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Richard Eskow GOP 'Health' Bill: Death, Disaster, and Gilded Age Greed The Republican Senate’s draft health bill differs from the House version, but its basic purpose is the same: give millionaires and billionaires a massive new tax cut by slashing health benefits for... Read more |
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Reese Erlich Trump’s Escalations of War in Syria—Sleepwalking into a Global Confrontation With its escalation of the undeclared war in Syria, the Trump Administration risks a direct military confrontation with Russia. On June 20, the United States shot down an Iranian drone flying near... Read more |
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Medea Benjamin, Kate Harveston Why Does Donald Trump Insist on More Military Spending? If you think we spend too much on our military as it is (more that the next eight countries combined), you might be shocked to hear President Trump has asked for an increase in military spending by... Read more |
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Sarah van Gelder Wage Love to End Debt’s Stranglehold Debt is an age-old means of shaming and controlling poor people. The practice is so commonplace, we hardly notice it. For many, going into debt is the only way to get an education, buy a home, or... Read more |
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Amy Goodman Medicare for All: A Prescription for What Ails Us President Donald Trump’s long-promised repeal of Obamacare, or the Affordable Care Act, edges closer to reality, as the Senate releases its secretly written version of the House’s American Health... Read more |
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John Feffer All Signs from Trump Point to a Coming Conflict with Iran The Saudi war in Yemen is really directed at…Iran. Donald Trump’s first overseas visit to Saudi Arabia and Israel was specifically targeted at…Iran. The Saudi-led isolation of Qatar is actually about... Read more |
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Robert C. Koehler When the Detainee Is American... The corpses pile up like sandbags along the planet’s geopolitical borders. “Perhaps his condition deteriorated and the authorities decided it was better to release him in a coma than as a corpse.” So... Read more |
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Neal Gabler Your Health May Be in Susan Collins’ Hands. And That’s Not Good News Susan Collins says she’s disturbed. That’s not exactly news. The Republican senator from Maine is frequently disturbed. She was disturbed by the Benghazi raid ; by the Republican shutdown of the... Read more |
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Jacob Leibenluft Once Passed, Medicaid Cuts Won’t Be Easily Reversed Despite promises that the emerging Senate health bill will moderate the health coverage cuts in the House-passed American Health Care Act (AHCA), the Senate not only is retaining the House bill’s... Read more |
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Leah Greenberg, Ezra Levin Here's How We Kill the Senate's Trumpcare Bill What's in this “new” TrumpCare bill? After weeks of total secrecy, this morning Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell released the Senate TrumpCare bill. And what a cruel, ugly bill it is. It guts... Read more |
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Will Rice Big Pharma Gets $28 Billion Tax Break in GOP Trumpcare Plan There will be a lot of losers if the House GOP’s disastrous plan to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act ever becomes law: people with preexisting medical conditions, working families, older... Read more |
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Andrew Bacevich 'There Will Be Hell to Pay': Writing History in the Trump Era Forgive me for complaining, but recent decades have not been easy ones for my peeps. I am from birth a member of the WHAM tribe, that once proud, but now embattled conglomeration of white,... Read more |
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Robert Pollin Single-Payer Healthcare for California Is, In Fact, Very Doable The California Senate recently voted to pass a bill that would establish a single-payer healthcare system for the entire state. The proposal, called the Healthy California Act, will now be taken up... Read more |
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Ralph Nader Closing Democracy’s Doors Until the People Open Them In 2006 a book was published called Losing Our Democracy by civic leader, Mark Green. His 21 st book, it was the usual Mark Green brand of meticulous research with memorable examples. One would have... Read more |
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Martha Burk The Tax Plan Moms Need During his speech announcing that the U.S. is ditching the Paris climate accords, President Trump took a strange detour to declare “our tax bill is moving along in Congress, and I believe it’s doing... Read more |
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Robert Jensen Naomi Klein Pushes Us to Dream Big to Get Beyond Trump’s Shock Politics Naomi Klein understands that President Donald J. Trump is a problem, but he is not the problem. Klein’s book does not stop with an analysis of the crises. In her new book, No Is Not Enough: Resisting... Read more |
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Olivia Alperstein Our President’s Word Wars These days I find myself thinking often about a cartoon by the late Theodore Geissel. In it, a woman with a sweater that reads “America First” reads aloud from a storybook to two children: “And the... Read more |
