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A group puts up flyers and a booth on Sproul Plaza calling for protesters to "Shut Down Milo Yiannopoulos," at the University of California, Berkeley campus in Berkeley, Calif., on Sept. 21, 2017. Right-wing showman Milo Yiannopoulos is holding a "Free Speech Week" at the University of California, Berkeley with a planned lineup including conservative firebrands Steve Bannon and Ann Coulter.

Students like free speech as long as they like the speech

May 23, 2019 at 9:09 p.m.

If they disagree with what you say, about half of America's college students believe they have right to prevent you from saying it. That's just one of the eye-opening, jaw-dropping...

Documentarian Ken Burns and Lynn Novick have created a 10-part film, "The Vietnam War," which premiered Sept. 17, 2017, on PBS.

Learning to appreciate the ‘Vietnam syndrome’

May 23, 2019 at 9:09 p.m.

About a dozen of us strolled wearily and unhappily into the Greyhound bus station early that morning on a date that we would never forget. It was Nov. 19, 1969,...

President Donald Trump answers a question from the media as he arrives at the White House on Sept. 14, 2017, in Washington, D.C.

Trump just can’t quit those alt-right supporters

June 7, 2019 at 3:55 a.m.

I love Americans. When we're not arguing about politics, we argue about people who are arguing about politics. I woke up Friday morning to a Twitter storm from President Donald...

Donald Trump, left, and Kanye West pose for a picture in the lobby of Trump Tower in New York, Tuesday, Dec. 13, 2016.

America’s first hip-hop president isn’t who you think

May 23, 2019 at 9:09 p.m.

Although they hardly could seem to be less alike sometimes, President Donald Trump and people of color have had a love-hate relationship for nearly three decades. That thought came to...

Dreamers Karen Caudillo, 21, of Florida is comforted by Jairo Reyes, 25, of Rogers, Ark., listen as Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., accompanied by members of the House and Senate Democrats, speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Sept. 6, 2017.

Trump says ‘rest easy,’ but DACA recipients need more than a promise

May 23, 2019 at 9:09 p.m.

Suddenly in Washington, deal-making is busting out all over, most significantly between President Donald Trump and his new BFPNF — Best Friends, Probably Not Forever — in Democratic leadership. In...

Demonstrators hold a flag during a protest in Washington, D.C., in response to the Trump administration's announcement Sept. 5, 2017, that it would end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program.

Can Democrats get past identity politics?

May 23, 2019 at 9:09 p.m.

Before he slithered out of the White House, President Donald Trump's former chief strategist Steve Bannon gave Democrats a piece of advice that Trump himself shows no desire to follow:...

In this Aug. 31, 2005 file photo, President George W. Bush looks out the window of Air Force One inspecting damage from Hurricane Katrina while flying over New Orleans en route back to the White House. Bush never recovered from his flyover of Hurricane Katrina's devastation.

‘Where was Obama during Katrina?’ Trick question

May 23, 2019 at 9:09 p.m.

Some questions are more satisfying than their answers — if, that is, you care about facts. One such question exploded across the internet in defense of President Donald Trump against...

Riot police stand before antifa members and counterprotesters during a right-wing No to Marxism rally on Aug. 27, 2017, at Martin Luther King Jr. Park in Berkeley, Calif.

Antifa’s unfortunate gift to the far right

May 23, 2019 at 9:09 p.m.

During his recent Phoenix freak out, President Donald Trump bashed one of his favorite go-to scapegoats, the news media, who vex him with their insistence on reporting facts he doesn't...

Boxer Floyd Mayweather Jr. (L) and UFC lightweight champion Conor McGregor face off during a news conference at the KA Theatre at MGM Grand Hotel & Casino on Aug. 23, 2017, in Las Vegas, Nev.

Exploiting race is not new to boxing — or to politics

May 23, 2019 at 9:09 p.m.

In her acclaimed 1987 book, "On Boxing," Joyce Carol Oates lamented that the sport had become "America's tragic theater." So has politics. But let's look at one crisis at a...

Comedian Dick Gregory, left, listens to Cook County Circuit Court Clerk Dorothy Brown, right, at a news conference Thursday, Aug. 31, 2006, in Chicago where Brown announced she wanted to be the mayor of Chicago.

Dick Gregory understood the political power of comedy

May 23, 2019 at 9:09 p.m.

Dick Gregory died last weekend at age 84 after leading a bunch of lives. He was at various times a stand-up comedian, social critic, political activist, political candidate, nutrition regimen...

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