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Can Keir Starmer Persuade Britain to Dump Its Wartime Prime Minister Like Churchill? Brexit

Can Keir Starmer Persuade Britain to Dump Its Wartime Prime Minister Like Churchill?

It’s one of history’s greatest illustrations of ingratitude. In July 1945, fresh from his near-superhuman triumph in World War II, Winston Churchill led Britain’s Conservative party to one of its worst ever defeats. Voters decided that a wartime prime minister was no longer needed, thanks, and they tossed him aside…
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April 4, 2020
Israel Had Never Issued A Press Credential To A Journalist From My Country. It Gave Me One. Hebron

Israel Had Never Issued A Press Credential To A Journalist From My Country. It Gave Me One.

I am a journalist focused on U.S. foreign policy in the Muslim-majority world, and I have spent years trying not to write about Israel and Palestine.  I couldn’t possibly get it right, I told myself. I imagine the assumptions my byline triggers for some readers — that anyone with a…
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April 4, 2020
Trump Decided a Global Pandemic Was a Good Time to Be a Neighborhood Bully Maduro

Trump Decided a Global Pandemic Was a Good Time to Be a Neighborhood Bully

POPAYÁN, Colombia—The ravages of the pandemic have begun here now, and as it worsens millions of Venezuelan migrants pose a tremendous challenge to fragile infrastructure throughout Central and South America, where poor living conditions and a lack of resources mean they are largely defenseless against the novel coronavirus. That would be…
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April 4, 2020
Trump Sent the Guard to the Coronavirus Front Line but Denied Them Military Care Obamacare

Trump Sent the Guard to the Coronavirus Front Line but Denied Them Military Care

Boston GlobeThousands of National Guardsmen around the country are in contact with people who’ve contracted COVID-19. But while the federal government has called on them for frontline assistance in battling the pandemic, it’s not giving them what they need to protect themselves: access to the military’s health insurance.The approximately 20,000…
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April 4, 2020
When the COVID-19 crisis is over, our daily lives could be changed for the better Trickle-Down

When the COVID-19 crisis is over, our daily lives could be changed for the better

By Don TapscottContributing ColumnistSat., April 4, 2020timer7 min. readTo do our part to “flatten the curve,” many of us have made dramatic changes to our everyday lives. While there are lots of unknowns, I wonder whether any of these changes will persist — will we cocoon ourselves within our immediate…
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April 4, 2020
The Coronavirus Has Given Fresh Life To “Agenda 21”, An Old Conspiracy Theory Yellow Vests

The Coronavirus Has Given Fresh Life To “Agenda 21”, An Old Conspiracy Theory

The journalists at BuzzFeed News are proud to bring you trustworthy and relevant reporting about the coronavirus. To help keep this news free, become a member and sign up for our newsletter, Outbreak Today. The coronavirus crisis has brought new life to an old conspiracy theory about a totalitarian world…
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April 4, 2020
Plant ontogeny determines strength and associated plant fitness consequences of plant‐mediated interactions between herbivores and flower visitors Bees

Plant ontogeny determines strength and associated plant fitness consequences of plant‐mediated interactions between herbivores and flower visitors

1 INTRODUCTION Interactions between species are the foundations of ecological communities. Ontogenetic stages affect the role that individuals of a species play within a community (Miller & Rudolf, 2011; Nakazawa, 2015). For example, plants gradually develop from seedling through pre‐reproductive and reproductive stages, to eventually senesce and die (Boege &…
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April 4, 2020