Ghosts of GOP Past and Present: The Battle for Mississippi Republicans

You may have never seen this many Asian talents in one film (or ever), and I don’t know when the next time you’ll see something like this will be.

From Italy’s fascist government before the war to its flirtation with communism in the 1980s, Italian politics has been so fluid that radical political change is almost traditional.

The Western world’s dislike of Turkish President Erdogan is growing. However, it is not stopping Muslims around the world from embracing his domestic and foreign policies.

People have the right to make decisions about their own lives but that necessarily implies they have the responsibility.

Piecemeal environmental policy, however, cannot replace coordinated national action.

They clapped and thrusted their hands into the air — small, tightly clenched fists not much different from the ones seen banging on tinted windows down south.

Making any argument about the burden of should—including the role ethics should play in science—requires the basic ability to make a value judgment, a skill firmly within the domain of philosophy.

It’s why an ordinary civilian shouting in a restaurant at the Secretary of Homeland Security, fresh off a day of ordering that migrant children be ripped from their mothers’ arms, is cast as the uncivil one, the disrupter of order.

Growing up in Pakistan, I seldom thought about the way institutions handled cases of sexual harassment.

We believe we exist to hold power accountable.

“I think a lot of my [writing] is aimed at pulling the curtain back and showing that these judges and their clerks–in addition to being great legal minds–are also people too, and are subject to all of the frailties and biases that all of us are subject to as human beings.”

“The usual idea, especially in the context you’re asking about – prisoners’ dilemmas – is to start with the maximal credible punishment right at the beginning, because the idea is that that will be the most severe threat and so will illicit the best cooperation. But in reality, everybody who’s looked at the way punishments are designed finds that the successful ones are done in a graduated way.”

If we wish to remain responsible and informed, we need to do our due diligence and begin to think critically about the news we’re consuming.

“I think in a world where it’s not a choice between the perfect and the awful, but a choice between the flawed and the terrible… if you’ve got a choice between nationalism and multiculturalism, of course you go with nationalism.“

What makes the show feel so important and so relevant is that it puts on stark display the radicality of being queer and joyful.

It is hard to be immune to Ginsburg’s cool and composed accounts of her own life, or to suppress joy at the thought of the strides she has made for women and people of color in the United States.

To deny certain spaces to Republicans because of the policies they tolerate is to say that the dream is dead, to give up entirely on even the pretense of political coexistence. Is it worth it?

“Because at the end of the day, you're stuck with yourself, and long after the album kind of fades away from people's spotlight, you still want to be able to be true to yourself and to your audience. They're the ones that are gonna stick with you through thick and thin.”

Selective humanitarianism is inherently unhumanitarian.

For a long time, economists seemed to agree with the implicit assumption of your question that we should minimize the ethical judgements we make. I’m not sure that’s a universal position anymore.

In a country smothered by self-loathing, Salah’s distinction on the pitch and decency off of it is nothing less than oxygen.

“The end of the Cold War could not have happened as it did without the resurgence, the renewal, the revitalization of the United States. And I argue that all three of those figures – Milton Friedman, Ronald Reagan, and Bill Buckley – were indispensable to that.”

Mr. Obama, we adore and admire what you stand for, but we hold you morally accountable for what you have done.

They own their data because they own their relationship. And hence then they can own their own power.

Like the Patriots in Lexington and Concord, the American people must remain diligently disposed, ensuring that their existence is not invalidated, endangered, at the whim of a conservative-controlled court.

While a conservative justice being swiftly appointed is hard to stomach, the sentiment among conservatives that they have shored up all three branches of government might be exactly what democrats need to thrive in the midterms.

Victims realized it was never going to heal them.

It is obvious—perhaps painstakingly—that Kanye tries to find subversion in his art by forcing controversy upon his listeners.

"'And so I asked her, 'What is like the opposite, what is the most grassroots legalization bill that’s ever been written?' And she said 'Honestly, there isn’t one.' And then we were like, 'okay, in that case, let’s write one.'"

"With the proper branding, democratic socialists can have significant appeal in a wide array of districts. So while these radicals may not be the future of the Democratic Party, they’re definitely capable of throwing their weight around."