[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...
Valuable Immigrant-Founded Startups Coming To U.S. Stock Market
[aggregation-styles] Forbes Valuable Immigrant-Founded Startups Coming To U.S. Stock Market Immigrants have created some of America’s most valuable privately held companies. Several of these companies are soon to become publicly traded and available to any American who wants to invest in these billion-dollar startups. The news of potential initial public...
US Newspapers Twice as Likely to Cite Israeli Sources Than Palestinian
[aggregation-styles] The Intercept US Newspapers Twice as Likely to Cite Israeli Sources Than Palestinian At the height of the 2014 war between the Israeli military and Palestinian factions in the Gaza Strip, the New York Times ran an article headlined, “Israel Says That Hamas Uses Civilian Shields, Reviving Debate.” It...
