Why Saudi Arabia is Waging a War on Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib

Mohammad H. Fadel Middle East Eye
Ilhan Omar (l), and Rashida Tlaib, the first Muslim women elected to the US Congress.
The willingness of Saudi Arabia and its Arab allies to embrace American Islamophobia in their attacks on two progressive Muslim-American women, and others, reveals the deep schism between the autocracies of the Arab world and their expatriates.

Georgia Denies Migrants Equal Access to Higher Education

Laura Emiko Soltis and Azadeh Shahshahani The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Atlanta Journal-Constitution Op-Ed asks Georgia to reconsider the educational limits it places on undocumented students. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights declares all people everywhere have certain inalienable rights - but not in Georgia.

6 Times the Environment Won in 2018

Zoya Teirstein Grist
Folks across the country, from local city leaders to state attorneys general, are out there chipping away at the biggest existential threat of our time. And they’re actually getting somewhere. Here’s proof.

How does it end?

Marge Piercy Monthly Review
The award-winning poet Marge Piercy decries America’s refugee policies that would make an earlier poet, Emma Lazarus, weep.

Springsteen on Broadway

The critically acclaimed, three times extended, Broadway phenomenon makes its global debut on Netflix.

2018 Lesson: 'Nothing Matters' Is Bogus

In the Trump era, everyone from comedians to pundits have claimed that “nothing matters”. MSNBC anchor Ari Melber runs through an exhaustive list of times when Trump has been defeated or stopped by facts and reporting. “In a democracy, things matter when we make them matter.”