At Huffpo, Frank Schaeffer says he was a Republican who left the “evangelical subculture.” And he blames the Republican Party’s fall on religion: Two religions (in the broadest sense of the term) have destroyed the Republican Party: evangelical Christianity and…
At Huffpo, Frank Schaeffer says he was a Republican who left the “evangelical subculture.” And he blames the Republican Party’s fall on religion: Two religions (in the broadest sense of the term) have destroyed the Republican Party: evangelical Christianity and…
Juan Cole agrees that Obama and Netanyahu seemed uncomfortable with one another after their meeting; and that they fundamentally disagreed. And he makes this fine point about the new Palestinians-must-recognize-Israel-as-a-Jewish-state demand that has come into the Israel’s talking points: Netanyahu…
In the Columbia Journalism Review, JJ Goldberg has a thorough piece on coverage of the Israeli soldiers’ atrocities during Gaza (a story broken by Haaretz) and suggests that reader pressure may have played a role in New York Times reporter…
In the Columbia Journalism Review, JJ Goldberg has a thorough piece on coverage of the Israeli soldiers’ atrocities during Gaza (a story broken by Haaretz) and suggests that reader pressure may have played a role in New York Times reporter…
I missed this, and I was sitting right there, at AIPAC, two weeks back. But the National Iranian American Council didn’t. Congresswoman Jane Harman was talking sanctions and military action against Iran, when she said: “The Persian population in Iran…
I missed this, and I was sitting right there, at AIPAC, two weeks back. But the National Iranian American Council didn’t. Congresswoman Jane Harman was talking sanctions and military action against Iran, when she said: “The Persian population in Iran…
A Muslim friend writes: Neoconservatives always spoke of Islam as a monolithic threat from the Middle East to Pakistan, confronting democracies such as Israel and India. The slippery slide they made was from radical Islam to Islam. The Likudniks always…
A Muslim friend writes: Neoconservatives always spoke of Islam as a monolithic threat from the Middle East to Pakistan, confronting democracies such as Israel and India. The slippery slide they made was from radical Islam to Islam. The Likudniks always…