[aggregation-styles] Haaretz The establishment of Israel involved the destruction of the Palestinian society that existed here until 1948. Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians became refugees, their villages destroyed and their land confiscated, with Jews settling on it instead. These events, called the Nakba (Catastrophe) ever since, and fueling the fire...
The Deepening Crisis in Evangelical Christianity
[aggregation-styles] The Atlantic Last week, Ralph Reed, the Faith and Freedom Coalition’s founder and chairman, told the group, “There has never been anyone who has defended us and who has fought for us, who we have loved more than Donald J. Trump. No one!” Reed is partially right; for many...
The Welcome Humiliation of John Bolton
[aggregation-styles] The New York Times Say this for Donald Trump. He may be transforming American politics into a kleptocratic fascist reality show and turning our once-great country into a global laughingstock, but at least he’s humiliating John Bolton in the process. Many people who get involved with this president end...
Evangelicals Are Supporting Trump Out of Fear, Not Faith
[aggregation-styles] TIME On June 21, the writer E. Jean Carroll came forward with a vivid and disturbing claim that Donald Trump raped her in a department store in the 1990s. She is the 22nd woman to allege that Trump committed acts of sexual misconduct. These claims are more extensive and...
Comparing Texas And California, And Why Texas Wins Out
[aggregation-styles] Fox and Hounds Daily “Texafornia – A Glimpse into America’s Future” headlines The Economist’s special report last week comparing America’s two mega states, California and Texas. The British magazine looked at several areas where the two states compete, and for the most part California came out second best. One...
Democrats Must Address the Roots of Our Asylum Crisis — or Give Trump the Advantage
[aggregation-styles] The Washington Post Given President Trump’s mean-spirited and often bigoted attitudes on immigration, it pains me to say that he is right that the United States faces a crisis with its asylum system. Democrats might hope that the out-of-control situation at the southern border undermines Trump’s image among his...
Dems, Please Don’t Drive Me Away
[aggregation-styles] The New York Times I could never in a million years vote for Donald Trump. So my question to Democrats is: Will there be a candidate I can vote for? According to a recent Gallup poll, 35 percent of Americans call themselves conservative, 35 percent call themselves moderate and...
The winner of the first Democratic debate: Donald Trump
[aggregation-styles] NBC News MIAMI — President Donald Trump was the big winner of the first 2020 Democratic debate. The Republican commander in chief, who was on his way to an economic summit in Osaka, Japan, emerged from the scrap largely unscathed — barely mentioned at all — even though he...
How to Live, According to Anthony Bourdain
[aggregation-styles] Vice “We are, after all, citizens of the world—a world filled with bacteria, some friendly, some not so friendly. Do we really want to travel in hermetically sealed popemobiles through the rural provinces of France, Mexico, and the Far East, eating only in Hard Rock Cafés and McDonald’s? Or...
The Boomers Ruined Everything
[aggregation-styles] The Atlantic The Baby Boomers ruined America. That sounds like a hyperbolic claim, but it’s one way to state what I found as I tried to solve a riddle. American society is going through a strange set of shifts: Even as cultural values are in rapid flux, political institutions...