[aggregation-styles] The Washington Post Saudi Arabia Is Heinously Torturing Female Activists. It Must Face Consequences. It has gradually become clear that one of the most heinous recent cases of torture of political prisoners occurred last year in Saudi Arabia — and may still be ongoing. The victims are women who...
Iran Needs a New Revolution
[aggregation-styles] Bloomberg Opinion Iran Needs a New Revolution Bloomberg Opinion is marking the 40th anniversary of Iran’s Islamic Revolution with a collection of columns from around the world. Four decades ago, in the months leading up to the Islamic Revolution in Iran, the exiled Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini made many promises....
The Trump Era Could Last 30 Years
[aggregation-styles] Financial Times The Trump Era Could Last 30 Years How long is this going to last? Ever since the twin political upheavals of 2016 — Britain’s vote for Brexit and America’s election of Donald Trump — analysts have argued about whether this a temporary aberration, or the beginning of...
Four Decades After Its Revolution, Iran Is Still Stuck in the Past
[aggregation-styles] The Economist Four Decades After Its Revolution, Iran Is Still Stuck in the Past For a few tense moments it seemed as if the flight carrying Ayatollah Khomeini back to Iran would not make it. Two weeks had passed since the shah, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, had left the country...
In Love and Tangled up in Trump’s Travel Ban
[aggregation-styles] The Washington Post In Love and Tangled up in Trump’s Travel Ban Two years since President Trump promised to “Make America Great Again” by barring citizens of several Muslim-majority countries from entering the United States, the dreams of thousands of Americans are being shattered. U.S. citizens who have fallen...
10 Reasons Why Finland's Education System Is the Best in the World
[aggregation-styles] World Economic Forum 10 Reasons Why Finland's Education System Is the Best in the World Time and time again, American students continually rank near the middle or bottom among industrialized nations when it comes to performance in math and science. The Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) which in...
7 Reasons U.S. Infrastructure Projects Cost Way More Than They Should
[aggregation-styles] CityLab 7 Reasons U.S. Infrastructure Projects Cost Way More Than They Should This past February, while declaring that infrastructure shouldn't be politicized, President Obama underscored its increasingly ideological nature in the United States. "Infrastructure shouldn't be a partisan issue," he said in front of a recently renovated St. Paul,...
Opinion: Messianic Jewish Lobbying Group Builds Support for US-Funded Relocation Plan in Palestine
[aggregation-styles] The Intercept Messianic Jewish Lobbying Lobbying Group Builds Support for US-Funded Relocation Plan in Palestine A pro-Israel activist group is quietly pushing lawmakers on Capitol Hill and key officials in the White House to embrace a plan that would entail paying Palestinian residents in the West Bank to move...
The People Who Shaped Islamic Civilisation
[aggregation-styles] The Economist 1843 The People Who Shaped Islamic Civilisation Coverage of violence and Islam often go hand in hand. So it comes as a relief to be reminded that historically, culturally and intellectually, Islam is less a nihilistic creed than a global civilisation. A new book by Chase Robinson,...
Opinion: The Twisted Logic of the Jewish ‘Historic Right’ to Israel
[aggregation-styles] Haaretz Opinion: The Twisted Logic of the Jewish ‘Historic Right’ to Israel I enjoy the vacillations of Chaim Gans, even if I don’t always understand them. I have the highest esteem for his intellectual honesty – even if at times, perhaps like everyone, he tries to resolve contradictions with...