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In the future, as the history of President Donald Trump‘s political life is being written, Tuesday, Sept. 30 may come to be seen as the day when the American police state was finally unmasked for all ...

In retrospect, they got me with The Karate Kid. I was 7 years old when that movie—about a not-particularly-athletic teen who studies martial arts, finds confidence, and then publicly kicks a ...