| What does the Mueller report prove? Depends on who you ask Posted: 24 Apr 2019 02:54 PM PDT ![What does the Mueller report prove? Depends on who you ask]( "What does the Mueller report prove? Depends on who you ask") Dear readers: It was pretty much a given that special counsel Robert Mueller's account of his two-year investigation would be spun by partisans on both sides. Still, in the run-up to the report's release, there was hope that the meticulously documented, 448-page tome would finally provide us with at least a common set of facts. That it might stand as an impartial, evidence-based delineation of Trump campaign officials' awareness of and involvement in the Russian interference campaign during the 2016 election, as well as the president's subsequent efforts to impede the investigation. Nope. ...
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| Death penalty with dignity? Supreme Court reopens debate Posted: 24 Apr 2019 01:02 PM PDT ![Death penalty with dignity? Supreme Court reopens debate]( "Death penalty with dignity? Supreme Court reopens debate") "Which shows you what a knucklehead I was," says Dr. Maull, who was caught and convicted in 1985 and given the mandatory minimum sentence that altered his life. This aim to uphold the humanity and minimize the pain of those who have committed heinous acts is not a natural impulse for most people. But as a Buddhist spiritual adviser and a prisoners' rights activist who founded the National Prison Hospice Association while serving his sentence, Dr. Maull sees this goal as springing from an important principle. This year, as a newly constituted Supreme Court has begun to readdress capital punishment, the tension between the principle of human dignity and the practical needs of justice has come into focus in a way the United States has not seen for decades, experts say.
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| Not criminal, but not ethical either: Mueller reignites a political debate Posted: 24 Apr 2019 12:24 PM PDT ![Not criminal, but not ethical either: Mueller reignites a political debate]( "Not criminal, but not ethical either: Mueller reignites a political debate") The Mueller report is bringing questions of ethics and morality in government once again to the forefront of a vigorous public debate. Jammed with primary sources, special counsel Robert Mueller's 448-page journey into the inner workings of the Trump campaign and early presidency pops with detail: It is a tale of palace intrigue, deceit, and attempts to collaborate with a foreign power and hinder a federal investigation. The report lays bare copious contacts between Russians and Trump associates during the campaign, though it finds no criminal conspiracy.
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| She helps her fellow veterans sow seeds of peace and recovery Posted: 24 Apr 2019 11:30 AM PDT ![She helps her fellow veterans sow seeds of peace and recovery]( "She helps her fellow veterans sow seeds of peace and recovery") Ms. Creech is a former Air Force nurse and part of a growing effort across the United States to help veterans become farmers. This effort began a decade ago when a California farm manager named Michael O'Gorman assembled a small group of vets and started the Farmer Veteran Coalition. Ms. Creech has been both a beneficiary and a leader of this mobilization, a node in an expanding web of veteran farmers and would-be farmers.
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