| The women activists for peace in Syria Posted: 31 Aug 2018 12:24 PM PDT ![The women activists for peace in Syria]( "The women activists for peace in Syria") After seven years of war in Syria, so many men have been killed or left the country that women are now a dominant presence in many parts of Syrian society. This is especially true in Idlib, the last province still largely controlled by opposition forces and home to more than a million people who fled the war from elsewhere. Oddly enough, with the Assad regime preparing to take the province by force, the women of Idlib are now playing a role in what happens next.
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| Can John McCain memorials be a healing moment? Posted: 31 Aug 2018 11:51 AM PDT ![Can John McCain memorials be a healing moment?]( "Can John McCain memorials be a healing moment?") In his final years, John McCain became an increasingly polarizing figure. Most telling, perhaps, were the bitterly negative comments about McCain on social media, amid the praise. "There's a longing for a sense of coming together with purpose, and I think that's what John McCain symbolized," says Kirsten Fedewa, a Republican consultant who worked on presidential campaigns both for and against McCain.
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| Detroit battles tax penalties that create city of renters Posted: 31 Aug 2018 11:21 AM PDT ![Detroit battles tax penalties that create city of renters]( "Detroit battles tax penalties that create city of renters") Pearlie Mack was a homeowner for years, until a series of difficult-to-prevent disasters. First, an electrical fire left her West Side Detroit home in ashes in 1998. Last summer, a bright orange foreclosure notice was tacked on the front door of the house she rented.
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| Neutral no more: Can the Supreme Court survive an era of extreme partisanship? Posted: 31 Aug 2018 09:39 AM PDT ![Neutral no more: Can the Supreme Court survive an era of extreme partisanship?]( "Neutral no more: Can the Supreme Court survive an era of extreme partisanship?") On February 23, 1857, Supreme Court Justice Robert Cooper Grier (my multi-great granduncle) wrote President-elect James Buchanan one of the most infamous letters in the history of American jurisprudence. In it, Justice Grier outlined for the incoming US chief executive the decision reached by the court in Dred Scott v. Sandford, a case in which an African-American slave had sued for his freedom on the grounds that he had lived for years in regions of the country where slavery was illegal. Mr. Buchanan had been meddling in the case for some time.
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