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Can journalists and judges appear unbiased while describing U.S. residents being apprehended outside the legal system and held abroad in defiance of the Supreme Court? Word choices implicitly endorse ...
Congress enacted 42 tariff laws between 1789 and 1916. The Tariff Act of 1789 was three pages long. The Smoot-Hawley Act of 1930 (the last enacted tariff before Congress delegated tariff-setting ...
Pope Francis emerged from his convalescence on Easter Sunday to bless the thousands of people in St. Peter's Square and treat ...
The English language is a complicated beast. Often, it makes no sense at all to non-native speakers. And even those who grew up speaking English find it confusing when they hear the way Americans use ...