Master Sgt. Matthew Alan Livelsberger was clearly shaken by what he saw in Afghanistan. In the last few days of his life, the Special Forces soldier wrote in a note released by authorities, “Why did I personally do it now? I needed to cleanse my mind of the brothers I’ve lost and relieve myself of the burden of the lives I took.” Livelsberger was found dead after his rental car, filled with fireworks and gas canisters, exploded in […]

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Cabaret begins with the Kit Kat Klub’s flamboyant master of ceremonies enticing the audience to leave their worries outside: “Life is disappointing? Forget it!” It ends with the same character—an unforgettably haunting performance by Eddie Redmayne when I saw the show this past summer, though Adam Lambert took over the role in October—donning a boxy suit and attempting to blend into a world where drawing attention to yourself in certain ways is no longer safe. That’s the real tragedy […]

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In FY 2024, the U.S. resettled 100,034 refugees—the highest number in 30 years and about nine times the number resettled in FY 2021. The 2024 tally is a reason to celebrate and a reminder that refugee resettlement is highly subject to presidential whims. America’s modern refugee resettlement system was established in 1980. The U.S. legally defines a refugee as someone who is living outside of his home country and can’t or won’t return to that country because of previous or potential persecution based on certain […]

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O Supremo Tribunal Federal (STF) teve em 2024 um recorde das arguições de impedimento — quando se tenta tirar um ministro da relatoria de um processo. Segundo apuração do jornal O Globo, foram apresentados 107 pedidos, mais do que em toda a história da Corte (entre 2007 e 2022 foram protocoladas 63 ações desse tipo no total). O principal alvo das solicitações foi o ministro Alexandre de Moraes. Dos 107 pedidos, 103 (ou seja, 96%) foram contra o […]

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