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☆ Opinion: What could fall apart after Trump’s victory
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-28 | by ( Richard Galant | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +13 min

We’re looking back at the strongest, smartest opinion takes of the week from CNN and other outlets. CNN —In 2018, Irish journalist Fintan O’Toole proposed the “Yeats Test” to determine how bad things are in the world. Although … Haley is the last contender standing between former President Donald Trump and the Republican nomination…most Republican voters do not want an alternative to Trump; they overwhelmingly back him. Polling shows Trump even leads Haley in her home state of South Carolina.”Haley’s quest is going nowhere, wrote Daniel McCarthy. Join us on Twitter and FacebookTrump’s election-night needling of South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott, who endorsed the president over Haley, stood out.

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Jill Biden paid tribute to the power of poetry as she honored the 2023 class of National Student Poets on Monday at the White House, saying poetry “feeds our spirit." Political Cartoons View All 1244 ImagesThe poets receive scholarships and serve as literary ambassadors, bringing poetry to their communities through service projects, poetry readings, workshops and other opportunities. Jill Biden said she hoped the students would remember the experience of visiting the White House. She also hosted last year's class of National Student Poets. “And I hope you know that President Biden, the vice president, the second gentleman and I see you, we hear you, and we’re counting on you to keep going.

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☆ He Was Tortured During the Troubles. ‘They’re Trying to Kill Me.’ - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-08 | by ( Tom Besley | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Fifty-two years later, as a young man in 1971, Mr. Auld was one of 14 civilians accused of having links to the I.R.A. and tortured by the British forces in Northern Ireland. Another 52 years have since passed, and Mr. Auld is now an experienced falconer, a pursuit that has allowed him to find some measure of calm. In 1978, the European Court of Human Rights ruled that he and the other detainees — known as the Hooded Men — weren’t tortured. Mr. Auld continues to call for their full responsibility: “As human beings, we are better than this.”

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☆ Opinion | Promising Signs for Free Speech on Campus
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-16 | by ( David French | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

William Butler Yeats’s “The Second Coming” has been called the most plundered poem in the English language, and it’s easy to see why. “The best lack all conviction, while the worst / Are full of passionate intensity.”When I read these words, dramatic, violent events come first to mind. The Capitol insurrection on Jan. 6 is a prime example of the “passionate intensity” of one of the worst movements in American life. With each mass shooting, I think, “Things fall apart.”But there are other ways in which the center finds itself under siege. I’ve never interpreted the center in Yeats’s poem to mean something like a politically moderate middle but rather a moral foundation, the ideological core of a nation and its people.

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