By Iftikhar Gilani ANKARA – Against most of the predictions, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan managed to win another five-year term in office after defeating the opposition’s joint candidate Kemal Kilicdaroglu convincingly by a margin of 2.2 million votes on Sunday. In the runoff elections, Erdogan got 52.15% votes, while his...
Refugees and immigrants are one of the reasons that the U.S. is the only western country to count among the top 10 populous countries in the world. However, the population grew at the slowest rate in the U.S. in 2021 since the country’s founding. Reduced refugee and immigration intake has much to do with it. Even though the […]
by Cathy Breen October 14, 2022 I was completely taken in by her as she gently tried to turn the great cube at Astor Place on her way to Washington Square park. Surrounded by many others, she had all of us mesmerized by her big eyes, expressive gestures, bending toward and, somehow, embracing each person. […]
In 2018, Chief Justice John Roberts said, “We do not have Obama judges or Trump judges, Bush judges or Clinton judges.” This proved to be true following the 2020 presidential election, when judges appointed by Democratic and Republican Presidents, including Trump appointees, acted at a historic moment to reject the dozens of meritl...
The Israeli military issued a brazen whitewash of its killing of Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh and its shooting of her colleague Al Jazeera producer Ali al-Samoudi, on May 11 of this year. Using weasel words, the report admitted that it was “likely” that an Israeli sniper shot her dead. Since extensive video and...
Close your eyes and try to envision the two wolves. Imagine yourself as a terrified child. I think that helps bring the myth to life…this myth, said to be Cherokee, of humanity’s two choices. The wolves are engaged in a vicious fight. The wise grandfather explains to the child that the two wolves are inside all of […]
It garnered little notice, but New Zealand, half a world away from the events of January 6th, has designated the Proud Boys as a terrorist organization, making it “illegal . . . to fund, recruit or participate in the groups, and obligating authorities to take action against them.” But the government that the Proud Boys helped nearl...
A year has now passed since the tumultuous U.S. withdrawal from decades of war and occupation in Afghanistan. With the Taliban functionally in charge, the country faces a deteriorating humanitarian crisis and economic collapse. But instead of taking action to promote stability and reinvigorate the economy, the U.S. has made it worse and penali...
Five years ago this month, white supremacists murdered Heather Heyer in Charlottesville, Virginia, spurring Joe Biden to run for president and later sign a bill named after Heather to fight hate crimes. Five years ago this month, Hurricane Harvey devastated Texas and Louisiana, and Congress responded with a $15 billion relief bill. And five ...
President Biden and the Democrats are celebrating the passage of the Inflation Reduction Act, a stripped-down version of the Build Back Better agenda. The new bill will help reduce inflation, address climate change, and ease economic hardship—a little, over time, and with conditions. But that’s still a big deal. This smaller yet still sw...
