When Richard Nixon entered the White House in January 1969, he inherited a war in Southeast Asia, multiple foreign crises, and domestic political turmoil in the form of race riots and antiwar protests. China was in the midst of the…
It was just another day on the Ukrainian front. Russian shells rained down on Nikopol, the U.S. announced its determination that Russian President Vladimir Putin wasn’t planning on launching nuclear weapons for at least the foreseeable future, and CNN dutifully…
“These years are still the years of my prime. It is important to recognize the years of one’s prime, always remember that.” – Jean Brodie, a girls’ school teacher, in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1961) by Muriel Spark…
Almost 30 years ago, over 800,000 people were brutally murdered in just 100 days in a tiny country in the middle of Africa. The global media and the international community largely ignored the event as it was occurring, refusing to…
The unetaneh tokef prayer on Rosh Hashanah mentions the unpredictable inevitable human condition, as the book of life is opened, to be filled in over the coming days with the judgment of who will come to his timely end, and…
Cruel season, weather wise, and as sometimes happens, we are tempted to consider our comparative luck in relation to other countries. While surely American concerns should focus first on what we can and must do at home in response to…
Today’s hyperpartisan and frequently negative news cycle ignores one significant and uplifting story: the precipitous decline of global inequality. It’s a subject that deserves our attention, for it reveals the power of markets, trade, and human ingenuity to lift up…
The G20 Summit held in New Delhi on Sept. 9 and 10 was, from the perspective and needs of the West, a lot of sound and light signifying not very much. Some Western observers might call it a super-sized nothing burger…
A delegation of nine imams from across the United States recently visited Israel on an interfaith mission organized by the nonprofit Sharaka (meaning “partnership” in Arabic). The imams were led by Dr. Talib Shareef, the head imam of Masjid Muhammad…
