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In a response to outrage from fellow House Democrats over a tweet that mentioned “unthinkable atrocities” by the United States and Israel alongside Hamas and the Taliban, Ilhan Omar said that she did not equate “terrorist organizations with democratic countries.”

DECCAN CHRONICLE. Updated Jun 10, 2021, 1:03 am IST In short, no matter how legitimately political power is acquired, justice demands the balancing factor of an opposition  News As the world reeled from the Belarus kidnapping, the crackdown in Hong Kong and Israel’s bombardment of the Gaza Strip, I came across a poignant description not just of another tragedy but of an underlying factor in all such traumas. Looking back at Beijing’s Tiananmen Square massacre of June 4, 1989, when hund...

The Atlantic Officers in the United States don’t get as much instruction as police in other rich countries. Christopher Anderson / Magnum In response to the high rate at which American police kill civilians, many on the left have taken up the call for defunding the police, or abolishing the police entirely. But some policing experts are instead emphasizing a different approach that they say could reduce police killings: training officers better, longer, and on different subjects. “We have o...

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