For centuries, armies usually clashed on battlefields, far from civilians.
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Gil Troy,
New York Daily News,
29 Mar. 2026
Reirson, the Western State College of Law professor, said the nation’s founding ideals of pluralism and equal opportunity have often clashed with an undercurrent of nativism and white supremacy.
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