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Racism works

By Daniel Kushner • Jun 23rd, 2009 • Category: The Blog

Over the last weeks, more than 100 Romanians, primarily Roma, have been receiving death threats, including that one child’s throat would be slit, seeing their doors and windows assaulted, fearing for their lives. When neighbors protested for their safety, bottles were thrown at them. When the Roma hid in a church, the church was attacked. [...]



Laura Secor on a Second Iranian Revolution

By Daniel Kushner • Jun 16th, 2009 • Category: The Blog

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the culture of the organized opposition under the Islamic Republic has tended to remain cautious and moderate. Many of the protesters of recent days are not calling for an end to the Islamic Republic. They are calling [...]



Leaderless Marchers

By Daniel Kushner • Jun 16th, 2009 • Category: The Blog

Yesterday, when reports came out suggesting that the Iranian Basiji militia would be given live ammunition, opposition candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi felt that the risks had grown too great, and called for the protest to not occur. Though as we found out by the shooting of the Basiji of at least one protester, those rumors [...]



Staying in the Street

By Daniel Kushner • Jun 15th, 2009 • Category: The Blog

Early this morning, there were unconfirmed reports that the Iranian militia would be given live ammunition, rumors that seem to have been confirmed by the snipers shooting and killing a protester. After the previous day’s violence, when dozens were beaten by baton-wielding motorcyclists, and students were shot in their dormitories, organizing a mass-protest seemed too [...]



Protesting everywhere

By Daniel Kushner • Jun 15th, 2009 • Category: The Blog

Tens, and possibly hundreds

of thousands of protesters are in the center of Tehran in opposition to the government’s declaration that Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was re-elected. Leading opposition candidate, Mir Hussein Mousavi, as well as fellow opposition candidate Mehdi Karoubi, are expected to appear. Le [...]



Tweeting Heroism

By Daniel Kushner • Jun 15th, 2009 • Category: The Blog

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When the election results from Iran first came out, and the Interior Ministry told the world that the polls were wrong, that Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was still popular, and that he would remain President, there were supposed to be experts explaining what had happened. [...]



Why Obama Is Moving on Immigration

By Daniel Kushner • Jun 15th, 2009 • Category: Domestic

The White House appears ready to move on immigration, not simply for policy reasons, or to add support among liberals and Latinos, but also to gain business support.



Who'll take over for Tim Kaine?

By Daniel Kushner • Jun 14th, 2009 • Category: The Blog

It’s a little remarkable how few Virginia Democrats care whom their next nominee for Governor will be. In what was once a solidly Republican state, the Democrats have managed to pull off a remarkable winning streak, keeping the Governor’s mansion for the last 8 years, having both of the Senate seats, and even voting for [...]



Corey Booker's first poll

By Daniel Kushner • Jun 8th, 2009 • Category: The Blog

The Democratic Mayor of Newark received a significant amount of praise for his handling of some of the city’s debilitating problems, but nobody thought he’d have a chance to go for higher office so soon. A Farleigh Dickinson poll of NJ voters, however, is showing incumbent Democratic Governor Jon Corzine with dangerously low levels of [...]



Talmudic Tractates

By Daniel Kushner • May 28th, 2009 • Category: The Blog

In Eric Alterman’s brief piece about the deficiencies of some pro-Israel commentators in the US, the jingoism of their prose and the immaturity of their arguments, he ends with his harshest criticism of the Jewish intellectuals – they are un-Talmudic.
The word, Talmudic, in English, is foreign to me. From about [...]