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The Conversation

Fentanyl: An Explanation

November 16, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

Only a small amount of fentanyl is enough to be lethal.

Buying drugs on the street is a game of Russian roulette. From Xanax to cocaine, drugs or counterfeit pills purchased in nonmedical settings may contain life-threatening amounts of fentanyl. Fentanyl is a synthetic opioid that was originally developed as an analgesic – or painkiller – for surgery.

The Problem with Offshore Wind Farms

November 15, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 14 Comments

A row of monopiles that will be the base for offshore wind turbines, in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Martha’s Vineyard, Mass.

In a recent report, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine examined whether and how constructing offshore wind farms in the Nantucket Shoals region, southeast of Massachusetts, could affect critically endangered North Atlantic right whales. Marine scientists weigh in.

Dolphins and Manatees Are Getting Poisoned in Miami’s Biscayne Bay

November 14, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

Canals carry PFAS into Miami’s Biscayne Bay.

PFAS, the “forever chemicals” that have been raising health concerns across the country, are not just a problem in drinking water. As these chemicals leach out of failing septic systems and landfills and wash off airport runways and farm fields, they can end up in streams that ultimately discharge into ocean ecosystems where fish, dolphins, manatees, sharks and other marine species live.

What Jail Conditions and Deaths Tell us

November 13, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 19 Comments

Since Jan. 1, 2023, 10 inmates have died at Fulton County Jail.

Jails are locally managed, and the majority of their populations are being detained pretrial while unconvicted. Data on how many people die while incarcerated is notoriously inaccessible and often unreliable. Relatively high turnover rates, we found, were associated with higher death rates overall, as well as due to suicide, drugs and alcohol, and homicide.

Government Shutdown, Chapter DCCLXV*

November 12, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 11 Comments

When Democrats and Republicans fight, do Americans win?

Much of the news coverage of the discussions and negotiations aimed at averting a government shutdown on Nov. 17, 2023, relies on pundits and their unnamed sources, on leaks, speculation, wishful thinking and maybe even the reading of tea leaves. It’s not about to get better.

2030 Clutter Odyssey: 1 Million Satellites in Space?

November 11, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

Debris plot by NASA. A computer-generated image of objects in Earth orbit that are currently being tracked. Approximately 95% of the objects in this illustration are orbital debris, i.e., not functional satellites. The dots represent the current location of each item. The orbital debris dots are scaled according to the image size of the graphic to optimize their visibility and are not scaled to Earth. The image provides a good visualization of where the greatest orbital debris populations exist. This image is generated from a distant oblique vantage point to provide a good view of the object population in the geosynchronous region (around 35,785 km altitude). Note the larger population of objects over the northern hemisphere is due mostly to Russian objects in high-inclination, high-eccentricity orbits.

There are currently only about 8,000 active satellites in orbit. But In September 2021, Rwanda announced that it was planning to launch over 300,000 satellites. Three months later, a Canadian company, having previously launched two dozen CubeSats, said it would launch an additional 100,000. Then, a French company did likewise. And SpaceX, which has already launched around 5,000 satellites, now has plans for over 60,000 more. What’s going on?

More Than One Journalist per Day Is Getting Killed in Gaza

November 10, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

Pictures of Sameeh Nadi and Esam Bashar in mock coffins representing Palestinian journalists killed during the war in Gaza, Ramallah, West Bank, November 7 2023. Nasser Nasser/AAP

At least 39 journalists and media workers had been killed in the month since the war began, the deadliest conflict for media workers since the Committee to Protect Journalists began keeping records in 1992. The victims are mostly Palestinian journalists and media workers killed in Israel’s attacks on Gaza, but they include four Israelis, whom Hamas murdered in its initial cross-border raid on October 7, and one Beirut-based videographer killed in south Lebanon.

Abortion Rights Won’t Fade in 2024 Election

November 9, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 7 Comments

Abortion rights supporters celebrate Issue 1 passing in Ohio on Nov. 7.

Three reasons why: Votes amending state constitutions are key to protecting abortion rights. Reframing abortion restrictions does not fool voters. Abortion rights matter up and down the ballot. In sum, abortion increasingly matters to voters. And most voters do not want laws severely restricting abortion and other kinds of reproductive health care.

Is Mormon Church Defrauding Members?

November 8, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 5 Comments

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A lawsuit against the LDS church and Ensign Peak, filed on Oct. 31, is based on the premise that the church has violated its members’ trust by amassing massive investments in stocks, bonds, real estate and agriculture that don’t support charitable activities.