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Ramzy Baroud Israel vs. the United Nations: The Nikki Haley Doctrine The United States Ambassador to the United Nations, Nikki Haley, seems to be championing a single cause: Israel. When Haley speaks about Israel, her language is not merely emotive nor tailored to fit... Read more |
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Jeffrey Sterling A Whistleblower Imprisoned, Not Silenced Two years of imprisonment have given me ample time to reflect on the circumstances in which I find myself today. I often retrace my steps, carefully recalling each conversation I had and action I... Read more |
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Gabe Murphy The Trump Administration’s Penchant for Escalation in Syria Must Be Challenged From launching a volley of Tomahawk missiles at a Syrian air base, to repeatedly bombing pro-Syrian government forces, to shooting down a Syrian Air Force jet this past weekend, the Trump... Read more |
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Robert Reich The Case for Obstruction of Justice Obstruction of justice was among the articles of impeachment drafted against both Presidents Nixon and Clinton. The parallel between Nixon and Trump is almost exact. White House tapes revealed Nixon... Read more |
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Jay Bookman Georgia Special Election: Nobody Said It Was Easy. They Said It Was Important. There are two ways to look at it, I guess. From the point of view of the Republicans, they won Tuesday’s special election for Georgia’s 6th Congressional District, and that’s all that matters... Read more |
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Todd Gitlin Watch What Trump Tweets But Also What He Does I’m the last guy to turn my eyes away from the sub-Shakespearian maneuvers that may (or may not) be shuffling personnel behind closed doors in the White House. I confess myself tempted by the pastime... Read more |
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Kathy Kelly "Would You Like a Drink of Water?" Please Ask a Yemeni Child This week, in New York City, representatives from more than100 countries will begin collaborating on an international treaty, first proposed in 2016, to ban nuclear weapons forever. It makes sense... Read more |
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Wenonah Hauter Cuomo’s Nuke Bailout: Right Out of the Trump Playbook It's a deal Donald Trump would love—let's call it "The Great New York Ratepayer Swindle of 2016-17" —and New York's Democratic Governor Andrew Cuomo is responsible for it. And if giant energy... Read more |
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Hanif Hassan Al Qassim The World Society Needs to Express Greater Solidarity for Refugees Worldwide The world is heading into troubled waters as we are witnessing an unprecedented movement of people – refugees, migrants and internally displaced persons (IDPs) alike – fleeing from misery, poverty... Read more |
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William Hartung Trump's Love Affair With the Saudis At this point, it’s no great surprise when Donald Trump walks away from past statements in service to some impulse of the moment. Nowhere, however, has such a shift been more extreme or its potential... Read more |
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Tom Engelhardt The US Military Can’t Get Out (No Matter the Country or the Conflict) Not that anyone in a position of power seems to notice, but there’s a simple rule for American military involvement in the Greater Middle East: once the U.S. gets in, no matter the country, it never... Read more |
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Michael Winship Former Commish Michael Copps: 'Maybe the Worst FCC I’ve Ever Seen' In just a few short months, the Trump wrecking ball has pounded away at rules and regulations in virtually every government agency. The men and women the president has appointed to the Cabinet and to... Read more |
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Katrina vanden Heuvel On Trump, The Media’s Malpractice Continues One of the great ironies of the political moment is that President Trump’s sworn enemy has become, if not exactly an ally, an enabler of his agenda. For all of Trump’s griping about “fake news,” the... Read more |
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Jeremy Slevin If the Media Keeps Ignoring Health Care, We’ll Lose It There is a giant scandal in Washington this week—and it’s not the one blaring from your television screen. Largely without media scrutiny, the United States Senate is quietly getting ready to pass... Read more |
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Winnie Byanyima The Climate Movement Charges On, Even Without the US President Donald Trump has proved again how beholden our politics are to the interests of the super-rich elite. The conniving, rich oilmen that were so desperate to prevent and frustrate the Paris... Read more |
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Michael McPhearson Mourning Philando Castile at a Anti-Nuke Rally The following remarks were made on Saturday, June 17, 2017 at an anti-nuclear weapons rally in St. Louis, Missouri: I am here today as a peacemaker and a justice seeker to stand in solidarity with... Read more |
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Chris Hedges We Can’t Fight Climate Change if We Keep Lying to Ourselves We must embrace a despair that unflinchingly acknowledges the bleak future that will be created by climate change. We must see in any act of resistance, even if it appears futile, a moral victory... Read more |
