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Donald Trump’s enthusiastic support for Benjamin Netanyahu right before Israel’s elections throws the spotlight on a stark moral double standard that runs through Western politics.Read More »Trump, Epstein and Netanyahu: The Politics of Selective Morality

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  By Ketty L.   There’s something deeply unsettling about using secularism as an excuse to police what women wear. Telling a woman how sheRead More »Azerbaijan’s Hijab Ban: The Hypocrisy of Secularism

  By Ketty L.   Electoral politics in America have a way of dragging the country’s biggest cultural and partisan fears out into the open.Read More »From Michigan to Washington: The Politics of Exclusion

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  By Ketty L.   There’s something striking about watching the old guard of nation state power sit down across the table from the newRead More »Democracy vs. the Algorithm

  By Ketty L.   Political promises always seem to hit a wall when faced with the raw reality of social division. In the UK,Read More »Britain’s Divided Future: Growth Without Inclusion

  By Ketty L.   High gas prices have once again forced American families to face an old debate about U.S. strategy in the MiddleRead More »Israel’s Wars: America Pays the Price

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