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Stephen A. Cooper

May 24, 2026, 12:40 PM

Alabama’s summertime torture of Black men

What is it about the swaggering, sweltering heat of summer that stirs up so much bloodlust? By now it’s a platitude that murder and other violent crime rates rise when the weather gets hotter. And while there’s no time...

Mar 17, 2026, 8:01 PM

Bridging the Unbridgeable: A Prima Facie Case for Middle East Complexity

Different young women and men surrounded by a question mark. Flat style cartoon vector illustration.

Every period produces its own divisions — ideological, political, social — but this moment feels different: the fractures run deeper. Today, social media and journalism increasingly follow the tone set by podcasters and influencers, many of whom traffic in...

Feb 23, 2026, 11:04 AM

When Replacement Became Inevitable

If Europe made itself the future, what followed was not immediate conquest, but something subtler. When sequence becomes hierarchy, hierarchy begins to normalize replacement. In the previous column, we saw how a growing strand of European thought reframed history as linear,...

Tony D. Senatore

Jan 21, 2026, 9:57 PM

Pragmatic Activism

In America, activists are often praised by liberals and criticized by conservatives. Throughout history, activism has been regarded as subversive, disruptive, and often radical, with civil disobedience serving as its defining instrument. American history makes clear that such measures...

Jan 20, 2026, 6:15 PM

Exodus and the Legacy of MLK

How fitting it is that, in our annual cycle of Torah reading, some part of the Exodus narrative always coincides with the celebration of the life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Some call the Exodus story the “master...

Gary Rosenblatt

Jan 19, 2026, 5:42 AM

Southern discomfort: Confronting America’s racist history

Echoes of Yad Vashem: In memorializing the nameless, some of the 800 hanging monuments at The National Memorial for Peace and Justice list sites and dates of lynchings and "Unknown" for the victims whose names could not be documented. Photo: Gary Rosenblatt

With the White House trying to whitewash the past, museums of civil rights activism keep us honest, protecting the US legacy of racial violence against blacks

Moshe-Mordechai van Zuiden

Jan 19, 2026, 1:36 AM

Does Trump want Greenland because it is all white?

You never know with someone who refuses to read and gets all his news from the TV and fake news Obsessed. He must have it. It’s very odd. Especially because the U.S. has already had free military access to Greenland...

Moshe-Mordechai van Zuiden

Jan 16, 2026, 11:23 PM

Make America Greater Again

We never suspected America to be so big Trump is going after the whole world, but for profit, not to save it. He wants to make the US become Whiter and more Christian again and stop Muslim and non-White immigration and...

Moshe-Mordechai van Zuiden

Jan 8, 2026, 5:41 PM

Police violence against Ethiopian Jews is ongoing

Israel should be the least racist country in the world because we are an immigrant-majority country, and 65% are Arab – Jewish or Muslim. Israel has Jewish ‘returnees’ from every country and culture in the world. And, as a Jew-majority...

Michael Zoosman

Jan 6, 2026, 6:02 PM

Ben-Gvir’s Death Penalty Bill Would Legislate Torture in Israel

If Israeli lawmakers sign the death penalty bill that National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir is proposing, they will be enshrining Israel with the international pariah status not only of executioner, but also - by definition - of torturer. This...

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