Trump v. Islam

Posted by on Apr 28, 2017 in Articles, Featured, Islamophobia | 0 comments Donald Trump rode to power on a wave of fear. During his presidential campaign, he portrayed terrorists, immigrants, the Chinese government and many other people and entities as threats to America. But nothing proved more powerful as a mobilizing force than his anti-Islamic pronouncements. Other presidential candidates were careful to distinguish between what they considered to be radical...
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Globalism of the One Percent

Posted by on Feb 22, 2017 in Articles, Featured, US Foreign Policy | 0 comments Donald Trump is a worldly fellow. He travels the globe on his private jet. He’s married to a Slovene and divorced from a Czech. He doesn’t speak any other languages, but hey, he’s an American, so monolingualism is his birthright. His fortune depends in large part on the global economy. He has business interests in nearly two-dozen countries on four continents. Many of the products anointed...
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What Europe Can Teach Us About Trump

Posted by on Dec 5, 2016 in Articles, Eastern Europe, Europe, Featured | 0 comments Donald Trump might seem like a uniquely American phenomenon. The shape-shifting billionaire huckster reinvented himself first as a TV personality and then as a maverick populist politician. He rode to power on patriotic slogans – Make America Great Again – and tailored his policy prescriptions to specific American constituencies like West Virginia coal miners and Michigan factory workers. He...
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The Death of the International Community

Posted by on Nov 26, 2016 in Articles, Featured, US Foreign Policy | 0 comments The election of Donald Trump is not only a surprise for many American citizens. It’s a shock to the international community. In fact, the shock might be so severe that it will be the death of the international community. What has happened in the United States is not unprecedented. But, as with most things to do with America, the tragedy is on a bigger scale. It was one thing for Hungary and...
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The Art of Dissidence and Diplomacy

Posted by on Feb 24, 2016 in Art, Articles, Featured | 0 comments The position of the body is the same. The figure is prone on the beach, near the water’s edge. The head is face down in the sand, and the face is just visible. One arm is close to the body, palm upward. The knees are bent, the feet together. This is not Alan Kurdi (initially misreported as Aylan), the three-year-old Syrian child whose body washed up on shore in Turkey. It is the Chinese artist...
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