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Ann Wright Killer Drones and the Militarization of U.S. Foreign Policy The militarization of U.S. foreign policy certainly didn’t start with President Donald J. Trump; in fact, it goes back several decades. However, if Trump’s first 100 days in office are any indication... Read more |
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Miles Mogulescu Did Trump Revive Failed Cold War Cuba Policy to Buy Rubio’s Loyalty? Donald Trump has made clear that there’s little room in his “America First” foreign policy for pressure on authoritarian foreign governments – whether Russia, Saudi Arabia, or China – to improve... Read more |
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Shaun King Philando Castile Verdict a Painful Result of Laws Rigged to Protect Cops Just about a year ago, while riding through his hometown outside of Saint Paul, Minn., on the 4th of July, Philando Castile was racially profiled by the local police. It happened to him often... Read more |
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Ira Chernus A Psychedelic Spin on "National Security" It’s the 50th anniversary of the Summer of Love. What better place to celebrate than that fabled era’s epicenter, San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park, where the DeYoung Museum has mounted a dazzling... Read more |
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Juan Cole London Mosque Attack: Did Trump’s Tweets Embolden Bigots? A man driving a white van swerved just after midnight early Monday morning into a crowd of Muslims coming out of Finsbury Park Mosque in North London, severely injuring British Musiims. The Muslim... Read more |
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Norman Solomon Behind the Media Surge Against Bernie Sanders It’s routine for right-wing outlets like Fox to smear progressive activists under the guise of “news” coverage. But why the New York Times? And why the special venom for Bernie Sanders? After the... Read more |
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Steven Singer Here’s an Idea: Guarantee Every Child an Excellent Education Let’s get one thing straight: there are plenty of things wrong with America’s school system. But they almost all stem from one major error. We don’t guarantee every child an excellent education... Read more |
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Frank Clemente Trump Cuts Critical Services to Pay for Wealthy Tax Cuts At a recent press conference at the U.S. Capitol, Marta Conner told reporters, “My daughter Caroline is alive because of Medicaid.” Caroline suffers from Rett Syndrome , a rare, debilitating... Read more |
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Sue Branford, Mauricio Torres Brazil on Verge of Legitimizing Amazon Land Theft on a Grand Scale The Amazon is the sort of wild place where you often go looking for one thing, but find another. So it was when Mongabay travelled in May on a mission to observe illegal logging operations within... Read more |
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Sue Sturgis Meet the Southern Senators Critical to Blocking Obamacare's Repeal Before leaving town for the July 4 recess, the GOP-controlled U.S. Senate is expected to vote on a bill to repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA), also known as "Obamacare" — and this week Senate... Read more |
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Diane Ravitch Indianapolis: What the Public Schools Learned from the Charter Schools Indiana has been taken over by the forces of corporate school reform, under a succession of Republican governors devoted to school choice: Mitch Daniels, Mike Pence, now Eric Holcomb. The public... Read more |
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David Korten We Will Soon Be Using More Than The Earth Can Provide Four days after President Trump announced the United States would withdraw from the Paris climate agreement, the Global Footprint Network (GFN) reported that Earth Overshoot Day 2017 will fall on... Read more |
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Andy Spears Tennessee Dads Ask Senators for a Simple Father's Day Gift A group of Tennessee dads gathered inside a dimly-lit parking garage on a rainy Nashville day to send a message to their senators, Bob Corker and Lamar Alexander. Their message was simple: this... Read more |
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Patrick Cochran A 'Revolution' Grows in Chicago “I want to tell you something, sisters and brothers,” former Ohio state senator Nina Turner belted from the stage on the first day of the People’s Summit in Chicago in early June. “This kind of... Read more |
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David Macaray The Vital Role of Organized Labor Question: What do the most “successful” countries in the world—i.e., the “happiest,” fairest, most enlightened, most optimistic, and most generous—have in common? Answer: The majority of them have... Read more |
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Robert Naiman UN Calls for Saudi-Yemen Ceasefire to Stop Cholera and Famine On June 15, the United Nations Security Council unanimously called for a cease-fire in the conflict between the Saudi-UAE coalition and the Houthi-Saleh forces in Yemen. "The U.N. Security Council... Read more |
