[aggregation-styles] The Atlantic Subscription Remember these numbers. You’ll be asked about them at the end of the test: 70, 73, 76, and 78. These are the ages of the leading candidates in the 2020 presidential election: Elizabeth Warren, Donald Trump, Joe Biden, and Bernie Sanders, respectively. In most any other...
To Make the World Richer, Let People Move
[aggregation-styles] The Economist Subscription Under a makeshift sunshade by a half-dry riverbed on the Indonesian island of Java, Eddie Sebastian is taking a lunch-break. It is hot and he is tired. He makes $2 a day collecting stones, breaking them with a hammer and selling them as building material. Asked...
Thanks to Sanders, Conditioning Aid to Israel Is Entering the National Conversation
[aggregation-styles] The American Prospect A savvy politician, presidential candidate Bernie Sanders (I—Vermont) worked the crowd at the J Street conference in Washington. “Just a couple of things …” said Sanders, standing up from the chair he was seated in on the stage. “Number one: I am very proud to be...
What a New Film Gets Right About the Iranian Hostage Crisis
[aggregation-styles] The Washington Post Subscription The specter of history looms large over the contentious relationship between Iran and the United States. As the beginning of the Iran hostage crisis in 1979 just passed its 40th anniversary, Oscar-winning filmmaker Barbara Kopple has waded into the topic with “Desert One,” a documentary...
Bringing Up Babel
[aggregation-styles] The Economist: 1843 OCTOBER/NOVEMBER 2016 “Her is a bad guy!” This is a nerve-racking moment, not the first and not to be the last. My son Henry is describing the squid-witch Ursula, from Disney’s “Little Mermaid”, to his brother Jack. “She” is one of the most common words in...
Editorial: Dead Dogs and Toxic Fish: Welcome to Stockton, a City Choking on California Water Policy
[aggregation-styles] Los Angeles Times Subscription Stockton is a city simultaneously in recovery and under stress. The municipality of about 300,000, some 50 miles south of Sacramento and 80 miles east of San Francisco on California’s extraordinary inland delta, became the largest U.S. city to file for bankruptcy in 2012 (Detroit...
It’s Not up to Mark Zuckerberg to Decide What News Is Legitimate
[aggregation-styles] The Washington Post Subscription There is now a growing consensus that American democracy needs to be saved by Mark Zuckerberg. People from Sen. Elizabeth Warren to Aaron Sorkin are demanding that Facebook stop running obviously false political advertising. So, let me pose a question: Would everyone be as comfortable...
Opinion: Israeli Soldiers Attacked a Palestinian Dad With His Son. Watch It and Cry
[aggregation-styles] Haaretz Every day of the last week has offered another glimpse of the racist, fascist and brutal conduct by IDF “fighters,” the pride of the nation. The stomach churns each time anew when watching them in action. These Judeo-Nazi storm troopers. The latest video was filmed on Tuesday in...
The Israelis and Occupation: A Story of Denial
Haaretz columnist Gideon Levy’s talk in Melbourne, sponsored by the Australia Palestine Advocacy Network on November 30, 2017.
Yes, the Billionaire Club Is One We Really Need to Shut Down
[aggregation-styles] The Guardian Won’t anyone think of the poor, persecuted billionaires? When Labour backbencher Lloyd Russell-Moyle told the BBC’s Emma Barnett that he didn’t “think anyone in this country should be a billionaire” on national radio, she reacted as though the Brighton MP had floated nationalising her favourite grandmother. A...