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The great difficulty with Guantanamo is it was perceived correctly as being a place where people were not being detained subject to rules. I don’t think the world thinks that you can’t detain suspected terrorists – the world thinks you can do that, but you have to do it pursuant to rules and to clear charges.

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The Mormons’ passage from bugbears of the Republican Party to its stalwarts may be analogized to a similar move among middle-class white Southerners, to whom the Republican Party was anathema until the 1970s and ’80s, after which it became almost the sole representative.

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It seems strange to the rest of the world, but we Americans can’t seem to stop talking about how other countries should be democratic like we are.

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May 19, 2024

It seems strange to the rest of the world, but we Americans can’t seem to stop talking about how other countries should be democratic like we are.

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May 19, 2024

The Mormons’ passage from bugbears of the Republican Party to its stalwarts may be analogized to a similar move among middle-class white Southerners, to whom the Republican Party was anathema until the 1970s and ’80s, after which it became almost the sole representative.

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