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America’s slow-motion coup speeds up: Tough lessons of the Kimmel affair

America’s slow-motion coup speeds up: Tough lessons of the Kimmel affair

It appears that Americans required a second and even more brutal lesson than the one delivered during Donald Trump’s first term: Democracy does not come with guarantees, and requires not just the consent of the governed but also their active participation. Its so-called institutions, among them our nation’s increasingly threadbare 18th-century Constitution, are visibly crumbling, as if eaten away from …

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Hurricane Katrina in photos, 20 years after the “slow-motion catastrophe”

Hurricane Katrina in photos, 20 years after the “slow-motion catastrophe”

Hurricane Katrina was described as “a slow-motion catastrophe” on “60 Minutes” on Sept. 4, 2005, six days after slamming the Gulf Coast. Twenty years later, the storm is known as the costliest and one of the deadliest to ever hit the United States. Katrina first made landfall as a Category 1 storm in Florida on Aug. 25, 2005. It then …

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