An enormous amount of police time and resources go into traffic patrol, in which officers pull over motorists for infractions as minor as a single nonfunctioning taillight. Traffic stops have become ...

A pretext is a reason given that is not the real reason. Authoritarians use ‘pretexts’ to accomplish their goals of total control of all levels of society. For instance, Trump uses the pretext of anti ...

Sometimes you have to call a pretext a pretext. That’s what Title 42 always was, a COVID-19 pandemic-related excuse to get rid of the problem of asylum seekers at our southern border. The legalese was ...

MOSCOW, Feb 4 (Reuters) - Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov on Friday dismissed as "nonsense" allegations by the United States that Moscow was preparing a fake video as a pretext for starting a ...