[aggregation-styles] The Washington Post Subscription Impeachment is big news — justifiably so — but the battle cries around it have drowned out another momentous event, with important lessons for the 2020 campaign: last week’s seismic British elections. The simplest way to understand the British results is to look at one...
Talk With Iran Now. Time Is Fleeting.
[aggregation-styles] The New York Times Subscription The momentous protests in Iran this autumn came at a delicate time in a tense standoff between the United States and Iran. Despite the recent prisoner swap, officials in Washington may see the prospects for diplomacy dimming. But that would be wrong. Iranian elections...
The Foreign-Policy Parallels Between Trump and the Ayatollahs Are Uncanny
[aggregation-styles] Defense One It’s hard to imagine two parties more at loggerheads than President Trump and the Iranian leadership. They seem to look for every opportunity to undermine each other and attack each other. The strange thing, though, is they seem to have very similar instincts when it comes to...
I Drafted the Definition of Antisemitism. Rightwing Jews Are Weaponizing It
[aggregation-styles] The Guardian Fifteen years ago, as the American Jewish Committee’s antisemitism expert, I was the lead drafter of what was then called the “working definition of antisemitism”. It was created primarily so that European data collectors could know what to include and exclude. That way antisemitism could be monitored...
Trump-Friendly California Democrat is Facing His First Serious Primary Challenger
[aggregation-styles] The Intercept In 2004, California Rep. Jim Costa won his seat in the 20th Congressional District following a contentious primary battle against Lisa Quigley. Though the experienced Quigley had the backing of EMILY’s List and the endorsement of the retiring representative, Calvin Dooley, who was also her boss, the...
U.S. Lobbyists Prepare to Seize 'Historic Opportunity' in Tory-Led Brexit to Shred Consumer Safeguards, Raise Drug Prices
[aggregation-styles] The Intercept Boris Johnson's election on December 12 hinges on the British prime minister’s promise to leave the European Union. Johnson has remade the Conservative Party, pushing out longtime party members wary of a firm break from the EU, to cast the election as a chance to build a...
The World’s 100 Most Powerful Women
[aggregation-styles] Forbes Last December, leader of House Democrats Nancy Pelosi met with President Trump in the Oval Office to discuss a possible government shutdown. During the contentious 15-minute exchange, Pelosi challenged the President, interrupted his interruptions and made clear she would not back down. “Mr. President,” she said, “please don’t...
Liberty and Law Are Under Attack Worldwide. Consider the Impeachment Crisis in That Context.
[aggregation-styles] The Washington Post Subscription MUMBAI — At first glance, the impeachment proceedings against President Trump might seem to be a specifically and narrowly American matter. But if you look around the world, you see this is taking place amid a deeply worrying global trend. In country after country, we...
If Fresno State Can’t Sign DeBoer, Bulldogs Should Go Young
[aggregation-styles] The Sun Fresno State athletic director Terry Tumey is currently making the rounds trying to find the next head football coach to replace Jeff Tedford. Indiana offensive coordinator Kalen DeBoer likely sits atop the list. Considering the fact that he coached at Fresno State from 2017-2018 and that Tedford...
Iran’s Dark History Could Repeat Itself — Unless the World Acts
[aggregation-styles] The Washington Post Subscription Omid Memarian is a journalist, Iran analyst and the 2005 recipient of Human Rights Watch’s Human Rights Defender Award. Gissou Nia is a human rights lawyer, nonresident fellow at the Atlantic Council and board chair of the Iran Human Rights Documentation Center. In November, Swedish...