
Dara Lind
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Aggressive action taken in response to tragedy might violate due process: a description of today’s news in guns, and in alligators.


A federal court upholds net neutrality; looking into Omar Mateen; everybody hates Donald (except Republican voters and Russia).


Gregory Rabassa, who died Tuesday, is probably the reason you’ve been able to read the works of Gabriel Garcia Marquez or Julio Cortazar.


From his Muslim ban to his attacks on the “Mexican” judge, Trump assumes you can’t be loyal to America and to your immigrant heritage.


A tragedy and its aftermath.


Over the last several years, Democrats have settled on a gun-control agenda that focuses on keeping “dangerous people” from having guns, rather than banning guns entirely.


“Devastating.” “Horrific.”


Apparently that’s Trump’s only idea for how to stop mass shootings.


Elizabeth Warren happens to be really good at one key VP skill; Gawker Media files for bankruptcy; Peru’s elections.


Obama misses chance to declare himself president for life; great news for chickens; humankind’s most mysterious, hobbitiest ancestor gets more mysterious and hobbitier.