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Kareem Abdul-Jabbar | How We Can Really Make America Great 
Students raise their hands during lunch in the cafeteria at Hendron-Lone Oak Elementary in Kentucky. Aug. 6, 2015. (photo: Ellen O’Nan/AP)
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, The Washington Post
Abdul-Jabbar writes: "America’s most dangerous enemy is not terrorism, war or immigration. The greatest threat to our country is ignorance."
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Demonstrators rally in support for Obamacare. (photo: Getty)
Demonstrators rally in support for Obamacare. (photo: Getty)

The Trump Administration Believes Obamacare’s Preexisting Conditions Protections Are Now Unconstitutional
Dylan Scott, Vox
Scott writes: "Insurers could once again deny people coverage based on their medical history, undoing the law’s most popular provisions."
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Trump DOJ Seizes New York Times Reporter’s Phone, Email Records
David Lauter, Los Angeles Times
Lauter writes: "Federal law enforcement officials seized several years’ worth of email and phone records from a reporter who currently works for the New York Times, the paper reported Thursday."
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Customs and Border Protection officers. (photo: Getty)
Customs and Border Protection officers. (photo: Getty)

What Evil Looks Like
Jack Mirkinson, Splinter News
Mirkinson writes: "'Evil' is a word often used too liberally, but if knowingly subjecting small immigrant children to pain due to deliberate government policy does not fall under the definition of evil, I’m not sure what does."
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Pelosi: 'Medicare for All' Should Be 'Evaluated' if Democrats Win House
Peter Sullivan, The Hill
Sullivan writes: "Pelosi has long backed a public option for health insurance, but has not supported going further — as many Democrats want — and setting up government-run, universal health insurance."
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Colin Kaepernick’s Legal Team to Subpoena Trump and Pence in Case Against NFL
Mythili Sampathkumar, The Independent
Sampathkumar writes: "The quarterback alleges teams colluded not to sign him due to kneeling during the national anthem."
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Yellowstone Superintendent Dan Wenk speaks at an Aug. 17, 2017 event marking a conservation agreement for a former mining site just north of the park in Jardine, Mont. (photo: Matthew Brown/AP)
Yellowstone Superintendent Dan Wenk speaks at an Aug. 17, 2017 event marking a conservation agreement for a former mining site just north of the park in Jardine, Mont. (photo: Matthew Brown/AP)

Superintendent of Yellowstone National Park: Trump Officials Forced Me Out Over Wildlife Advocacy
Nate Hegyi, NPR
Hegyi writes: "The superintendent of Yellowstone National Park says he's being forced out of his job. Daniel Wenk was informed on Tuesday that the National Park Service will replace him this August."
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