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Meet Melat Kiros, the Democratic Socialist Who Won Colorado’s Primary
—Courtesy of Melat Kiros Melat Kiros, a 29-year-old Democratic Socialist, defeated Rep. Diana DeGette of Colorado in Tuesday’s primary election, ending the Denver congresswoman’s nearly three-decade hold on the seat. Kiros’s victory over DeGette and fellow challenger Wanda James marked the latest sign of the progressive wing’s deepening influence over the Democratic Party. Read ore:…
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The Vultures Arrived Before the Rescue Teams
Big earthquakes flatten buildings into rubble the same way everywhere. Last Wednesday, when back-to-back quakes of magnitudes 7.5 and 7.2 rocked a large part of my native Venezuela, I found some dark consolation in the thought that such tragedies are impartial to place. The tectonic plates deep below had exerted their formidable powers because this…
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Wait, it’s a candle? Her beeswax fruit and veggie ones look so real, you’ll want to take a bite
Jessica Gonzalez hustles behind her booth at the recent Renegade Craft Fair, frantically ringing up sales, answering questions and packaging her beeswax candles. It’s hot on the grounds of the Los Angeles State Historic Park in April, but 35-year-old Gonzalez and her fiancé, Jordan Colindres, keep their cool as a crowd gathers to admire her…
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The unlikely cause bringing liberals and conservatives together
“This is demonic stuff.” “It’s downright abusive.” “That sounds like torture to me.” “It’s inhumane.” It causes “physical problems and psychological anguish.” These are quotes describing the pork industry’s standard practice of confining pregnant pigs in tiny crates, called gestation crates, which are so small that the pigs can’t even turn around. Millions of pigs…
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Powerful Iranian clerics call for assassination of Trump, Netanyahu: ‘Send them to hell’
Iran’s most senior clerics have called for the assassinations of President Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, declaring the leaders mahdour al-dam — or deserving of death. The 88-member Assembly of Experts issued a 10-point statement in which they said killing “the wicked prime minister of the Zionist regime” and “the criminal American president”…
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Drive Slower, Save Money on Gas. Thanks, Physics!
it’s the season for summer road trips, but sky-high gas prices make that a costly proposition. Unfortunately, most of us are stuck with internal-combustion vehicles, so we have to pay up (in more ways than one—hello climate change). Want to save some bucks? It’s simple: Just slow down. Of course, that means it’ll take longer…
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The war on Fourth of July fireworks shows divides California: ‘Left-wing lunacy’ or basic sanity?
John Morris was eager to mark the 250th anniversary of America with his annual fireworks show at Alamitos Beach. Then, he discovered the California Coastal Commission would only approve a show using lighted drones, not real fireworks. He couldn’t believe it. “Of course it’s going to be about fireworks,” Morris told the commission at a…
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Air conditioning is not a moral failure
As temperatures blew past 100°F in cities across Europe last week, it was difficult to tell what was generating more hot air: the weather or the discourse around the right way to endure it. On the western side of the Atlantic, the answer was almost uniformly obvious: air conditioning. Just around 20 percent of European…
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Even in ugly times, the bicentennial united us. America 250 still can
America 250” is no “Spirit of ‘76.” For those of us who remember the bicentennial, the semiquincentennial is a complete and utter dud. Many fine festivities will take place on and around July 4, but compared with the years-long nationwide celebration that marked this country’s 200th anniversary, 250 feels like a nonevent. Perhaps it was…
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Who is actually ruling Iran right now?
For 36 years, the question of who ultimately ruled Iran had one answer: Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. While Iran has an elected president and legislature, that power is subordinate to the religious supreme leader, who has the last say over all foreign and domestic policies and is the commander in chief of Iran’s conventional…