Intro to Islam, Salafism and jihadism
Can we turn the clock back and make the Muslim world great again?
What my mostly white town is doing to defeat Trumpism
As a Black woman, I was anxious about moving to a conservative state. But, surprisingly, I found a community ready to embrace me and fight for equality.
Voting With Their Stone-Age Brains
Historian Rick Shenkman tells Bill Moyers that it's the voters and their emotions, not the candidates and their ideas, that will determine the outcome of the election in November.
Tax-dodging billionaire dynasties could cost US $8.4 trillion
Over the next few decades, the richest American families could avoid paying about $8.4 trillion in taxes, or more than four times...
Donald Trump’s ‘romantic nationalism’ takes the stage at the UN
"...it gives us a better idea of what the American left will be facing from this ‘new’ right for the foreseeable future..."
Some Progressives plan to reject House rules package over PAYGO spending restraints
New York Rep.-elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and California Rep. Ro Khanna openly spoke out about their intent to reject the provision, which "requires that new spending be offset by matching cuts or increases in revenue."
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez grills Michael Cohen, laying out plan to probe more Trump crimes
“In five minutes, this freshman congresswoman just laid out a whole investigative plan for three more topics into Donald Trump’s potentially criminal activities.”
Elizabeth Warren urges Treasury and Fed to protect workers and taxpayers in new bailout...
“You can and must do better for American workers, taxpayers, and the economy.”
The continued craziness at the IRS (Part II)
Is this crazy, or what?
Education: Time for a New Purpose
New methodologies are needed that inculcate true individuality and creative independent thinking. At the heart of the required changes – which need to be both gradual and radical – must be education – formal and non-formal.