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Matt Taibbi | A Brief History of Everything That Happened Because of George H.W. Bush's Insecurity 
President George H.W. Bush. (photo: MPI/Getty Images)
Matt Taibbi, Rolling Stone
Taibbi writes: "He was called a wimp. He overcompensated. People went to jail and died."
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Nick Ayers, left, has decided to return home to Georgia instead of replacing John F. Kelly, right, as President Trump's chief of staff. (photo: Jonathan Ernst/Reuters)
Nick Ayers, left, has decided to return home to Georgia instead of replacing John F. Kelly, right, as President Trump's chief of staff. (photo: Jonathan Ernst/Reuters)

Pence Aide Nick Ayers Turns Down Chief of Staff Role
Martin Pengelly, Guardian UK
Pengelly writes: "Donald Trump's first choice to replace John Kelly as White House chief of staff has said he will not take the role, creating fresh uncertainty in the top tier of the Trump administration."
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Protestors carry a sign reading 'Justice for E.J.' during a protest at the Riverchase Galleria in Hoover, Ala. A police shot and killed 21-year-old Emantic Fitzgerald Bradford, Jr. of Hueytown while responding to a shooting at the mall on Thanksgiving evening, 2018. (photo: Kim Chandler/AP/Shutterstock)
Protestors carry a sign reading 'Justice for E.J.' during a protest at the Riverchase Galleria in Hoover, Ala. A police shot and killed 21-year-old Emantic Fitzgerald Bradford, Jr. of Hueytown while responding to a shooting at the mall on Thanksgiving evening, 2018. (photo: Kim Chandler/AP/Shutterstock)

Jamil Smith | The 'Good Guy With the Gun' Is Never Black
Jamil Smith, Rolling Stone
Smith writes: "The deaths of Emantic Bradford and Jemel Roberson remind us who the Second Amendment protects."
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Two women attend a vigil in Boca Raton, Florida, on 16 February for the 17 people killed at a school shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas high school. (photo: Joe Raedle/Getty Images)
Two women attend a vigil in Boca Raton, Florida, on 16 February for the 17 people killed at a school shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas high school. (photo: Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

2018 Is Worst Year on Record for Gun Violence in Schools, Data Shows
Jamiles Lartey, Guardian UK
Lartey writes: "This year has been by far the worst on record for gun violence in schools, the advocacy group Sandy Hook Promise said, citing research by the US Naval Postgraduate School (NPS)."
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School officials in Cranston, Rhode Island are getting aggressive in seeking payment from parents in arrears for their kids' meals. (photo: Getty Images)
School officials in Cranston, Rhode Island are getting aggressive in seeking payment from parents in arrears for their kids' meals. (photo: Getty Images)

Town Hires Debt Collector to Get Families to Pay for School Lunches
Sam Fulwood III, ThinkProgress
Fulwood writes: "School officials in Cranston, Rhode Island, are getting aggressive in seeking payment from parents in arrears for their kids' meals."
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Eman Al Nafjan was arrested in May 2018 and accused of threatening Saudi Arabia's national security. (image: Jawahir Al-Naimi/Al Jazeera)
Eman Al Nafjan was arrested in May 2018 and accused of threatening Saudi Arabia's national security. (image: Jawahir Al-Naimi/Al Jazeera)

What It Means to Be a Women's Rights Activist in Saudi Arabia
Omaima Al Najjar, Al Jazeera
Al Najjar writes: "Activists like Eman Al Nafjan fought fearlessly for women's rights in Saudi Arabia, only to be brutally silenced."
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The Sidney Coal Co.'s coal preparation plant in Sidney, Ky., in 2006. (photo: Brian Tietz/AP)
The Sidney Coal Co.'s coal preparation plant in Sidney, Ky., in 2006. (photo: Brian Tietz/AP)

Trump's Pursuit of 'American Energy Dominance' Threatens the Entire Planet
Antonia Juhasz, The Los Angeles Times
Juhasz writes: "President Trump upended decades of U.S. policy that started with Richard Nixon when he declared that the goal of the United States was no longer 'energy independence' but rather 'American energy dominance.'"
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