Dakota Access Pipeline and the inconvenience of history
The Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) is a $3.8 billion conduit that when completed, will stretch 1,172 miles from North Dakota to Illinois, delivering about 470,000...
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Of xenophobia and swimwear
Who would have thought 70 years ago that swimsuits covering too much of the body would ever be banned? A string of French beach towns...
Voting Third Party: An Exercise in Futility
Strategic voting has always been a difficult pill to swallow for many voters in all election cycles. The notion that it is necessary to vote...
The cowardice of Vichy Republicans
Donald Trump’s sparring with Khzir Khan and the subsequent response from a few notable members of the GOP highlighted a striking split in party ideology...
The DNC, pseudo-democracy and the resurgence of party power
It is easy to be angry, even outraged at the Democratic National Committee’s (DNC) “neutrality” in the wake of the mass of leaked internal emails....
Erdogan survives coup that could not follow through
In Turkey, the President is required by the country’s constitution to be neutral in all matters of politics. Yet Recep Tayyip Erdogan has disregarded this...
Safety concerns at Black Lives Matter protests
Protesters have taken to the streets of Atlanta for five consecutive nights in the wake of police shootings and retaliatory attacks across the country. Two...
Ramadan ends with more terror, this time in Iraq, Saudi Arabia
The death toll rests at approximately 215 after a suicide bomber detonated a refrigerator truck filled with explosives in Baghdad, Iraq, the night of Saturday,...