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ORANGE ALERT: The (almost) daily outrage

"Today's decision puts many refugees and asylum seekers fleeing horrific violence -- especially women -- in grave danger and violates the spirit of our asylum law..." -- David Leopold, a former president and general counsel of the American Immigration Lawyers Association

“Today’s decision puts many refugees and asylum seekers fleeing horrific violence — especially women — in grave danger and violates the spirit of our asylum law which Congress wrote to protect victims of persecution, including women and children who flee their home countries in fear of their lives.”

David Leopold, a former president and general counsel of the American Immigration Lawyers Association.

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CONNECTIONS: Now and 300 years ago, we have the available land

The woods and hills, the low density, the open space, and gentle air prompted many of the first European settlers of the Berkshires to call it Eden. Now 300 years later, they are coming again. Once again, they are coming for the land. This time, what will they leave behind?

STEPHEN COHEN: Parsing Trump

So what happens now that the most influential leader in the world is a mercurial, autocratic wannabe with no realistic agenda and no real policies of how to make America great again?

LEONARD QUART: An election post-mortem without answers

After speaking to a handful of NYU students regarding the election, I continue trying to make some sense of why that beacon of cruelty and narcissism won relatively handily over a much more intelligent, articulate woman who, whatever her flaws, ran a smart, skillful campaign.

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