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Bill McKibben | Donald Trump Is Costing Us One Precious Thing: Time 
Bill McKibben. (photo: Wolfgang Schmidt)
Bill McKibben, Guardian UK
McKibben writes: "Donald Trump may be costing us many things: a sense of national decency, a stable global order, a generation of professional civil servants and diplomats. Or maybe not."
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Trump Threatens to End Trade With All G-7 Countries
Max Greenwood, The Hill
Greenwood writes: "President Trump exited the Group of Seven (G-7) summit on Saturday with a stark warning to some of Washington's closest allies: reduce trade barriers or face consequences."
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After His Family Was Separated at the Border, a Honduran Father Took His Own Life
Ryan Koronowski, ThinkProgress
Koronowski writes: "A Honduran father who was arrested and forcibly separated from his wife and child while trying to enter the United States, killed himself in a padded cell, according to a new report from the Washington Post."
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Inequality Has Been Growing in the US, and the Trump Administration Is Making It Much Worse
Lauren Carasik, Al Jazeera
Excerpt: "On June 1, Phillip Alston, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, released a report on the United States."
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Anthony Bourdain Used His Platform to Draw Attention to the Marginalized
Eugene Scott, The Washington Post
Scott writes: "Anthony Bourdain, who was found dead Friday in an apparent suicide, opened his viewers' eyes to issues within and beyond the borders of the United States through food."
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Torn From Their Families in the US, Salvadoran Deportees Return to a Gang-Ravaged Homeland
Nick Paton Walsh, Barbara Arvanitidis, Julia Gavarrete and Christian Streib, CNN
Excerpt: "They emerge blinking into the sun and tropical heat of a homeland some have not seen for over a decade."
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RIP Monsanto. Our Hates Will Go On.
Nathanael Johnson, Grist
Johnson writes: "Welp, this is the end of Monsanto. Not the end of the seed company, mind you, but the end of its name."
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