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Jonathan Chait | I'm a Peeliever and You Should Be, Too 
Former British intelligence officer Christopher Steele in London. The dossier contained explosive allegations about Trump and the Kremlin. (photo: Victoria Jones/PA)



Chait writes: "Trump has mixed his denials of the pee tape with obvious lies."
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James Comey on ABC News. (photo: ABC News)
James Comey on ABC News. (photo: ABC News)

7 Eye-Opening Comments Related to Russia From James Comey's ABC News Interview
Ryan Koronowski, ThinkProgress
Koronowski writes: "It's possible that Russian officials have collateral on President Donald Trump, former FBI Director James Comey said during an interview with ABC News' George Stephanopoulos."
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Protestors demonstrate outside the Center City Starbucks where two black men were arrested on Thursday. (photo: Mark Makela/Getty Images)
Protestors demonstrate outside the Center City Starbucks where two black men were arrested on Thursday. (photo: Mark Makela/Getty Images)

The Starbucks Arrests and the Toll of Routine Bias
Chas Danner, New York Magazine
Danner writes: "Over the weekend, a viral video showing the unwarranted arrests of two black men at a Philadelphia Starbucks led to protests and calls for a nationwide boycott of Starbucks."
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Washington Highlands. (photo: André Chung/Politico Magazine)
Washington Highlands. (photo: André Chung/Politico Magazine)

DC's Silent Gun Slaughter
Joanne Kenen, Politico
Kenen writes: "The country is talking about - and marching about - gun violence with an intensity not seen since Columbine, the Million Mom March, and the effort to tighten gun laws that narrowly failed in Congress in 1999. But the focus now is primarily on massacres in schools, often in affluent neighborhoods. In neighborhoods like this one, there's another kind of massacre, slow motion and ceaseless."
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Bans on conversion therapy are still coming with seemingly accelerated momentum. (image: Daily Beast)
Bans on conversion therapy are still coming with seemingly accelerated momentum. (image: Daily Beast)

LGBT 'Conversion Therapy' Is Dying a Quick Death Across America. Good.
Samantha Allen, The Daily Beast
Allen writes: "There is perhaps no other LGBT-related issue in the U.S. that has garnered such bipartisan levels of support. There's a broad consensus that conversion therapy is bad."
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Marielle Franco. (photo: Ellis Rua/AP)
Marielle Franco. (photo: Ellis Rua/AP)

Mourning 'Marielle,' Brazilian Women Push to Carry on Slain Activist's Legacy
Janet Tappin Coelho, The Christian Science Monitor
Tappin Coelho writes: "In the midst of persistently high violence that largely affects poor and black Brazilians, those like Carla Duarte who were rocked by Franco's death are now working to ensure her legacy is continued, from mentorship by established politicians to fighting to ensure Franco's murder is solved."
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Shipping. (photo: Getty Images)
Shipping. (photo: Getty Images)

Global Shipping in 'Historic' Climate Deal
David Shukman, BBC News
Shukman writes: "Shipping generates roughly the same quantity of greenhouse gas as Germany and, if it were accounted for as a nation, would rank as the world's sixth biggest emitter."
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