Holy Week Demands a Choice

Holy Week Demands a Choice

As 224,000,000 Christians in the United States enter Holy Week, a question echoes through the streets of ancient Jerusalem and Main Street U.S.A. Pontius Pilate posed the question after religious leaders accused him of showing empathy and compassion towards Jesus. The...
Stopping the American Purge

Stopping the American Purge

Turkish national Rumeysa Ozturk planned to meet friends at an Iftar dinner on Tuesday to break their Ramadan fast. Ozturk never made it. As she walked on the sidewalk in Somerville, Massachusetts, the Tufts University Ph.D. candidate was taken into custody by six...
New Attacks on SNAP Use the Same Old Playbook

New Attacks on SNAP Use the Same Old Playbook

Right on cue, the “waste, fraud and abuse” crew deploys a familiar smokescreen to distract from their corruption. Last weekend, the social media platform owned by the oligarch-in-chief was awash in posts decrying the inclusion of sugar-sweetened sodas on the list of...