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[Anna Dubenko](
[Anna Dubenko]( Senior Digital Strategist
Not everyone thought that Al Franken should have resigned from the Senate after allegations of sexual harassment. One writer, who describes herself âas conservative as they come,â warned her readers that this may be a sign that the #MeToo movement has gone too far. Read what other columnists from the right, left and center had to say about Mr. Frankenâs departure. [THE NEW YORK TIMES]( [»](
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[Rod Nordland](
[Rod Nordland]( International Correspondent at Large
Any article that apparently seriously references âthe romantic glow of the Duane Reade sign,â however ironically, is probably cruising for a bruising, and Slateâs Allison Benedikt gets it in this devastating take down by Josephine Livingstone. [Benediktâs much-shared piece]( argued that men sometimes need to be forgiven their advances. Her own boss did not ask her permission for their first drugstore-illuminated kiss, but now theyâre happily married with kids, ta da. Ms. Livingstone recalls an undergraduate affair with her Oxford professor, which at the time she thought was wonderful, but now realizes was wrong, given the relative power dynamics between them. A fairy tale ending, she says, doesnât validate the beginning. [NEW REPUBLIC »](
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[Trip Gabriel](
[Trip Gabriel]( Correspondent
There are grave issues roiling the Senate. And then there is the matter of whether Senator Rand Paulâs laissez-faire yard maintenance led a neighbor to violently tackle him last month at his home, leaving him with six cracked ribs. The Post is the latest to visit the gated community in Bowling Green, Ky., where Mr. Paul lives, and it finds neighbors skeptical that yard clippings provoked the attack. After previous deep dives into the subject by [The Times]( [GQ]( and [others]( Iâm not sure The Post breaks, well, new turf. But readers who crave relief from weighty Washington news will want to check out this latest chapter in a running mystery. [THE WASHINGTON POST »](
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[Lynda Richardson](
[Lynda Richardson]( Senior Staff Editor, Travel
This haunting read, âPeople for Sale,â tells how CNN documented human slave auctions in Libya. A CNN correspondent, the daughter of newspaper publishers in Sudan, went undercover to chase down rumors that human smugglers were putting sub-Saharan African migrants on the block, and ended up recording lives being sold for $400. [POYNTER »](
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[Prashant Rao](
[Prashant Rao]( Deputy Europe Business Editor
All conflicts have heroes we never get to know â anonymous observers who feed information and insight to the outside world. For years, an unidentified historian who called himself Mosul Eye told us all about life under the Islamic State in the Iraqi city it held. The A.P. tracked him down, and in a gripping tale, told his story. An incredible tale about an incredible person. [THE ASSOCIATED PRESS »](
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[Liam Stack](
[Liam Stack]( Reporter
Last week was the 350th anniversary of the birth of Jonathan Swift, the Irish moralist and satirist whose work â such as âA Modest Proposal,â which advised the rich to eat the children of the poor â never seems to fall into irrelevance. The columnist Fintan OâToole celebrated his life, and the modern implications of his work, with a speech at St. Patrickâs Cathedral in Dublin. Swift, he said, âlacked the protective shell, the thick skin, that allows other people not to see what they are seeing, not to feel what they are feeling, not to know what they know.â [THE IRISH TIMES »](
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[Mike Isaac](
[Mike Isaac]( Technology Reporter
We have spent 2017 trying to determine Facebookâs role in the outcome of the American presidential election. But what about the rest of the world, where despots and democracies rise and fall frequently, and a major election occurs every few months? Bloomberg dives into what happens when an authoritarian government (in this case, the Philippines) weaponizes Facebook for its own ends, and what that could mean for the future of governance in the real world. [BLOOMBERG BUSINESSWEEK »](
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[Carl Hulse](
[Carl Hulse]( Chief Washington Correspondent
Iâve known the radio reporter Jamie Dupree for decades through his work on Capitol Hill. This is the moving first-person account of a veteran radio announcer who suffered the unthinkable loss of a chief tool â his voice. Jamie is searching for answers, and I and all of Capitol Hill are hoping he finds them. [JAMIE DUPREEâS BLOG »](
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[Kate Phillips](
[Kate Phillips]( Senior Editor, Health and Science
A new study examined the bones of our ancient female ancestors against those of todayâs female soccer players, rowers and other athletes. Rarely have womenâs bones of old been compared properly, and this research indicates that prehistoric women did a lot more heavy lifting outdoors than was previously known in the periods when life shifted from hunter/gatherer to farmer. [NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC »](
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[Steven Erlanger](
[Steven Erlanger]( Chief Diplomatic Correspondent, Europe
Every Christmas I try to do two seasonal things â watch Ingmar Bergmanâs magnificent âFanny and Alexander,â and reread James Joyceâs breathtaking, moving, wistful novella, âThe Dead.â I once heard the poet Anthony Hecht read it aloud, savoring every careful word. I always end up in tears. [THE LITERATURE NETWORK »](
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