How Fox News Built Donald Trump’s Presidential Campaign
Washington (CNN) Florida Sen. Marco Rubio said Friday that Donald Trump is the most vulgar person to ever run for President of the United States. “Donald Trump has been perhaps […]
Women Justices Defend Abortion Providers in Supreme Court Oral Arguments
Source: Time The Supreme Court was divided along ideological lines in oral arguments on Wednesday in what is perhaps the most important abortion case in a generation, while swing vote Anthony Kennedy appeared to question the medical consequences of changing abortion practices in Texas. The women on the Supreme Court […]
The secret history of America’s cyber war
Source: Time By Fred Kaplan On August 9, 2013, a hot, humid Friday, shortly after three in the afternoon, the laziest hour in the dreariest month for news in the […]
Mitt Romney speech slamming Donald Trump
The following is the full text of the speech delivered on Thursday by former Massachusetts Governor and 2012 Republican nominee for U.S. president Mitt Romney to the Institute of Politics […]
Brokered Convention: The Final Nightmare for Trump
Trump may win most primaries and may have the most delegates, but, if he does not end up with a majority of delegates, then he is likely to loose in […]
R.I.P. religious right, and other Super Tuesday takeaways
Source: CNN (CNN)Was it a coming-out party for atheists or a funeral dirge for the religious right? In an election year full of questions, Super Tuesday raised a few more, as voters in 12 states went to the polls and the GOP’s Donald Trump and Democrats’ Hillary Clinton emerged as […]
Beware: Exploding Politics
Source: The New York Times By Thomas L. Friedman When the U.S. military trains fighter pilots, it uses a concept called the OODA loop. It stands for observe, orient, decide, act. The idea is that if your ability to observe, orient, decide and act in a dogfight at 30,000 feet […]
A Call to Action: Curing Islam’s American Crisis
Source: Huffington Post By EHAB AL SHIHABI Media Advisor and Senior Fellow (politics, media and policy) The opinion expressed here are his and do not reflect those of his employer The […]
How Muslim women are winning the 2016 campaign
Source: CNN (CNN)This presidential election season we’ve paid much attention to the anti-Muslim ideas some presidential candidates like Donald Trump spew — and rightfully so. Most political candidates would never dare make such utterances about any other religious minority group. Still, in the midst of the vitriol and alarming political rhetoric, […]
Why the Nation of Islam is praising Donald Trump
Source: The Washington Post They may not hold the same views on race, but even black and white extremists sometimes agree. Louis Farrakhan, leader of the Nation of Islam, praised Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump on Saturday for, as Farrakhan put it, not accepting money from the Jewish community — comments delivered just […]
How Muslim women are winning the 2016 campaign
CNN This presidential election season we’ve paid much attention to the anti-Muslim ideas some presidential candidates like Donald Trump spew — and rightfully so. Most political candidates would never dare […]
Trump’s rhetoric on Muslims plays well with fans, but horrifies others
Source: The Washington Post At a rally in southwest Virginia on Monday, Republican front-runner Donald Trump again told an apocryphal story about a general killing Muslim terrorists with bullets dipped […]
Sanders keeps his Judaism in the background, irking US Jews
Source: Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — As Bernie Sanders headed toward victory in New Hampshire, pundits noted the barrier he was about to break: Sanders would become the first […]
Meet the ‘Nones,’ the Democratic Party’s biggest faith constituency
Source: The Washington Post Joe Stone is part of an enormous but invisible voting constituency. A “troubled atheist,” the retired Virginia accountant calls himself spiritual, celebrates Christmas and defines religious […]
What If America Looked Like Dearborn, Michigan?
Source: Huffington Post By Brian Stone; LGBT advocate, U.S. Navy Veteran and Dearborn, Mich. resident In this small town of a hundred-thousand residents, folks are used to being accused of […]
High Stakes for Supreme Court Arguments on Abortion Case
Source: Time Three years ago, Wendy Davis gained national attention during an 11-hour filibuster of one of the toughest abortion bills to come to the Senate floor: it would ban […]
Hillary Clinton’s entire Super Tuesday speech
Source of the transcript: Vox You know all across our country today Democrats voted to break down barriers so we can all rise together. I am so delighted to be […]
Why the right hates American history
Source: Salon By THOM HARTMANN, ALTERNET Sure, the war on education helps Republican lawmakers destroy unions and slash government spending, but it’s our history of progressive change that makes Conservatives hate […]
Huffington Post is tracking Islamophobic incidents across the U.S. throughout 2016
Epigraph: Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God. (Matthew 5:9) The Muslim Times has the most extensive collection to tackle Islamophobia After last year’s terror […]
This Is How March Became Women’s History Month
Source: Time “Women’s history is women’s right” Many things have come to womankind surprisingly recently: The right to vote. The right to own property. And, perhaps less surprisingly, the existence […]