| With new president's inauguration, leftist leadership comes back to Mexico Posted: 30 Nov 2018 11:49 AM PST ![With new president's inauguration, leftist leadership comes back to Mexico]( "With new president's inauguration, leftist leadership comes back to Mexico") Mexico has a long history of ties with the global political and intellectual left, from taking in exiled leftist politicians like Leon Trotsky to cozying up to Cuba during the cold war, or even dating back to its famous 1910 Revolution that overthrew dictator Porfirio Díaz. Andrés Manuel López Obrador, popularly known as AMLO, will be inaugurated as Mexico's 58th president and its first leftist leader since 1940.
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| Poland rediscovers EU values Posted: 30 Nov 2018 11:05 AM PST ![Poland rediscovers EU values]( "Poland rediscovers EU values") The closer Britain gets to leaving the European Union, the more people in other member states seem to remember why the EU exists. The latest example: Poland's governing party reversed itself last week and agreed to honor a core EU principle of judicial independence. It will now allow two dozen Supreme Court judges to return to work after forcing them into early retirement this year.
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| Is it safe for a black man to be the ‘good guy with a gun’? Posted: 30 Nov 2018 08:31 AM PST ![Is it safe for a black man to be the 'good guy with a gun'?]( "Is it safe for a black man to be the 'good guy with a gun'?") On Thanksgiving night, a shooter opened fire at the Riverchase Galleria mall in Hoover, Ala. Police killed one man. Recommended: Black gun owners ask: Does the Second Amendment apply to us? At a time when the president and guns rights activists have suggested that "good guys with guns" are a solution for stopping mass shooters, some black gun owners are wondering if "helping while black" is too dangerous.
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