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Virtue, Evil, and Ethics

"Virtues" are attitudes, dispositions, or character traits that enable us to be and to act in ways that develop this potential for the highest human good. They enable us to pursue the ideals we have adopted. Honesty, courage, compassion, generosity, fidelity, integrity, fairness, self-control, and prudence are all examples of virtues. The term ethics may refer to the philosophical study of the concepts of moral right and wrong.

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Trump Administration Censors CDC Measles Forecast

During Kennedy’s first week on the job, HHS halted the CDC campaign that encouraged people to get flu shots during a ferocious flu season. On the night that the Trump administration began firing probationary employees across the federal government, some key CDC flu webpages were taken down.

Little girl behind barbed wire fence.

Trump is pushing beyond the limits of immigration law and due process

Before he had a chance to explain, Noriega said, the officers placed him in handcuffs and moved him into a van. It wasn’t until after he’d already been taken to an ICE processing center and waited several hours that officers checked his wallet and realized he is a U.S. citizen.

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Guantánamo Exists to Evade the Rule of Law

Lawless cruelty isn’t new, but it can get worse. Trump’s plan to detain migrants follows a long history of the US locking up vulnerable people at the camp.

Security working to protect travelers from airport terrorism.

Trump Ending Protections Against Terrorism

Homeland Security cut around $20 million for more than two dozen programs from another wing of DHS, including efforts aimed at stopping terrorist attacks and school shooters.

Grumpy McGrumpface typing grumpy messages to his grumpy friends.

Terror on Telegram Social Media

White supremacists from around the world used Telegram to spread hateful content promoting murder and destruction in a community they called Terrorgram.

immigrants in a field

Protecting Rural Immigrants from ICE

Trump’s recent executive order allowing ICE into formerly protected spaces like hospitals and schools has reignited that trauma for many in the immigrant community.

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What a Borderland Church Taught Me About Belonging

I like to think it couldn’t have happened anywhere else but that tiny borderland church, the perfect embodiment of uncomfortable in-betweenness.

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