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‘Thought UnitedHealthcare couldn’t get more awful? They’ve gone villain mode.’

Arwa Mahdawi at The Guardian

The “deal between Israel and Hamas is good but not great: Both groups are relishing what they are getting, and choking a bit on what they have given up,” says Graeme Wood. There “will be scenes of jubilation and triumph from Gazans and Israelis,” but for Israel and Gaza, the “past 15 months have been a miserable failure, and from the perspective of negotiation, the only good news is that both sides taste some of the bitterness.”

‘How England’s legal system favors grooming gangsters over outspoken citizens’

Abigail Anthony at the National Review

The United Kingdom “has justice all backwards,” says Abigail Anthony. Recent “outrage about the ‘grooming gangs,’ more accurately dubbed ‘child-prostitution rings,’ has brought attention to the stunning lack of prosecution.” People “cared more about preserving the optics of multiculturalism than penalizing the pimps or aiding the young victims who have been mentally, physically, and emotionally abused.” But “equally infuriating is the suspiciously low jail time that is given in the rare cases that sentencing actually occurs.”

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