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Grayson Clary The Espionage Act: One Hundred Years of Murky Law June 15, 2017 was the 100 th anniversary of the passage of the Espionage Act. Earlier this year, as if to commemorate the centennial, President Trump suggested to then-FBI Director James Comey that... Read more |
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Katie Fernelius Maybe This Is the Article That Will Convince You Not to Cut Medicaid My sister Maggie’s body attacks itself. In 2010, she went to the eye doctor for difficulties she was having with her vision. She thought she needed a new glasses prescription. Instead, she was... Read more |
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Jeff Bryant Are ‘Nonprofit’ Charter Schools a Distinction Without a Difference? In the most recent financial filings available, the couple who run a chain of 18 schools pay themselves $315,000 a year, plus nearly $39,000 in benefits. The school also employs their daughters,... Read more |
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Kevin Gosztola Chelsea Manning's Persevering Spirit Shines In Interview For ABC's 'Nightline' Whether in an imperfect or hostile setting, Chelsea Manning’s persevering spirit and humanity never fails to shine. That was certainly the case in her exclusive interview for “Nightline” on ABC. The... Read more |
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Janine Jackson Every Person You See on Air, Someone Chose to Put Them There Former Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly is best known to some for her harassment claims against her former boss, Roger Ailes . But NBC hired her to host a primetime news program, presumably based on her... Read more |
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Christopher Brauchli Humpty Trumpty “‘When I use a word,’ Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, ‘it means just what I choose it to mean-neither more nor less.’ ‘The question is’ said Alice, ‘whether you can make words mean so... Read more |
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Sonali Kolhatkar Republicans Keep Missing the Point About Gun Violence—Even When They’re the Targets Gun rights activists for years have fought for the free proliferation of firearms throughout the U.S., perhaps subconsciously imagining they were only arming themselves. But a shooting incident in... Read more |
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Sara Mersha, Carol Schachet Leaving Paris for All The Wrong Reasons The announcement by Donald Trump that that United States intends to ignore the non-binding Paris Climate Agreement, with the intention to renegotiate it to foist his America First policy on the rest... Read more |
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Bob Burnett When Will Trump Lose His Base? After the Trump White House careened through another terrible week, Washington, DC insiders wonder how long Trump can survive. The answer is: as long as he holds his base. Trump and his voters are... Read more |
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Amber Halbert Paid Leave Should Value All Care and All Families I worked in the service industry for many years. Five years ago when my son was born, I had a C-section and was allowed 6 weeks to heal. The time was unpaid. I had some complications but work put a... Read more |
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Kathy Kelly Feed the Hungry, Treat the Sick: A Crucial Training On June 15, 2017, the New York Times reported that the government of Saudi Arabia aims to ease the concerns of some U.S. legislators over U.S. weapon sales to Saudi Arabia. The Saudis plan to engage... Read more |
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Richard Eskow Resistance in a Time of Gunfire The smell of gun smoke had net yet lifted from an Alexandria baseball field when the calls for unity began. “An attack on one of us is an attack on all of us,” said House Speaker Paul Ryan. “You’re... Read more |
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Kenneth Peres Wrong Way Economics: Trump's Roadmap for Corporate Domination President Trump has been engaged in a giant bait and switch scheme: he is using the rhetoric of America First to cover-up policies that put Wall Street and Global Corporations First. Trump’s rhetoric... Read more |
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Lindy Hern The Power of Personal Connections in the Dark Age of Trump Sitting in my relatively new home in Hawai’i in January of 2017, I’m watching Nina Turner, past state-senator in Ohio and current progressive leader, speak to hundreds of single-payer activists at... Read more |
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Jake Johnston Miami Conference Signals Further Militarization of US Policy in Central America In a high-level meeting Friday, the presidents of Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador will discuss the region’s security with American and Mexican officials. Innocuous enough, you may think. But part... Read more |
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Michael Winship 'Stonewall' Sessions Leads the Charge Of the Trump Brigade US Attorney General Jefferson Beauregard Sessions spent Tuesday afternoon up on Capitol Hill trying out his new one-man show based on Margaret Mitchell’s Gone with the Wind . In performance before... Read more |
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Ken Kimmell If the Feds Won't Face Climate Change, the Region Can President Trump’s disgraceful decision to withdraw the United States from the Paris climate agreement has an unintended silver lining — within days of the announcement, a large and growing group of... Read more |
