Source: Aljazeera The 2016 presidential election in the United States may lead to a sea change in foreign policy. Each of the five main Republican and Democratic candidates have their own opinions on how to handle issues from Israel/Palestine to relations with Russia. The way the next US president […]
Source: The Guardian By Rose Hackman Ahsan Samad sits on the sofa in the living room of his small family home in Brooklyn, New York. The 30-year-old plumber leans forward […]
Source: RNS HOUSTON (RNS) For the last 12 years I have worked as an election clerk in my precinct, which has about 4,300 registered voters. I greet voters, confirm their registration status and send them to the booth. My precinct is about 4 square miles in size, so the […]
Source: RNS (Reuters) Governor Mike Pence signed a bill into law making Indiana only the second state to prohibit abortions based on a prenatal diagnosis of disabilities such as Down syndrome. The bill, which was approved by the state Republican-led legislature, bans any disability-related abortion along with terminations of pregnancy […]
Source: Time TIME columnist Abdul-Jabbar is a six-time NBA champion and league Most Valuable Player. He is also a celebrated author, filmmaker and education ambassador whose life and career are […]
The Muslim Times has the best collection to refute Islamophobia Source: Miami Herald By Leonard Pitts Jr. An open letter to American Muslims: In April 1944, a Cpl. Rupert Trimmingham […]
Source: The Guardian The second case to thrust the supreme court into a showdown over religious beliefs, contraception and Barack Obama’s signature healthcare law unfolded on Wednesday, in a tense […]
Source: Time Why hasn’t America’s economy recovered more robustly? Economists have an unsettling answer In the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, conventional wisdom among economists, business leaders, and policy […]
Source: CNN (CNN)Women with confirmed cases of the Zika virus or who have had symptoms of the virus should wait at least eight weeks after the start of their symptoms before trying to get pregnant, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Friday. Men with confirmed cases of the […]
Source: Huffington Post By Salam Al Marayati; President of the Muslim Public Affairs Council On March 9, The Huffington Post posted an article by Soorah Hassan on the growing Islamophobia […]
Source: NPR By Beenish Ahmed Beenish Ahmed is a reporter and writer. She covers international affairs forThinkProgress and is the founder of THE ALIGNIST, a new media platform that connects […]
Source: Religion News Service SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) The University of California’s regents declared on they would not tolerate anti-Semitism on campus but rejected a proposal to equate anti-Zionism with religious […]
Source: Aljazeera What’s happening to American democracy? With a populist billionaire demagogue winning support on the right, a self-declared socialist confounding US historical prejudices on the left and millions of […]
Source: The Washington Post The Republican and Democratic presidential candidates collided sharply Tuesday in the wake of the deadly terrorist attacks in Brussels, with GOP hopeful Ted Cruz calling on […]
Source: The Guardian Muslim communities are “absolutely not reporting” suspected terrorists and need to “open up to society”, Donald Trump has said in his first UK interview since launching his bid for the US presidency. Appearing on ITV’s Good Morning Britain (GMB), Trump said there was “very little assimilation” in […]
Source: Motto ‘In this public dynamic where people are increasingly getting hurt, physically and psychologically, it’s important to remember that we all can choose to act—or not act’ Donald Trump […]
Source: Salon Although someday I’d like to run for my local school board, I doubt I ever will. The single biggest factor holding me back (in my own mind) is […]
Source: Time President Barack Obama hailed “a new day” in the relations between the U.S. and Cuba on Monday as he spoke alongside Cuban President Raúl Castro following a historic bilateral meeting. “For more than half a century, the sight of a U.S. President in Havana would have been unimaginable, […]
http://www.clarionproject.org/news/intl-advertising-group-helped-whitewash-saudi-crimes# One of the world’s largest advertising firms has been accused of helping Saudi Arabia whitewash its terrible human-rights record, according to an exclusive report by the UK newspaper The Independent. Following the execution of 47 protesters in January, Saudi Foreign Minister Adel bin Ahmed Al-Jubeir took to U.S. media […]
Source: The New York Times CLAREMONT, Calif. — If you are looking for a manicured lawn and a gracious quadrangle — Gothic maybe, or redbrick with shutters on the windows […]