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May 2025 be a year of setting better standards

Ken Opalo is a professor at Georgetown University.

As we close 2024, it is worth considering one of the biggest problems facing us as a country: the total fraying of our social fabric.

The symptoms of the problem abound, from increasing incidents of femicide, to distasteful images of the President shared online, to the rising number of abductions that are allegedly the work of state security agents.

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