What Is Intersectionality?

November 7, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

Civil rights advocate and legal scholar Kimberle Crenshaw speaks in New York City on Feb. 7, 2015.

Intersectionality, the social theory, has a complex history and refers to the intertwining of different identities, such as class, gender and age. It is often applied as a way to understand how individuals may experience multiple forms of prejudice simultaneously. The theory assumes that meanings associated with one identity are insufficient to explain the experiences associated with multiple, coexisting identities.

Should Domestic Abusers Have Access to Guns?

November 6, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 10 Comments

Will the federal law prohibiting the possession of firearms by someone subject to a domestic violence restraining order survive

The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday hears arguments in a case that will decide whether courts should, as is the case in Florida, have the authority to take away the guns of people who are under a domestic violence protective order, which aims to shield victims from their abusers.

Daylight Saving Time Is More Dangerous Than Beneficial

November 5, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

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The empirical evidence for the intended benefits of daylight saving time are mixed at best, whereas the costs of the switch to daylight saving time are becoming increasingly evident. The American public has had a love-hate relationship with daylight saving time since it first became law in 1918.

On Campus, a Challenging Time for Free Speech and Empathy

November 4, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

Students at UMass Amherst march across campus following a walkout and rally protesting the university’s “ties with war profiteers,” while also calling for “a ceasefire and end of the blockade on Gaza.”

College and university campuses across the U.S. have seen polarization and unrest since the Israel-Hamas war began with the Hamas attack on Israeli civilians on Oct. 7, 2023. Students and faculty have held protests and rallies, argued on social media and signed statements, some of which have increased mistrust and turmoil on campus.

In Gaza, Children Are the Ultimate Pawns and Victims

November 3, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 11 Comments

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Hamas militants killed approximately 30 Israeli children when they attacked civilians on Oct. 7, 2023, killing more than 1,400 people altogether. At least 20 Israeli children remain hostage in Gaza. Since Oct. 7, Israeli airstrikes have killed more than 2,000 Palestinian children and more than 8,000 people overall, according to the Hamas-run Ministry of Health in Gaza.

Kristallnacht, 85 Years Ago: Hitler’s Anti-Semitic Turning Point

November 2, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

The Boerneplatz synagogue in flames on Nov. 10, 1938, during the ‘Night of Broken Glass’ in Frankfurt, Germany.

Kristallnacht–the Night of Broken Glass–was the logical culmination of Hitler’s malevolent intentions going back many years before 1938. Seeing it that way allows us to view the two different kinds of antisemitism in Hitler’s thinking, one involving emotions and the other involving the law and reason. The latter foreshadowed the mass shooting squads and death camps of the early 1940s.

The Fascist Tradition Behind Trump’s Increasingly Violent Rhetoric

November 1, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 18 Comments

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Former President Donald Trump’s rhetoric has regularly bordered on the incitement of violence. Lately, however, it has become even more violent. Yet both the press and the public have largely just shrugged their shoulders. This rhetoric may seem like crazy bluster. But put in its historical context, what Trump is doing is echoing views that are part of a long tradition of outright fascist thought. For fascists have always seen the use of violence as a virtue, not a vice.

How Bach’s Toccata and Fugue in D Minor Became Halloween’s Theme Song

October 31, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

In Bach’s era, the pipe organ was one of the world’s most technologically advanced instruments.

Johann Sebastian Bach’s Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 565, is an organ work composed in the early 18th century. Most people today recognize it as a sonic icon of a certain type of fear: haunting and archaic, the kind of thing likely to be manufactured by someone – a ghost, perhaps – wearing a tuxedo and lurking in an abandoned mansion.

Why Some People Equate Criticism of Israel with Anti-Semitism

October 30, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

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Many Jews are still grieving, shocked and traumatized by what happened on Oct. 7. But other people, in the U.S. and around the world, have already moved on from Oct. 7, and they are much more concerned about the war that Israel is now waging against Hamas and the devastating impact it is having on Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.

‘In God We Trust’ Tests Limits of Religion in Public Schools

October 29, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 6 Comments

Courts have held that reciting the pledge in schools is constitutional.

Louisiana passed a law in August 2023 requiring public schools to post “In God We Trust” in every classroom – from elementary school to college. Even under recent Supreme Court precedents, the Louisiana law may violate the establishment clause of the First Amendment, which prohibits the government from promoting religion.

Israel’s Gaza Campaign Risks Replicating U.S. in Iraq

October 28, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

Armored Israeli military vehicles maneuver near Israel’s border with Gaza.