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John Nichols A Progressive Electoral Wave Is Sweeping the Country W ith a clenched fist held high and the promise of a “movement of the people,” Chokwe Antar Lumumba asked the voters of Jackson, Mississippi, to elect him as their mayor in a race he pledged would... Read more |
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Steven Harper Obstruction of Justice: Seeing the Forest and the Trees The legal principles are straightforward. Anyone who corruptly endeavors to influence, obstruct or impede a federal investigation or judicial process commits a felony. And no person is above the law... Read more |
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Adam Johnson Media Help Republicans Gut Obamacare Behind Closed Doors Senate Republicans have been quietly working to eliminate Obamacare while avoiding media attention—and major papers and television news are playing along. "The moves being made now in almost total... Read more |
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John Atcheson Power or Principles: How the Establishment Branch of the Democratic Party Is Choosing to Lose Both "The Democratic Party must finally understand which side it is on …" —Sen. Bernie Sanders addressing The People's Summit There’s a war on for the soul of the Democratic Party. On one side are the... Read more |
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Karen Greenberg A Planet's Future Threatened by the Fate of Its Children “This is a war against normal life.” So said CNN correspondent Clarissa Ward, describing the situation at this moment in Syria, as well as in other parts of the Middle East. It was one of those... Read more |
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Liz Ryan Murray What They Want to Hide Tells You Who They Are The Treasury Department has released their report on financial regulations they want to scrap. Spoiler alert: the Wall Street sharpies who Trump put in charge of our economy, who made fortunes on... Read more |
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Amy Goodman, Denis Moynihan White House for Sale: Emoluments, Corruption and Donald Trump “Emolument” is a word few people used, or even knew, until Donald Trump assumed the presidency. Now, it’s being bandied about the Beltway on a daily basis, and is at the heart of several lawsuits... Read more |
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Robert C. Koehler Uprooting the N-Word The word, inappropriately uttered, has the news value of a bullet fired off at the mall. One word. It’s the ticking time bomb of American history. It pulsates with paradox. I want to take a moment to... Read more |
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Conn Hallinan The Long Term Threat to Europe Isn’t Le Pen. It’s Capitalism. The good news out of Europe is that Marine Le Pen’s neo-Nazi National Front took a beating in the May 7 French presidential election. The bad news is that the program of the winner, Emmanuel Macron,... Read more |
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Evan Popp Democrats Don’t Have a Progressive Foreign Policy Vision. And They Need One Former President Barack Obama once articulated his vision of foreign policy as not doing “stupid shit.” By this he meant not putting boots on the ground in long-term, unwinnable wars. What this... Read more |
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Katrina vanden Heuvel The GOP Is Working Stealthily to Shred Health and Financial Protections for Ordinary Americans The bars opened early in Washington and elsewhere last Thursday, as more than 19 million Americans tuned in when the networks and cable news channels carried live former FBI director James B. Comey’s... Read more |
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Richard Eskow Cuomo Wants to Privatize Penn Station; That’s a Bad Republican Idea New Yorkers face a “ summer of hell ” as Governors Andrew Cuomo and Chris Christie seek to hand over the city’s historic Penn Station to private investors. This “hell” is the result of our leaders’ “... Read more |
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Jim Hightower The GOP Will Free You from Having Health Care When I think of freedom, I think of it in positive, aspirational terms — our First Amendment freedoms, for example, or FDR's "Four freedoms" or the uplifting songs of freedom sung by oppressed people... Read more |
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Brett Max Kaufman The US Intelligence Community Can Share Your Personal Information With Other Governments, and We’re Demanding Answers While the ACLU’s focus on foreign intelligence surveillance typically centers on the U.S. government’s National Security Agency, intelligence collection actually operates on a global scale. Our... Read more |
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Richard Eskow The Koch Brothers & Trump: The Men Who Sold the World When he withdrew from the Paris climate agreement, Donald Trump gave a speech so filled with falsehoods that it triggered detailed rebuttals by publications ranging from Politifact to Scientific... Read more |
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Audrey Juarez A Year After Pulse, We Are More Than Survivors I still remember the metallic taste in my mouth when I first heard about the Pulse night club shooting. I was sitting on my couch, hung over from DC Pride, scrolling through Twitter. My whole feed... Read more |
