Israel’s new nation-state law restates the obvious
Early last Thursday, July 19, while most Israelis were sleeping, Israel’s right-wing coalition government narrowly passed a highly controversial law that had been years in the making. The so-called “nation-state law” legally enshrines Israel’s Jewish character and makes it one of the state’s guiding judicial principles, akin to a constitutional amendment in the United States. The new […]
Sacha Baron Cohen made an Arizona town seem racist. The Kingman mayor is taking it seriously.
The city of Kingman, Ariz., wants you to know about its dazzling history along Route 66, the weekly farmers market with local produce and that its residents are not uniformly racist. Kingman became the latest target for Sacha Baron Cohen’s social satire program “Who Is America?” on Showtime after a Sunday segment featured Cohen, posing as a […]
Missouri man gets 2 years for hate crimes directed at mosque
AUGUSTA, Ga. (AP) _ A Missouri man who pleaded guilty to making threatening phone calls to a Georgia mosque has been sentenced to two years in prison. In a news release Tuesday, federal prosecutors said 50-year-old Preston Q. Howard, of Wright City, made numerous calls last year to the Islamic Society of Augusta, during which […]
Money, politics and Justice Anthony Kennedy: Revisiting Citizens United
Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission is one of retiring U.S. Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy’s most maligned rulings. Many condemn the opinion for treating corporations as people, money as speech, and elections as commodities to be sold to the highest bidder. President Barack Obama lambasted Citizens United in a State of the Union address. During her 2016 presidential campaign, […]