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An abandoned building and smokestack at the Heart Mountain internment camp in 2005. An interpretive center is now on the camp's site.

Trump needs to visit a Japanese American internment camp: Column

There is no racial or religious test for being an American. We should not start one now.

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Students at the University of Chicago participate in a walk-out and rally to protest President-elect Donald Trump.

In face of Trump's revised racist rhetoric, complacency is not an option: Voices
Calls for 'law and order' cropped up during civil rights movement. Language's return places false blame, burden on minorities.

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Punchlines: Need a new way to cope with Trump? Move to Denver!
The late-night comics on other election results involving a recreational (for some) herb.

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So much for American exceptionalism: Stephen Prothero
The U.S. is now part of a global pandemic that threatens religious pluralism and minority rights.

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A billboard in Danilovgrad, Montenegro, on Nov. 16, 2016.

Note to Trump, Putin is not our friend: Max Boot
The only real question is what damage will be done before the bromance inevitably ends.

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Voting in Bradfordton, Ill., on Nov. 8, 2016.

Still time for an election audit: Column
This should be standard — and it's easy, too.

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Reconsider stun gun bans: Our view
Not only are the devices protected by the 2nd Amendment, but there is a public safety case.

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2nd Amendment does not apply: Opposing view
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court opinion upholding a ban on stun guns.

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Donald Trump supporters in a rally in Denver.

Get off your high horses, Democrats: #tellusatoday
All we hear is condescension, smugness, self-righteousness and crying wolf over and over again.

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Police not adequately trained on mental health: Column
As systems struggle, U.S. would do well to borrow from U.K. program that puts nurses, cops on streets together