compromises

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While there’s plenty of room for disagreement over immigration policy, conspiracy theories make it much harder to find common ground or craft political compromises.

From Salon • Jun. 4, 2026

“A system in which a person’s right to liberty turns on financial resources compromises public safety and raises equal protection and due process concerns,” Associate Justice Joshua P. Groban wrote in his concurrence.

From Los Angeles Times • May 29, 2026

That is one of the heaviest lifts in global geopolitics, and compromises and incremental progress are a feature of democracy.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 13, 2026

It could mean that no party wins overall control of many London councils and that parties struggle to work together and make the necessary compromises to run local services.

From BBC • May 1, 2026

Human lives are priceless in many ways, but in order to reach reasonable compromises, we must, in effect, place a finite economic value on them.

From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos