilling friendly heads of state despite Obama publicly saying otherwise.

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The Untold Story Of President Obama After Sandy Hook

Excerpted from THE PRESIDENT’S DEVOTIONAL: The Daily Readings That Inspired President Obama, by Joshua DuBois by arrangement with HarperOne, an imprint of HarperCollins. Copyright © Joshu

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Physicians Demand End To 20-Year-Old Ban On Gun Violence Research

It's been nearly 20 years since any scientific research has been done on the issue.

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Dec 2, 2015 - mass shooting today in Los Angeles County

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Here’s The Crazy Story About Thanksgiving You’ve Never Heard

Especially the parts about Squanto the "friendly Indian."

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Delving Into Teen Suicide

A collection of reader stories and debate sparked by Hanna Rosin’s Atlantic cover story, “The Silicon Valley Suicides.”

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Americans around tables with friends/families in warm homes should give thanks they aren’t refugees

As hundreds of millions of Americans gather with family and friends to celebrate Thanksgiving this year, we should give thanks that we aren’t refugees.

Whether praying to a deity or expressing our humanity, we should give thanks that our homes have not been destroyed, that we have not seen friends and family killed or injured by bombs and bullets.

We should give thanks that we have never been raped, nor lived with the knowledge that our daughters and women have been.

We should give thanks that we have not had to huddle in camps, low on food or not knowing where to find the next meal, or crowded onto trains, our children crying, our elderly groaning in pain, often smelling the stench of human excrement.

We should be thankful we don’t live in a no-win situation, caught between two, three, and in the case of Syria, four armies, all shooting, bombing, rounding up, vandalizing and marauding.

We should give thanks that our country has been bombed only once and that was 74 years ago. We should be thankful that our country hasn’t been invaded since a slave-owning break-away confederacy attacked the territory of those loyal to the Constitution more than 150 years ago.

We should be thankful that we live in a land of relative abundance and low crime.  

We should be thankful that we were born or have immigrated to this country and remember that we didn’t make the United States, the United States made us—its freedom of expression, religion and action, its relative abundance, its consistent rule of law and its openness to immigrants. We have our problems, specifically our mistreatment of minorities; a wide gap between the wealthy and everyone else; a lack of cradle-to-grave healthcare and education for all; and our dependence on fossil fuels. But we at least have the possibility of fixing those problems without resorting to violence.

In particular, Donald Trump and Carly Fiorina should be thankful for being born rich. Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz should be thankful for being born with high intelligence, a gift of god or chance that no one works to get. Jeb Bush should be thankful he was born the scion of a political dynasty.

All these individuals and everyone else about to take a knife and fork to a large succulent piece of white turkey meat slathered with gravy could have just as easily been born in Aleppo or Palmyra.

And being thankful that we are not refugees, we should open our hearts—and our shores—to those unfortunates who are. Otherwise, we lose our humanity and our country loses the reason it exists.