[aggregation-styles] America Magazine He said, ‘I am but a messenger from your Lord, [come] to announce to you the gift of a pure son.’ She said, ‘How can I have a son when no man has touched me? I have not been unchaste.’ —Qur’an, Sura 19:19-20 It might surprise some...

[aggregation-styles] Thought Economics “I am one of the early birds…” Ece Temelkuran told me, “I saw democracy collapse in Turkey and tried to warn the United States, European Countries and Britain about this.  I’ve been telling people that what you think is normal, or a passing phase, is part of a bigger...

[aggregation-styles] The Intercept The movie "Love Actually" has some good advice: At Christmas, you tell the truth. It’s the perfect day to be honest about what you’ve done in the past year, what that says about who you are, and what it means about where you’re heading. So, let’s tell the truth...

[aggregation-styles] Los Angeles Times Subscription There are the big, juicy political developments, of the sort that require double-sized headlines on front pages and, eventually, their own chapters in history books. And there are the quiet, incremental ones. But both matter. Last week, the world watched as articles of impeachment against...

[aggregation-styles] Haaretz Using all its tools of propaganda and tactics of intimidation, Narendra Modi government is broadcasting the message that all is well in India. It isn’t. The truth is that India, as a nation, is going through a great turmoil - economically, politically and socially. As the author and activist...

[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...

[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...

[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...

[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...