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Ta-Nehisi Coates | We Should Have Seen Trump Coming 
Posters of Barack Obama dressed as Superman. (photo: Guardian UK)
Ta-Nehisi Coates, Guardian UK
Coates writes: "I have often wondered how I missed the coming tragedy. It is not so much that I should have predicted that Americans would elect Donald Trump. It's just that I shouldn't have put it past us."
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Gunman Kills at Least 50 at Las Vegas Concert in Deadliest Mass Shooting in US History
Tom Sykes, The Daily Beast
Sykes writes: "Fifty people have been killed in America's deadliest mass shooting after a single gunman positioned on the 32nd floor of a Las Vegas hotel opened fire on a crowd of 22,000 music fans attending a country-music festival shortly after 10 p.m. Sunday night local time."
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Trump Contradicts Tillerson on North Korea, the Latest in a Series of Put-Downs
Karen DeYoung, The Washington Post
DeYoung writes: "President Trump, not for the first time, publicly contradicted his chief diplomat on a major foreign policy issue Sunday, saying via Twitter that Secretary of State Rex Tillerson was 'wasting his time trying to negotiate with Little Rocket Man.'"
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Socialized Medicine Has Won the Health Care Debate
Sarah Jaffe, The New Republic
Jaffe writes: "Lindsey Graham and the Republicans tried to use the 'S-word' to scare Americans about health care. It doesn't work anymore."
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Trump Is Making Canada Great Again
Richard Florida and Joshua Gans, Politico
Excerpt: "While America turns inward, another country stands to benefit: Canada."
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UN Takes First Concrete Step to Hold Israel Accountable for Violating Palestinian Human Rights
About Palestinian BDS National Committee, Mondo Weiss
Excerpt: "Today's media reports revealed that the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights began sending letters two weeks ago to 150 companies in Israel and around the globe, warning them that they could be added to a database of complicit companies doing business in illegal Israeli settlements based in the occupied Palestinian West Bank, including East Jerusalem."
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Where Romulus Suckled, Wolves Roam Again
Nick Squires, The Christian Science Monitor
Squires writes: "Nearly 3,000 years after Romulus killed his brother and became the first king of Rome, wild wolves are back. A small pack has been discovered living in the countryside just outside the city's busy six-lane ring road and not far from Leonardo da Vinci International Airport."
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Here's How to Support Puerto Rico as It Recovers From Devastating Hurricane Maria
Remezcla
Excerpt: "With the island expected to go without power for months, Puerto Rico now needs our help. The US territory is in the midst of a financial crisis and already struggling in many ways."
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