Opinion

Maricopa County ballots cast in the 2020 general election are examined and recounted by contractors working for Florida-based company, Cyber Ninjas, Thursday, May 6, 2021 at Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Phoenix. The audit, ordered by the Arizona Senate, has the U.S. Department of Justice saying it is concerned about ballot security and potential voter intimidation arising from the unprecedented private recount of the 2020 presidential election results. (AP Photo/Matt York, Pool)
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I'm a proud progressive who thinks Liz Cheney, Mitt Romney and George W. Bush are true patriots
Elise Stefanik's shameful move
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Trump is banned for now, but Facebook still needs to change its policies

Global Views

A man reacts after he performed the last rites of his relative who died of COVID-19 at a crematorium on May 01, 2021 in New Delhi, India. With cases crossing 400,000 a day and with more than 3500 deaths recorded in the last 24 hours, India's Covid-19 crisis is intensifying and shows no signs of easing pressure on the country. A new wave of the pandemic has totally overwhelmed the country's healthcare services and has caused crematoriums to operate day and night as the number of victims continues to spiral out of control. (Photo by Anindito Mukherjee/Getty Images)
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The pandemic can't end unless the world helps India. Immediately.
Mohammed, severely malnourished 6-month old. Weighs under 4 kilos. The average should be 8 kilos at Therapeutic Centre, Abs hospital
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The best route to ending the humanitarian disaster in Yemen
MUMBAI, MAHARASHTRA, INDIA - 2021/05/03: People standing near the gate of a vaccination center with a notice saying "vaccine over closed for the day" in Mumbai. Vaccine was given only to people from 18-44 years age group. People above 45 years had to return back as there was no stock available to vaccinate them. (Photo by Ashish Vaishnav/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)
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With a Covid-19 vaccine patent waiver likely, time to rethink global intellectual property rules
BENGALURU, INDIA - APRIL 30: A man wearing PPE (Personal Protective Equipment) performs the last rites of a deceased relative in a disused granite quarry repurposed to cremate the dead due to COVID-19 on April 30, 2021 in Bengaluru, India. With recorded cases crossing 380,000 a day and 3000 deaths in the last 24 hours, India has more than 2 million active cases of COVID-19, the second-highest number in the world after the U.S. A new wave of the pandemic has totally overwhelmed the country's healthcare services and has caused crematoriums to operate day and night as the number of victims continues to spiral out of control. (Photo by Abhishek Chinnappa/Getty Images)
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Modi has offered little more than hollow words amid India's horrifying covid crisis
People light candles during a vigil in Habima Square in the Israeli coastal city of Tel Aviv on May 1, 2021,in the aftermath of a deadly stampede in a northern Jewish pilgrimage town. - The the overnight disaster killed at least 45 people at an Orthodox Jewish pilgrimage site, one of the nation's worst peacetime disasters. (Photo by JACK GUEZ / AFP) (Photo by JACK GUEZ/AFP via Getty Images)
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For a grieving Israel, a joyous holiday will forever be tainted
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi gestures as he speaks in a rally during the ongoing Phase 4 of West Bengal's assembly election, at Kawakhali on the outskirts of Siliguri on April 10, 2021. (Photo by Diptendu DUTTA / AFP) (Photo by DIPTENDU DUTTA/AFP via Getty Images)
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India's Covid crisis has revealed the real Narendra Modi
KABUL, AFGHANISTAN - SEPTEMBER 5: American service members deployed for Mission Resolute Support ride in a helicopter over Kabul on the way to Bagram Air Field on September 5, 2017 in Kabul, Afghanistan. Currently the United States has about 11,000 troops in the deployed in Afghanistan, with a reported 4,000 more expected to arrive in the coming weeks. Last month, President Donald Trump announced his plan for Afghanistan which called for an increase in troop numbers and a new conditions-based approach to the war, getting rid of a timetable for the withdrawal of American forces in the country. (Photo by Andrew Renneisen/Getty Images)
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The lies that were told to sustain the US and UK mission in Afghanistan
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Shola Mos-Shogbamimu: Lessons learned from a lifetime of activism
FILE - In this March 24, 2018, file photo, Isabel White of Parkland, Fla., holds a sign that reads "Americans for Gun Safety Now!" during the "March for Our Lives" rally in support of gun control in Washington, that was spearheaded by teens from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School after the 2018 mass shooting in Parkland, Fla. President Biden faces an uphill battle as he tries to push for more state laws that would allow authorities to temporarily disarm people who are considered a danger to themselves or others. State lawmakers, governors of both parties and former President Donald Trump embraced the so-called red flag laws after the 2018 mass shooting in Florida. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)
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What we can learn from Canada on gun control
FILE - In this Saturday, Feb. 20, 2021 file photo, Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny stands in a cage in the Babuskinsky District Court in Moscow, Russia. A doctor for imprisoned Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who is in the third week of a hunger strike, said on Saturday April 17, 2021, his health is deteriorating rapidly and the 44-year-old Kremlin critic could be on the verge of death. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, File)
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The last chance to save Alexey Navalny
An Ukrainian serviceman uses a periscope in a trench as he stands at his post on the frontline with Russia backed separatists near the town of Zolote, in the Lugansk region on April 8, 2021. - Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky was travelling to the country's eastern frontline on April 8, 2021, after a surge in clashes with separatist forces and a spike in tensions with Moscow. Fighting between the Ukrainian army and separatists has intensified in recent weeks, raising fears of a major escalation in the long-running conflict over the mainly Russian-speaking Donbas region. (Photo by STR / AFP) (Photo by STR/AFP via Getty Images)
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Holding the line against Russia in Ukraine
FILE -- American soldiers aboard a C-17 transport headed to Afghanistan, April 5, 2010. The United States and the Taliban are closing in on a deal to end America's longest war after six days of some of the most serious Afghan peace negotiations to date wrapped up on Jan. 26, 2019. (Damon Winter/The New York Times)
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Biden made the right call on Afghanistan

Political Op-eds

WASHINGTON, DC - SEPTEMBER 27: Former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie and former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani listen as U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a news conference in the Briefing Room of the White House on September 27, 2020 in Washington, DC. Trump is preparing for the first presidential debate with former Vice President and Democratic Nominee Joe Biden on September 29th in Cleveland, Ohio. (Photo by Joshua Roberts/Getty Images)
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