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Quoted: A garbage patch in the Pacific is one of five that may be caught in giant gyres scattered in the world’s oceans.

Quoted: A court’s overt disregard for the central role of judges in policing executive branch excesses has frightening implications for safeguarding civil liberties.

Quoted: If the G.O.P. essentially shrinks down to a rump party across America, the country could become ungovernable in the midst of a continuing economic disaster.