My parents, brother and I were on vacation in Florida, and we were talking about Donald Trump. The idea of leaving America if a scary Republican wins has always been a joke among high-minded liberals who can just fly off and find a job in Toronto or Geneva. But for my family, the joke had […]
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InternationalThis article was originally published in The Conversation. Read the original article. In August 2016, the 13-deck, 1,000-passenger Crystal Serenity set sail from Alaska to become the first cruise liner to attempt the Arctic’s fabled “north-west passage” that runs across the top of North America from the Pacific to the Atlantic. Until recently the passage
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InternationalThe following editorial appeared in the Chicago Tribune on Tuesday, Sept. 13: ——— Some political debates are about ideas and issues. The 1858 U.S. Senate debates in Illinois between Stephen Douglas and Abraham Lincoln focused on the future of slavery in America. The candidates talked for a total of three hours in each of seven
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USASACRAMENTO, Calif. — As many California voters prefer “none of the above” as plan to vote for Loretta Sanchez. Support for the Orange County congresswoman in the state’s U.S. Senate race not only lags far behind that of her rival, Attorney General Kamala Harris, but is matched by the pool of Californians who say they
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USASwing states, the handful of electorate gold that can make or break a bid for the Oval Office, will once again be at the very core of the U.S. presidential election and this year 13 states have earned the designation. According to the latest poll analysis from the Associated Press, Democrat Hillary Clinton currently has
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USAGreen Party presidential nominee Jill Stein is ramping up her campaign efforts in an attempt to bring more attention to herself and her political platform, looking to the past as a way to potentially propel her candidacy forward. The longshot White House hopeful who just last week was charged criminally for her role in a
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USAEduardo Cunha, the man dubbed Brazil’s most corrupt, and former speaker of the lower house has been stripped of his seat. The chamber voted 450-10 to remove him from office. He was charged with corruption and denied the existence of Swiss bank accounts, he now faces arrest. Defending himself, he said he was ‘paying the
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InternationalFormer UK Prime Minister David Cameron is to step down as the MP for Witney, seemingly ending his political career. The move will prompt a by-election in the Oxfordshire constituency. He resigned as head of government in June, 2016, after failing to convince British and Northern Irish voters to remain in the European Union. Relegated
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InternationalKentucky Gov. Matt Bevin said Saturday that America is at a fork in the road and if something isn’t done soon to protect religious and conservative values, people might have to physically fight for them. “I want us to be able to fight ideologically, mentally, spiritually, economically, so that we don’t have to do it
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USAWASHINGTON — Suddenly, Donald Trump has become a much better, more polished and focused presidential candidate. He’s making carefully worded speeches and issuing policy papers about the day’s top issues. He visited flood victims in Louisiana and traveled to Mexico to meet that country’s president. He’s staying on message, running an ad blasting Clinton for
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USAJewish studies are more important than learning mathematics and science, Education Minister Naftali Bennett said on Monday night. Speaking in Caesarea at a conference of the TALI Education Fund, which provides a pluralistic Jewish Studies program for public schools, Bennett stressed the importance of Jewish education over secular subjects. “Learning about Judaism and excellence in
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Jewish Religion, Middle EastSANTA CRUZ, California – Forty-three Jewish and education advocacy groups on Tuesday, Sept. 13, demanded that UC Berkeley Chancellor Nicholas Dirks take immediate steps to overhaul the course review process that allowed a student-taught, credit bearing course entitled “Palestine: A Settler Colonial Analysis” to be offered this semester. Not only is the course in clear
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USAWASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) — Shurat HaDin-Israel Law Center, representing American families of terror victims who hold unsatisfied U.S. court judgments against the government of Iran for its support of Palestinian terrorist attacks in Israel, today released a letter to the U.S. Congress alleging that the Obama Administration kept secret the details of $1.7 billion
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International, Middle East, USAPublished with permission from Media Matters for America. Prominent white nationalists touted their growing media influence in the wake of Donald Trump’s rise to the Republican presidential nomination on a wave of bigoted rhetoric at a September 9 press conference titled “What Is The Alt-Right?” The press conference, organized by white nationalist “think tank” the
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