Islamic Extremism: A Plea for Intellectual Honesty
Of the many explosive public debates that have raged in the post 9/11 West, perhaps none have been more controversial than the one over the cause of Islamic extremism....
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It Is Two Minutes to Midnight and America’s Youth Is Fighting to Save Us All
At the beginning of 2018, the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists moved the minute hand of its infamous Doomsday Clock to two minutes to midnight (midnight being a large...
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Beyond Slogans: Why #Oprah2020 Would be a Tragic Mistake
On January 7, 2018, a familiar face in an elegant black gown looked out at a room filled with the most glamorous mourners the world had ever seen. The biggest names of...
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Precarious Dignity: The Unacceptable Plight of Montreal’s Working Poor
On January 25, 2009, La Presse’s Caroline Touzin brought Quebecers back down to Earth from their holiday high. In a devastating article entitled “La pauvreté au...
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Quelling the Far Right: What the World Can (and Can’t) Learn from Scandinavia
“If you’ve got money, you vote in… if you haven’t got money, you vote out.” Those were the words of a woman in northern Manchester, spoken to The Guardian just a...
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How Democrats Can Win Back the White House in 2020
It was 3:48 AM on November 9, 2016 on the East Coast. The world sat in stunned silence as it watched Donald J. Trump become the President-elect of the United States ....
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