The conflict will likely resemble heavy urban fighting similar to other battles over the past 20 years elsewhere in the Middle East against Iraqi militants and the Islamic State group – and very different from the more limited engagements Israel has attempted in Gaza up until now.

Solar Power Is Expected to Dominate Electricity Production By 2050

October 27, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

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The authors’ projections suggest that the average cost of generating electricity through solar energy will decrease substantially, by 60% from 2020 to 2050, even when factoring in the growing demand for energy storage. Should these forecasts prove accurate, solar energy combined with storage is expected to become the cheapest option for generating electricity in nearly all regions worldwide by 2030.

The Disinformation Behind Islamophobia and Anti-Palestinian Racism

October 26, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 6 Comments

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Since 9/11, two billion Muslims globally have faced collective punishment. Constructed as folk devils who imperil western societies, Muslims have been framed as inextricably linked with the support and promotion of violence. When these racist narratives are espoused by politicians, they falsely equate the support of Palestinian people with support for terrorism and instill fear and moral panic about the Muslim presence in this country and elsewhere.

Far Left Retreads Anti-Semitism Fueled by Far-Right

October 25, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 9 Comments

An Oct. 19, 2023, rally in New York City’s Times Square demanding the freeing of hostages taken in the Oct. 7 attack by Hamas.

Traditionally, antisemitism in the United States was promoted by far-right organizations and movements, such as the Ku Klux Klan, neo-Nazi groups and skinheads. More recently, progressive and left-leaning movements that are critical of Israel’s policies – especially with regard to the Palestinian population in the territories occupied by Israel in 1967 – have become linked to antisemitic practices.

Does Early Internet Hold Clue to Fix Social Media’s Crisis of Legitimacy?

October 24, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

Content moderators like these workers make decisions about online communities based on company dictates.

Why should a few companies – or a few billionaire owners – have the power to decide everything about online spaces that billions of people use? This unaccountable model of governance has led stakeholders of all stripes to criticize platforms’ decisions as arbitrary, corrupt or irresponsible. In the early, pre-web days of the social internet, decisions about the spaces people gathered in online were often made by members of the community.

I Once Lived on Kibbutz Re’im: Daily Life in Gaza is Brutal

October 23, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 10 Comments

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In the summer of 2010, the author went to volunteer on Kibbutz Re’im, close to the Gaza border, to both strengthen her relationship to Israel as a North American Jewish woman and learn about socialist communities. Then she went to the Gaza border.

How Generative AI Threatens $68 Billion SEO Industry

October 22, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

Search engines are expected to increasingly incorporate generative AI.

Google, Microsoft and others boast that generative artificial intelligence tools like ChatGPT will make searching the internet better than ever for users. Rather than getting a list of links, both organic and paid, based on whatever keywords or questions a user types in, generative AI will instead simply give you a text result in the form of an answer. But it may destroy the US$68 billion search engine optimization industry that companies like Google helped create.

The Hezbollah Threat to Israel–and Lebanon

October 21, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 8 Comments

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Lebanon, which is teetering on the edge of economic and political collapse, risks becoming entangled in the escalating war between Israel and Hamas. Hezbollah has launched multiple attacks on Israeli targets from Lebanon, prompting return fire from the Israel Defense Forces. Over a dozen people have died, mostly Hezbollah fighters but also at least a few civilians on both sides of the border, including a Reuters photojournalist.

The Link Between Morbid Curiosity and Conspiracy Theories

October 20, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

Conspiracy theorists and anti-vax activists generally run in, or are, the same circles. (Fibonacci Blue)

From blood-harvesting Satanists who stealthily run the world to shapeshifting alien lizards invading the world, conspiracy theories often offer alternative explanations of unsettling events. They all centre on a proposal that a malicious group of people is behind strange or political happenings. Conspiracy theories have another thing in common – they go against mainstream explanations and lack concrete evidence.

Union Power: Health Care Workers Win

October 19, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

Striking Kaiser Permanente workers hold signs as they march on Oct. 6, 2023, in Vallejo, Calif.

The Coalition of Kaiser Permanente Unions reached a tentative agreement with its employer on a new four-year contract on Oct. 13, 2023. They agreed following the largest documented strike of U.S. health care workers on record, which involved more than 75,000 workers in several states and the District of Columbia.

The Disturbing Jingoism of Amish Tourist Towns

October 18, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 7 Comments

Gift items for sale in Walnut Creek, Ohio, in May 2023.

