At some important moments, John McCain spoke out for a different kind of America than the America that elected Donald Trump.
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Trump’s transgender ban: Another time to resist
The big news out of Washington last week was the health-care vote. But that bit of positive news shouldn’t erase another big development: Trump’s decision to ban transgender people from military service. It’s not surprising that Trump has jettisoned yet another vulnerable group. He tosses aside anybody who gets in the way of something he […]
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National security and the problem with Syria
As we leave Afghanistan, will we jump into Syria? Should we? An estimated 80,000 people have been killed in the Syrian conflict, and the United Nations estimates that more than 5 million have been uprooted. Officials in Jordan say that 10 percent of that country’s population now consists of Syrian refugees, according to a BBC […]
