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01, 2018
Debate: Who’s Keeping Birtherism Alive?
Alex Knepper and Cinzia Croce from New American Perspective debate who is responsible for the continued existence of Birtherism in American
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01, 2018
Trump’s Racist Comments on Africa Obfuscate a Domestic Political Struggle in America
Presidents Trump’s racist comments on Africa obfuscate a deeper political struggle in America. Africa finds itself at the center of a tricky political play by an American president desperate to consolidate his base via blatantly racist comments.
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01, 2018
Israel’s Outreach in Africa Continues at the Kenyan President’s Inauguration
By: David O. Monda The presence of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at festivities surrounding the inauguration of President Uhuru
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12, 2017
Canada’s Transgender Rights Bill is incoherent—and that’s a concern
By: Hendrik van der Breggen Canada’s Bill C16, a.k.a. Transgender Rights Bill, attempts to add gender identity and expression to
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12, 2017
The Grand Trumpeter
He came to the United States of America at a time quite different than that of the Catholic Crisis which Dostoevsky had observed in Spain. The prevailing perversion of many Americans was, making use of their democracy as a godly tool, purporting to protect their way of life they viewed as threatened by forces both from without and within by demonizing and pre-judging those forces. The forces being Bad Hombres who immigrate illegally to the country bringing with them crime and drug addiction (not to mention infidels from Muslim nations that want to kill all Americans), and loose laws by tolerant administrations that allowed for morally degenerate groups like homosexuals, transsexuals, and others to claim better or near equal footing in business and government relations.
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12, 2017
Why Yoweri Museveni’s Retirement is Key to Uganda’s Democratization
By: David O. Monda Uganda is romantically idealized as the Pearl of Africa. The reality is that in the field
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12, 2017
Why Doug Jones Matters
To see why Doug Jones really matters, you have to understand what he's running against. And that means revisiting the 1960s, when southern politics realigned, creating the worldview in which Roy Moore operates.
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11, 2017
On Forcing Your Religion via Canada’s Transgender Rights Bill
By using the force of law to require others to use preferred pronouns when they disagree with those pronouns, you are in effect pushing your religion onto those others.
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08, 2017
Right to Silence in the Age of Aadhaar
Unless the right to silence comes of age and accommodates the technological challenges posed by biometric ID systems, the lacuna in the law which distinguishes between password and fingerprint locks can be exploited to render the fundamental right to silence -- which is often the last bastion of civil society -- an abortive ideal.
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08, 2017
Trump’s Banality of Evil
By: Jared Marcel Pollen What does fascism smell like? It’s a question the late Christopher Hitchens used to ask, and