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Eric Gay / AP ESPN's Robert Lee Blunder—and the Backlash It Provoked
A sports commentator was reassigned from a football game at the University of Virginia based on his name—provoking howls of outrage.
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Aaron Bernstein Striking an Impossible Balance in Turkey
The U.S. war against ISIS depends on the Kurds—an inconvenient fact for Jim Mattis's visit to Ankara.
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J. Scott Applewhite / AP Paul Ryan Doesn't Want to Fight With Trump
In keeping with his non-confrontational approach, the House speaker offered the gentlest of criticism during a CNN town hall for the president’s response to the violence in Charlottesville.
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Joshua Roberts / Reuters Trump's Recycled Afghanistan Policy
Campaign-trail rhetoric aside, his inability to define victory was the most troubling part of his speech.
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Joshua Roberts / Reuters Full Transcript: Donald Trump Announces His Afghanistan Policy
“No place is beyond the reach of American might and American arms.”
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Joshua Roberts / Reuters Trump's Plan for Afghanistan: No Timeline for Exit
Despite prime-time billing for the president’s announcement, Americans heard a familiar argument about extending the war.
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Andrew Harnik / AP The President Who Looked at the Sun
Despite warnings, Trump gazed directly at the eclipse.
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Christoph Van Der Perre / Reuters High Traffic, High Risk in the Strait of Malacca
The chokepoint, near where Sunday’s collision between the USS John S. McCain and an oil tanker occurred, is one of the world’s busiest shipping routes.
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AP Remembering Jerry Lewis
The iconic actor, singer, director, and entertainer passed away at the age of 91.
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REUTERS/Stephanie Keith The Far Right's Day in Boston
Participants in a “free speech” rally in Boston say they aren’t white nationalists, but claim there is a “war against whites” in America.
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Jonathan Drake / Reuters Durham's Anti-Klan Block Party
Hundreds of residents came out to the streets after rumors of a white-supremacist rally protesting the removal of a Confederate statue.
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Joshua Roberts / Reuters What Europe Can Teach America About Free Speech
In an unregulated marketplace of ideas, private citizens need to take up the burden of holding the line against racist extremism.
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Jim Bourg / Reuters Black Charlottesville Has Seen This All Before
The return of violent white-supremacist rallies to the city is a special threat to its African American community, but not a new one.
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Chip Somodevilla / Getty The Women Behind the 'Alt-Right'
The overwhelmingly male crowd at the white-nationalist rally in Charlottesville shouldn’t be seen as an absence of women in the movement overall.
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters 'Before I Make a Statement, I Need the Facts'
President Trump responded quickly to a terrorist attack in Barcelona, but waited to condemn the one in Charlottesville.
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Patrick Semansky / AP Baltimore Takes Down Its Confederate Monuments
The city removed them less than a week after violent protests broke out in Charlottesville, Virginia, over a statue of Robert E. Lee.
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AP Photo/Brynn Anderson Strange and Moore Advance to Runoff in Alabama Special Election
The Republican race tested the power of President Trump’s endorsement.
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David A. Graham / The Atlantic Arrests Begin Following Durham Confederate Statue Toppling
Moments after a press conference demanding amnesty for protesters, sheriff’s deputies arrested Takiyah Thompson, who placed a rope around a Confederate monument Monday night.
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters After Charlottesville, Business Leaders Are Dumping the Trump Administration
Several prominent executives have resigned their positions on the president's manufacturing council and issued statements decrying racism.
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Stringer / Reuters 'Alt-Right' Leaders Won't Condemn Ramming Suspect
Two prominent white nationalist leaders held a press conference Monday in which they responded to the fallout from Saturday’s “Unite the Right” rally in Virginia.
