It isn’t yet clear if the wave of protests that has swept across Iran since last Thursday is the start of a sustained popular drive for political change in that clergy-ruled theocracy, or if it’s merely a short-lived outburst that will be handily suppressed by the authorities. So far, nearly …
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The Roy Moore saga gets worse every day. The allegations piling up against the Alabama Republican now include Moore, then thelocal DA, being banned from an area mallandcalling a high school principal to pull a girl out of trigonometry class so he could ask her out on a date. The …
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Over the weekend, the Washington Post previewed passages from former DNC chair Donna Brazile’s much-anticipated “blistering” tell-all book about the 2016 presidential campaign, Hacks.The piece written by Phillip Rucker originally included a passage that read as follows: “Whenever Brazile got frustrated with Clinton’s aides, she writes, she would remind them …
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