The shops that line the main streets of supposedly peace-loving Amish towns like Berlin, Sugarcreek and Walnut Creek sell a plethora of items that feature Christian nationalist motifs, intense patriotism and ominous suggestions of violence – all antithetical to the core values of the Amish.

Gaza Has Been Under Siege for Decades. Its Health System Is in Critical Condition.

October 17, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 17 Comments

A health service on its knees.

For the wounded, injured and sick in Gaza, there is seemingly no escape. On Oct. 17, 2023, news broke that at least 500 patients, staff and people seeking shelter from Israeli bombs had been killed in an explosion at a hospital, according to health authorities in the Hamas-run enclave. It amounts to a devastating loss of life during a campaign of bombing that has not spared the frail or sick.

Revenge Is Poor Strategy. Israel Needs Only Ask the U.S.

October 16, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 11 Comments

Israeli tanks gather near the border with the Gaza Strip on Oct. 13, 2023.

In the wake of the 9/11 terrorist attacks by al-Qaida on the United States, President George W. Bush made an expansive pledge to end terrorism. It didn’t work out so well. As Israel pursues its response to the Hamas attack, the Israeli government would be well advised to remember the past two decades of often indecisive warfare conducted by both the United States and Israel against insurgent and terrorist groups.

Laws of Combat in the Latest Palestine-Israel War

October 15, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 12 Comments

Warring parties are duty-bound to minimize civilian casualties.

The killing of Israeli civilians by Hamas and retaliatory airstrikes on the densely populated Gaza Strip by Israel raises numerous issues under international law. President Joe Biden said that that while democracies like the U.S. and Israel uphold such standards, “terrorists” such as Hamas “purposefully target civilians.” But the European Union’s top diplomat said that Israel was not acting in accordance with international law by cutting water, electricity and food to civilians in Gaza.

Strength Training Is Your Hedge Against Steep Physical Decline in Old Age

October 14, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

Resistance training can take many forms and can be individualized to suit a person’s needs as they age.

Prioritizing physical fitness and health as you get older can help you go through your normal day-to-day routine without feeling physically exhausted at the end of the day. It can also help you continue to have special memories with your family and loved ones that you might not have been able to have if you weren’t physically active.

Gaza’s Desperation

October 13, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 30 Comments

Palestinian children play outside an UNRWA school following Israeli airstrikes on Oct. 12, 2023.

International aid groups now face the same problem in Gaza that local businesses and residents have encountered for about 16 years: a blockade that prevents civilians and items, like medicine from easily moving into or out of the enclosed area, roughly 25 miles long. That 16-year blockade did not apply to the food and fuel that groups brought in to Gaza. Now, it does.

Banning Supervised Drug Injection Sites for Addicts Does More Harm Than Good

October 12, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

A registered nurse treats Dominic Rodriguez for a skin injury related to xylazine use in Philadelphia in May 2023. Treatment vans are allowed in the city, but not supervised injection sites.

While much of the political discourse surrounding the ban of supervised injection sites has focused on protecting neighborhoods where drug activity happens in parks and on the streets, ample evidence suggests that banning supervised injection sites may instead jeopardize the people and communities the policy was intended to protect.

Claudia Goldin’s Nobel Prize

October 11, 2023 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

The world’s newest Nobel laureate takes a bow.

The Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics has been awarded to 90 men since 1969 and just three women. The third woman to win the prize, distinguished Harvard labor economist Claudia Goldin, was honored on Oct. 9, 2023, for her decades of work studying the gender pay gap. It wasn’t a victory just for her but for women in the field.

Eyeless in Gaza: A Key to Understanding This War

October 10, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 20 Comments

Destruction from the latest siege of Gaza.

How did Gaza become one of the most densely populated parts of the planet? And why is it the home to militant Palestinian action now? Understanding the answers to those questions provides crucial historical context to the current violence.

Israel-Hamas War: No Matter Who Loses, Iran Wins

October 9, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 11 Comments

Israelis inspect the rubble of a building in Tel Aviv on Oct. 8, 2023, a day after it was hit by a rocket fired from the Gaza Strip.

Analysts are suggesting that Tehran’s fingerprints can be seen on the surprise attack on Israel. At the very least, Iran’s leaders have reacted to the assault with encouragement and support.

Branson, Missouri’s Lesson to Live Theater ‘In Crisis’

October 8, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

‘The Shepherd of the Hills’ has been running for 63 years and is the most performed outdoor drama in the U.S.

