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<em>The Atlantic </em>Daily: Do Not Hold Video Truths to Be Self-Evident

Viral footage of Catholic students clashing with American Indians appeared at first to tell a simple truth. Plus MLK’s speech on the “three major evils,” Trump Tower Moscow confusion, and more
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, though time and again it’s offered as proof, as explanation. This weekend, controversy boiled over around a of Kentucky Catholic high school students in Washington for the March for Life, appearing to mock Native Americans who’d participated in the Indigenous Peoples March. Then a emerged, muddling the clarity of the What’s a

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