In this strategy memo on why progressive Democrats and Empire-skeptic Republicans should do what they reasonably can to assist efforts to block the recently proposed Saudi arms deal, I will cover four points. 1. What's going on 2. Why this is a winnable fight 3. Why blocking/trying...
All that is missing is a ticker-tape parade and a marching band playing "Happy Days are Here Again." Were it not for the North Carolina humidity reminding me that it's August, I'd be convinced that the election is over and Hillary Clinton was president-elect. But just below the cacophony lingers...
We've been gauging the US economy based on post-it notes sales. We print 3M Post-it Notes and about 13 or 14 years ago, we started getting orders regarding real estate - sort of a "we buy ugly houses" pad made out to look like a UPS notice left by...
لم توثق جريمة في التاريخ مثلما حدث مع مذبحة فض اعتصامي رابعة العدوية والنهضة، في الرابع عشر من أغسطس عام ألفين وثلاثة عشر، بالإضافة إلى المذابح الأخرى السابقة (الحرس الجمهوري- المنصة- سيدي جابر- رمسيس الأولى) واللاحقة (رمسيس الثانية- عربة الترحيلات- 6 أكتوبر- 25 يناير.. إلخ)، وحتى الموازية، التي حدثت في نفس يوم الفض، مثل مجازر مصطفى محمود ومنطقة الألف مسكن في القاهرة والجيزة، ومسجد علي بن أبي طالب بالإسكندرية، وعشرات غيرهما في المحافظات.
Hillary Clinton's religious background is more straightforward than Donald Trump's (on Trump's religious background, see last month's blog post), but just as revealing of how well she will likely do this November with churchgoing voters. This is an especially important consideration in the part of the country located between Pittsburgh...
Fast, decentralized, and secure, the distributed ledger system known as a blockchain is taking the financial world by storm. Even global financial powerhouse JP Morgan Chase & Co. has taken notice: Blockchain is becoming a C-suite issue. What roles do CEOs, COOs & CTOs need to...
Social Security provides the majority of income for two out of three retirees and seven out of ten people with disabilities. It provides virtually all of the income for one out of three seniors and people with disabilities. It lifts over 20 million people -- including over a million children -- out of poverty and lessens the depth of poverty for millions more.
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Marina Joubert, Stellenbosch University December 1900 marked the first ever "Christmas Bird Count". Its aim was to get people counting bird species rather than killing them. It's now an annual tradition. Every year on a specific day between December 14...
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Co-written with Tea Ivanovic, WYLN Senior Fellow and Board Member at the Mediterranean Basin Initiative, Paul H. Nitze School of International Advanced Studies at Johns Hopkins University alumna It is known to the world that the Kurdistan Region in Iraq is facing daunting problems, as its combats the...
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The number of Western citizens being detained and thrown in Iran's political jail, Evin prison, is increasing. Most of those being targeted are from Western countries (Europeans or Americans), who have Iranian ethnicity. Even the State Department has acknowledged the increasing threat "Iran has continued to harass,...
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Paradigm Shifters is a series of interviews with a select group of women and men from eclectic walks of life. It will highlight unspoken, real-life insights on how they have been able to turn weakness into strength. A naked soul point of view of how their breakdowns were really a...
Originally published 8/10/2016 in The Guardian. I'm a gun owner and Donald Trump doesn't speak for me - or any of the gun owners I know. His suggestion on Tuesday that we "second amendment people" could take matters into our own hands if Hillary Clinton makes undesirable supreme...
The magnificent fresh water reservoir of Montsouris (Le réservoir de Montsouris), inside the belly of Paris, is one of the several receptacles the large city keeps under check to make sure all Parisians and visitors alike can get a glass of clean water....
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