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British Prime Minister Theresa May, second left, walks by as EU leaders sit for a dinner meeting at an EU summit in Brussels, Tuesday, May 28, 2019. European Union leaders are meeting in Brussels to haggle over who should lead the 28-nation bloc's key institutions for the next five years after weekend elections shook up Europe's political landscape. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco, Pool)

Editorial: EU elections expose the erosion of Europe’s political middle

by Los Angeles Times May 30, 2019

The results of the just concluded European Union parliamentary elections weren’t as bad as supporters of the postwar order of liberal democracies had feared they would be. But they weren’t good, either. The nationalist right improved its position…

Special to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution — Steve Schaefer
Commencement speaker billionaire Robert F. Smith announces he is paying all student debt for the Class of 2019 during the Morehouse College graduation ceremony In Atlanta, Sunday, May 19, 2019.

Editorial: Billionaire’s generous graduation gift should focus attention on student debt

by Los Angeles Times May 21, 2019

President Donald Trump speaks about modernizing the immigration system in the Rose Garden of the White House, Thursday, May 16, 2019, in Washington. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Editorial: President’s immigration proposal falls short

by Los Angeles Times May 19, 2019

Headquarters of the National Security Agency in Fort Meade, Maryland. (Wikimedia Commons)

Editorial: Hang up on the NSA’s phone record program

by Los Angeles Times May 15, 2019

House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y., talks to reporters after leading his Democratic majority to vote to hold Attorney General William Barr in contempt of Congress, escalating the legal battle with the Trump administration over access to special counsel Robert Mueller's report, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, May 8, 2019. The committee voted 24-16 to hold Barr in contempt after the Justice Department rejected House Democrats' demands for the full Mueller report and the underlying evidence. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Editorial: Trump’s stonewalling of Congress is dangerous and self-serving

by Los Angeles Times May 13, 2019

FILE - In this Dec. 14, 2011, file photo, a lemur looks through the forest at Andasibe-Mantadia National Park in Andasibe, Madagascar. Development that’s led to loss of habitat, climate change, overfishing, pollution and invasive species is causing a biodiversity crisis, scientists say in a new United Nations science report released Monday, May 6, 2019. (AP Photo/Jason Straziuso, File)

Editorial: An ominous picture of man’s impact on the Earth

by Los Angeles Times May 9, 2019

FILE - In this March 14, 2019, file photo, families who crossed the nearby U.S.-Mexico border near McAllen, Texas are placed in a Border Patrol vehicle. U.S. border authorities say they’ve started to increase the biometric data they take from children 13 years of age and younger, including fingerprints, despite privacy concerns and government policy intended to restrict what can be collected from migrant youth. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)

Editorial: Trump administration still separating families

by Los Angeles Times May 8, 2019

FILE - In this Jan. 22, 2005 file photo, the entrance of Mar-a-Lago in West Palm Beach, Fla. Donald Trump received a $17 million insurance payment in 2005 for hurricane damage to Mar-a-Lago, his private club in Palm Beach, but The Associated Press found little evidence of such large-scale damage. (AP Photo/Alan Diaz, File)

Editorial: Taxpayers footed a $1,000 bar bill at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago, and that’s just for starters

by Los Angeles Times May 6, 2019

South Africa's Caster Semenya crosses the line to win the gold in the women's 800-meter final during the Diamond League in Doha, Qatar, Friday, May 3, 2019. (AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili)

Editorial: Sport court’s ruling is unnatural — and sexist

by Los Angeles Times May 3, 2019

Rabbi Yisroel Goldstein, right, is hugged as he leaves a news conference at the Chabad of Poway synagogue, Sunday, April 28, 2019, in Poway, Calif. A man opened fire Saturday inside the synagogue near San Diego as worshippers celebrated the last day of a major Jewish holiday. (AP Photo/Denis Poroy)

Editorial: Shocking acts of terror directed at people of faith

by Los Angeles Times April 29, 2019