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Bumper Cars for the Bundestag
If you’ve ever been on a bumper car at an amusement park - and who hasn’t? - you can get an idea of current German politics. Here, too, the …
One Step at a Time: The Gabr Fellows’ Story
In the midst of the confusion and uncertainty that characterizes current US-Egypt relations and with American and Egyptian attitudes toward each other having plummeted to all-time lows, I recently …
Is the Pope Getting the Catholics Ready for an Economic Revolution? (Maybe He Read Marx)
Could it be that Pope Francis' new criticism of Capitalism could be the echoes of atheist economic philosopher Karl Marx.
Israel-Palestine: Enough Negotiations Already!
Palestinians should not lend their name to a charade of endless negotiations while historic Palestine disappears.
Memory and Repression in El Salvador
While many countries of Latin America rescue the memories of victims of human rights abuses through public trials, in El Salvador, repression of alternative narratives intensifies.
Pilgrim’s Regress and the “Hand of God”
When climbing aboard the Mayflower and learning that his young wife, Dorothy, had fallen overboard and drowned, more than likely committing suicide, William Bradford called his tiny flock of …
Iran Nuclear Deal as Geopolitical Global Warming
With Iran holding the dubious honor of being the CIA's first adventure in the overthrow of a foreign government in 1953, the blowback for that and every other insidious …
The Global War on Terror and Internally Displaced Thanksgivings
Except for those directly participating in GWOT or returning home from overseas military deployments, including their immediate families, this Thanksgiving few US citizens will consider how an international antiterrorism …
Senate Majority Invokes “Democracy Option“
A change in filibuster rule restores the possibility of a functioning Legislative, Executive and Judicial branches of government.
How Can We Help America’s Opportunity Youth? Five Lessons Learned in New Orleans
Young people who aren't in school or working aren't beyond hope, but we need to invest more in the programs that will help them.