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Donald Trump was and is a lazy, ignorant narcissist. The Florida governor is a smart, motivated, very right-wing Catholic who wants to remake America as he imagines God wants it to be. Is this what the MAGA controlled GOP has come to?

How authentic protest movements like the one in Iran can be hijacked by a funded opposition that builds momentum for war and military intervention.

Bahareh Hedayati, an Iranian women’s rights and human rights activist who has been arrested and imprisoned several times, was last arrested on October 11 amid the protests that started after the death of Mahsa Amini in the custody of morality police

The bill headed to Biden’s desk includes a religious exemption that sets a troublesome precedent, not only for LGBTQ rights but possibly for all legislation.

Sen. Raphael Warnock's Complete Reelection Victory Speech. Capitalism Will Eat Democracy — Unless We Speak Up | Yanis Varoufakis. Angela Davis Speaks After Attempted Blacklisting. Women Talking | Movie. Love Under Occupation.

Less than half of US Jews had positive feelings for Mr. Netanyahu, according to a Pew Research Center study last year. Younger Jews, may not feel much connection with Israel at all - 27 percent between 18 and 29 said Israel was not important .....

Iran's Women-Life-Freedom is a movement that has changed the political culture of defiance and expressions of dissent. Its radical creativity and imaginative forms of collective action, has opened the possibility of thinking of politics anew.

Americans who don't believe in God are a fast-growing and left-leaning force in politics – and they’re typically even more politically active than white evangelicals.

What the current Iranian anti-Islamist national uprising, the Iranian feminist Revolution of 2022, has thus far demonstrated is that the power of the reactionary clergy over the consciousness of Iranian society with its dark spell after centuries has finally been broken en masse – and for the good. Whatever the outcome of current events – whether the regime falls in short order or over a protracted period – there is no going back.