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Deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon increased sharply in 2016. The government must take steps to protect the world’s largest rain forest.

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Religious scholars argue that the Waco raid was not justified and that with more understanding of theology, the loss of life could have been avoided.

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The “renegade” scholar Stanley Fish is really a bit dramatic.