Politics
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Although an amendment in the House this past July to defund one of the National Security Agency’s dragnet surveillance programs fell short by 7 votes, the coalescence of ideologically-dissimilar representatives who voted for it marked a watershed moment in our current dialogue on citizen rights. The amendment in question sought to rein in the N.S.A’s
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A few weeks ago, French military forces intervened in the West African nation of Mali to save the country from totally falling into the hands of Islamist extremists. We know this because these extremists, who for months have hijacked the northern part of the country from the internationally recognized government in Bamako, south of the
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