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Newly arriving Jewish refugee from the Nazi Holocaust wave from the ship "S.S. Awarea" as it pulls into Haifa port on April 6, 1948.

Deporting asylum-seekers without giving them a chance to make their case would violate US and international laws

Immigration

President Donald Trump’s tweets show an “ignorance of the law,” says immigration attorney Charles Kuck.

Novelist’s Loner Protagonist is All Too Real in Tucson

Arts, Culture & Media

A Week of Bests: Commencement Speeches, Vocal Ranges, and Scares

Arts, Culture & Media

Sideshow Podcast: Twitter’s Unfinished Scripts: Really Funny Movies That Will Never Get Made

Arts, Culture & Media

Five Things You Had To See Online This Week

Arts, Culture & Media
The heated rhetoric between Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un shows no signs of abating.

What happens if Trump decides to launch a nuclear weapon, and his advisers disagree?

Conflict

What happens if the US starts to stumble toward nuclear war?

Youth in Istanbul, Turkey protest the results of a referendum on their president's powers.

Turks vote by a slim margin to expand their president’s powers, and dissent erupts on social media

Global Politics

A razor-thin victory for Turkey’s president seems to further destabilize a NATO ally.

Americans started drawing parallels between Orwell's realities and the Trump Administration as early as his first day in office, when Press Secretary Sean Spicer berated and lied to the media in his first briefing.

In our Orwellian reality, reach for ‘Animal Farm’ with your ‘1984’

Media

In “Animal Farm,” George Orwell traces the slippery slope from democracy to totalitarianism. It looks a lot like the US today.

President-elect Donald Trump, seen Friday on his USA Thank You Tour in Florida

‘Unpresidented’ Trump tweet on China sets off deluge of mockery

Global Politics

A little typo goes a long way this morning.

Three men on seats on stage, with word ATLANTA behind them

Hashtags might not get your favorite actor the part, but studios do hear your pleas

Media

#MakeMulanRight. #RyanPotterForTimDrake. #AAIronFist — these campaigns don’t always work perfectly, but they do get people’s attention on diversity.