American live theater, especially regional, non-profit theater, is on the verge of collapse. One place to look for ideas is the tourist town of Branson, Missouri. Scholars and theater critics have ignored this mecca of live entertainment that attracts millions of people a year, largely because of its reputation for cheesy performances and political conservatism.

Serenity Now: Meet Jon Fosse, Winner of the 2023 Nobel Prize in Literature

October 7, 2023 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

Jon Fosse. (Wikimedia Commons)

Despite having been in the running for the award for a number of years, Fosse, as with several other 21st century European laureates like Elfriede Jelinek and the controversial Peter Handke, is still largely unknown in the English-speaking world. Fosse’s massive literary oeuvre includes roughly 40 plays as well as novels, poetry collections, essays, children’s books and translations.

Narges Mohammadi Wins the Nobel Peace Prize on Behalf of Millions of Iranian Women

October 6, 2023 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

Jailed Iranian activist Narges Mohammadi won the Nobel Peace Prize. (Wikimedia Commons)

Prominent Iranian women’s rights advocate Narges Mohammadi has won the 2023 Nobel peace prize for her long fight against the oppression of women in Iran. Mohammadi is serving multiple prison sentences in Evin prison in Tehran on charges which include spreading propaganda against the state.

The Supreme Court Is Privileging Christians Ahead of Others’ Dignity

October 5, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

Supporters of web designer Lorie Smith, the owner of 303 Creative, demonstrate in front of the U.S. Supreme Court on Dec. 5, 2022.

On issues where the Christian right’s First Amendment claims directly threaten the equal citizenship of sexual minorities, the court leaves no question about which side it’s on, privileging Christians over all others.

If You Think the House Is Fractured, Look at America

October 4, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 29 Comments

Kevin McCarthy, just before he was ousted as speaker of the House.

The House of Representatives did something that had never been done before in the nation’s history: It ousted the speaker of the House. Kevin McCarthy, a California Republican, lost his job in a vote of 216 to 210. Charles R. Hunt of Boise State University’s School of Public Servic offers a sense of what this historic development might mean for the government at the moment, as well as for American democracy over the longer term.

Where the Supreme Court Stands on Banning Books

October 3, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

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Until the U.S. Supreme Court takes up a newer case, the lower courts will look to existing precedent, set in a legal ruling that dates back to 1982. In that ruling, the court declared that school personnel have a lot of discretion related to the content of their libraries, but this “discretion may not be exercised in a narrowly partisan or political manner.”

The Covid Vaccine Wins the Nobel in Medicine

October 2, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 5 Comments

A notorious Flagler County anti-vaxxer. (© FlaglerLive)

The Covid vaccines would not have been possible it if weren’t for the pioneering work of this year’s winners of the Nobel prize in physiology or medicine decades earlier: Dr Katalin Karikó and Dr Drew Weissman, researchers from the University of Pennsylvania, for their discoveries into mRNA biology. The pair were the first to discover a way of modifying mRNA that allowed it to successfully be delivered to cells and replicated by them.

Food Poisoning: What and Where to Never Eat

October 1, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

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An estimated 1 in 6 Americans (or 48 million people) get sick, 128,000 are hospitalized, and 3,000 die from foodborne diseases every year. A microbiologist outlines what to look for and what to avoid to not end up poisoned.

America’s Way Too-Senior Moments

September 30, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

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The world’s oldest democracy currently has its oldest-ever Congress. President Joe Biden (80 years old) is also the oldest US president in history. His leading rival in the 2024 presidential race, former President Donald Trump, is not far behind at 77. They’re both older than 96% of the US population. Ron DeSantis thinks the founders would have had a maximum age limits on elected officials if they “could look at this again.” But why didn’t they?

France’s Wrong-Headed Ban of the Abaya in Public Schools

September 29, 2023 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

Residents watch French air force jets fly over a Paris suburb during the Bastille Day military parade on July 14, 2023.

Many critics argue that the abaya is a cultural garment, not a religious one, and should be allowed under laïcité. In practice, though, anything associated with Muslim cultures tends to be considered “religious.” Catholic traditions, meanwhile, are often considered “cultural” – and therefore compatible with laïcité.

GOP’s Shutdown Threat Is the Wrong Way to Win a Budget War

September 28, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 5 Comments

Past as prologue: October could bring yet another government shutdown.

History shows that shutdowns are counterproductive – at least as measured by their own defenders’ goals. Fortunately, the past also provides a proven way to reduce the deficit, a laudable goal. But now is the wrong time for Republicans to take a stand on reducing the deficit, not least because shutdowns don’t get results.

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