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28 May 18 AM It's Live on the HomePage Now:   Reader Supported News WHO CAN DONATE? - We need 400 donations to kill this fundraiser. We need a few donors. Can you do it? Thank you. / Marc Ash, Founder Reader Supported News Sure, I'll make a donation! Juan Cole | Trump's Massive Mission Creep in Syria  Juan Cole, Informed Comment Cole writes: "The US is warning Syria against attempting to recover lands lost to rebels south of Damascus." READ MORE A child in detention at the U.S./Mexico border. (photo: Getty Images) US Lost Track of 1,500 Immigrant Children, but Says It's Not 'Legally Responsible' Dakin Andone, CNN Andone writes: "The federal government has placed thousands of unaccompanied immigrant children in the homes of sponsors, but last year it couldn't account for nearly 1,500 of them." READ MORE Tonya Johnson trying to remove a swastika that was spray-painted on a headstone at Sunset Hill Memor...

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12 April 18 AM It's Live on the HomePage Now: Reader Supported News A PUZZLING - BUT VERY REAL - FUNDING CRISIS: We don’t know who you are because we do not track our community members. But you are here and you are the first group in the history of Reader Supported News to refuse to help with funding. It will not last. For those of you who choose not to contribute, please look elsewhere. For those who are serious about Reader Supported News, please take the funding appeals more seriously. If we say we need ‘$X’ to finish, then that’s what we need. / Marc Ash, Founder Reader Supported News Sure, I'll make a donation! Kathleen Parker | We've Seen This Movie Before. It Ended With Impeachment.  Kathleen Parker, The Washington Post Parker writes: "It would seem but a matter of time before the president of the United States is asked a question under oath and gives a false answer. A lie, in other words. In the prequel, starring Bill Clinton, impeachment followe...

Trump gets schooled in Syria on how much his words matter Trump vows a 'big price to pay' following apparent chemical attack in Syria BY JAMES HOHMANN with Breanne Deppisch and Joanie Greve THE BIG IDEA: Those who don’t learn from the mistakes of the past are doomed to repeat them. That’s what the United States keeps doing in Syria. In 1950, Secretary of State Dean Acheson gave a  speech  implying that the Korean Peninsula was outside of the core defense perimeter of the United States. Though not intended, this sent  a signal  that America was abandoning South Korea. That helped provoke a war we’re still dealing with the fallout from today. Barack Obama made one of  the gravest blunders  of his presidency when he declared in 2012 that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad using chemical weapons against civilians would cross  a “red line”  and bring “enormous consequences.” When hundreds were killed by a gas attack the next ...