I think I finally understand why Clinton lost in November. It’s not Comey or the relentless GOP propaganda campaign against her over the last twenty years, though those mattered immensely. It’s not exactly Bernie Bros, though they mattered too. It’s certainly not sexism, even if it may have played some role. It’s also not so […]
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| by Lucas Lynch | When most Presidents take office, we are disappointed and angry about the things they promise and don’t deliver. In the case of Donald Trump, after just one week, we are terrified that he’s really trying to implement almost everything he promised. But he is still falling short. It has already become […]
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| by Malhar Mali | Imagine I believed these things: A conservative religious law is “only misunderstood,” so we shouldn’t worry about the millions living under it in abject oppression due to their homosexuality, lack of faith, and sex because our “loans and credits will become interest free”; we needn’t focus on women in Saudi Arabia […]
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| by Joe Herbert | All societies divide people into male or female. There is a biological truth behind this: different sex chromosomes (XY, XX). But could many gender differences be down to social conditioning? If we treated girls and boys the same from birth, what would the consequences be? More equal opportunities? Or a complete breakdown […]
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| by Tony Philpott | In the 1500s the Vatican aligned itself with its favorite despots — and the Protestants cuddled up to their preferred tyrants. Each religion claiming divine sponsorship — each ruler laying claim to whatever land the ruler next door happened to occupy. After the Diet of Speyer, the principle of cuius […]
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One day in 2011 when I was living in Manchester, I encountered a Christian fundamentalist standing on Market Street wearing a sandwich board that expressed some of the fundamentals of his faith. His sign served as a warning to various groups of people to turn from their wicked ways or face eternal damnation in a […]
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“As somebody who escaped Lebanon and actually hid under desks to avoid death squads, I don’t take well to these idiots from Wellesley College who say, ‘I’m scared to go and buy my hamburgers now that Trump won,’ because it trivializes what true trauma is.” — Gad Saad Gad Saad (@GadSaad) is an outspoken social critic of the […]
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| by Wyatt Harding | As our culture wars rage on, a vast array of socio-political ideologies are emerging as traditional boundaries of thought are becoming increasingly fractured. An entire new pantheon of spokespersons and talking heads representing these movements has taken to the Internet to discuss, debate, and spread ideas of their world-views. To […]
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Faisal Al Mutar is a secular and human rights activist who was awarded The President’s Volunteer Service Award, Gold, from the Obama Administration in 2016. He’s experienced life under Saddam Hussein and lived in Iraq during the American invasion and civil war which followed after. He escaped Iraq in 2009 after the loss of his brother, cousin, […]
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