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Tom Engelhardt America Last: Will Trump Set a Record for the History Books? In its own inside-out, upside-down way, it’s almost wondrous to behold. As befits our president’s wildest dreams, it may even prove to be a record for the ages, one for the history books. He was,... Read more |
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Shaun King Every Democrat in America Should Support Medicare for All In a recent poll from the health insurance industry, only 8% of Americans actually want the United States Senate to pass the terrible Trumpcare bill, also known as the Affordable Health Care Act,... Read more |
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John Nichols An Article of Impeachment Based on Trump’s Obstruction of Justice Is Now Circulating in the House ongress has sufficient grounds to hold President Trump to account for obstruction of justice. The proper means for holding him to account is an impeachment process , one that is informed by lessons... Read more |
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Marty Lederman Why Trump Can’t (Lawfully) Fire Mueller There’s been a great deal of noise from some of the President’s confidants over the past 48 hours suggesting that he might (try to) remove Special Counsel Robert Mueller. Most alarmingly, Trump... Read more |
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Thomas S. Harrington Total Surprise! People Love the Left's Ideas for Progress I just can't believe what happened in the British elections. I can't get over the fact that that when a politician with real convictions honed over 40 years of political life—generous and forward-... Read more |
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Betsy Hartmann Trump’s Apocalypse Has Been a Long Time Coming As the first-year anniversary passes of Omar Mateen's deadly attack on the gay Pulse night club in Orlando, it's worth remembering Donald Trump's apocalyptic response. Out on the campaign trail, he... Read more |
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Robert Naiman Tuesday: A Senate Roll Call on Saudi Arabia's War and Yemen's Famine With the Senate, it's always hard to know for sure when a vote will be. But the latest reports are that a Senate vote on Trump's Saudi arms deal will happen after 2pm ET Tuesday. This vote is a... Read more |
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Peter Dreier Fifty Years Ago, the Supreme Court Knocked Down Bans on Interracial Marriage. How Have Things Changed Since Then? Should we allow states to decide whether black Americans may marry white Americans? Today, such an idea seems absurd. Most Americans believe that states shouldn't be permitted to trample on the basic... Read more |
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David Schwenk People's Summit Vows to Transform Resistance into Power Progressive organizers, activists, and politicians gathered this weekend in Chicago for the Second Annual People's Summit and delivered an emphatic message to the Democratic Party that lost to Donald... Read more |
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Medea Benjamin Draft Bernie? Democratic Party Takeover? Strategic Concerns Paramount at People's Summit Even if you attended the 4,000-strong Peoples Summit in Chicago on June 9-11 organized by folks from the Bernie Sanders campaign and National Nurses United (NNU), you might have missed the most... Read more |
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Michael T. Klare Battle for the Future: Trump's Dystopian Vision vs. Push for Brave Green World That Donald Trump is a grand disruptor when it comes to international affairs is now a commonplace observation in the establishment media. By snubbing NATO and withdrawing from the Paris climate... Read more |
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Chris Hedges The Age of Anger The nihilism and rage sweeping across the globe are not generated by warped ideologies or medieval religious beliefs. These destructive forces have their roots in the obliterating of social, cultural... Read more |
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Paul Buchheit Now Just Five Men Own Almost as Much Wealth as Half the World's Population Last year it was 8 men , then down to 6 , and now almost 5. While Americans fixate on Trump, the super-rich are absconding with our wealth, and the plague of inequality continues to grow. An analysis... Read more |
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Tony Norman The Gospel According to Donald Trump On Thursday, former FBI Director James Comey testified before the Senate Intelligence Committee and said out loud what a majority of Americans concluded a long time ago — that President Donald J... Read more |
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Tom Steyer Republicans Set A Standard For Impeachment — And Trump Has Met It Former FBI Director James Comey’s explosive testimony before the Senate Intelligence Committee began with an unambiguous declaration that the president of the United States lied about his firing. He... Read more |
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Linda McQuaig NAFTA’s Dirty Secret: It Lets U.S. Control Canada's Oil In the wake of Donald Trump’s fiery threats to end the trade deal between the U.S., Canada and Mexico, the subject of NAFTA has become much more interesting to Canadians than before, when it mostly... Read more |
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Stephen Kinzer Saudi Arabia is Destabilizing the World Just a few months ago, the governor of Indonesia’s largest city, Jakarta, seemed headed for easy re-election despite the fact that he is a Christian in a mostly Muslim country. Suddenly everything... Read more |