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Free speech is being muzzled in America

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No family name is more familiar in modern US history as the Kennedys, who have been holding public office since 1884.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr: A controversial figure with a ‘cursed’ family history

The Kennedys have criticised Robert for his stance on vaccines and then, for his support for his father's alleged assassin's release

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Nancy Pelosi presides the US House of Representatives vote on the impeachment of US President Donald Trump at the US Capitol, January 13, 2021

This Impeachment Is Different

On Wednesday afternoon,Donald Trump, the third president in American history to be impeached, became the first to be impeached twice. TheHouse of Representativesvoted 232–197 to impeach Trump for…

David A. Graham 15 January 2021

U.S. President Donald Trump walks in a corridor of the White House to greet visitors, while a portrait of Hillary Clinton hangs on the wall, March 7, 2017 in Washington, DC . (Getty)

How Americans Were Driven to Extremes

Every day brings more evidence of the United States’ profound political polarization. Partisan intransigence, vitriol, and divisiveness now contaminate most government institutions. What is…

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Is the US going to war with Venezuela?

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