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[ad_1] Image by Getty and Unsplash+. As of June 1, 2026, Bolivian Indigenous and working people had been massively protesting for more than two months against repressive measures imposed by the government of conservative President Rodrigo Paz, in office since November 8, 2025. Bolivia’s Parliament eliminated taxation of the very wealthy. Paz’s Decree 5503, issued in December, ended longstanding fuel subsidies and instituted privatization measures. Subsequently, fuel prices skyrocketed. Poor-quality fuel damaged cars and trucks. His government enacted Law 1720 in April; it allowed small farmers’ land holdings to qualify as collateral for bank loans. Bankers and wealthy landowners would…

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[ad_1] Yet, while the two inscriptions frame the prisoners’ experience differently, they are not in opposition. The first articulates a moral absolute in which endurance is presumed and confession rendered as betrayal. The second unsettles this absolutism, bending its meaning by reintroducing the body and its pain into what was framed as an abstract ethical position. In doing so, it does not abandon the logic of resistance, but reworks it from within by insisting on the reality of pain.  Consequently, when read through this lens, summed cannot be understood as a singular, heroic stance, nor dismissed as a mere absence of…

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[ad_1] In August 2025, President Donald Trump deployed 800 National Guardsmen to Washington, D.C., as part of his plan for “restoring law and order” in the city. In the 10 months since, this number has ballooned to 2,673 troops. While crime in the city has dropped significantly, a new study from the Niskanen Center suggests that the city’s police department could have achieved the same result for far less money.  So far in 2026, D.C. has seen a 2 percent reduction in violent crime and a 25 percent reduction in property crime, according to the latest available data from the…

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[ad_1] The U.S. and its “Five Eyes” intelligence partners issued a joint statement Wednesday warning that Chinese military intelligence is using LinkedIn and other professional social media sites to recruit people with access to classified information and obtain it from them. The notice was drafted by the FBI, Britain’s MI5 and the domestic intelligence agencies of Australia, Canada, and New Zealand. It is the group’s first joint public warning on the issue. The heads of Five Eyes had previously issued a joint statement on the issue of intellectual property theft in October 2023. Subscribe Today Get daily emails…

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[ad_1] Thomas Jefferson’s official presidential portrait, painted around 1800 by Rembrandt Peale.White House History via Wikimedia Commons Thousands of Americans prayed on the National Mall on May 17, 2026, during “Rededicate 250”: a day-long rally to “come together in prayer and worship ahead of the nation’s 250th birthday,” as organizers described it. U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson, one of many Republican politicians and conservative Christian leaders to speak, led a prayer to “rededicate the United States of America as one nation under God.” Planned by Freedom 250, a public-private partnership, the rally prompted criticism that it blurred the lines separating…

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[ad_1] A ceasefire framework for Lebanon, brokered by the U.S. and agreed to on Wednesday by Israel and the Lebanese government, was rejected by the militant group Hezbollah as a ceasefire to the Iran War entered its 58th day on Thursday. Tehran has insisted that a ceasefire to the U.S.–Iran war cover the entire region, including the Lebanese front. Speaking at the Haifa Naval Base on Wednesday before the truce was announced, IDF Chief of Staff Eyal Zamir said there was “no ceasefire for our forces” in Lebanon, adding that “we are working to maximize the freedom of action that…

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