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The Next Strait Crisis?
Keep your eyes on the Bab el-Mandeb, or Strait of Tears, the narrow strait at the southern tip of the Arabian Peninsula.
Twenty-five percent of the world’s container shipping passes through…
Every Vote Counts Trivia Night – Columbus
I will never forget a college student named Matt who worked with me part-time shortly before the 9/11 terrorist attacks. One day, just for fun, I asked him if he could name the five states that…
A Dream Deferred, But Still Alive
On March 1, 1945, only six weeks before his death, U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt delivered an address to Congress that pointed toward a sweeping transformation of international relations.…
Action Alerts
Friday, July 17, 2026 - 11:45am
On the plaza in front of the Ohio State Capitol
This Saturday, July 18, will mark EIGHT YEARS since the last execution in Ohio.
To mark this occasion and add to the mix of available colorful images and video used by the media covering this issue, please join with Ohioans to Stop Executions, Death Penalty Action and others.
We'll make brief statements, offer prayer, and everyone can participate in tolling our bell 56 times to symbolically "note the 56 times Ohio fell short of our highest ideals by unnecessarily killing prisoners." …
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The Performative Politics of the Fifth Estate
We are witnessing the latest iteration of a tired, dark performance. In the 1830s, Thomas "Daddy" Rice—the so-called "Father of Minstrelsy"—popularized a stage persona that relied on mockery, exaggerated buffoonery, and a calculated distortion of…
A Muslim Man Stabbed 15 Times at a Utah Mall
Police at Valley Fair Mall, outside Salt Lake City, Utah, said that Peter Michael Larsen approached a kiosk employee, asked about his religion, and then repeatedly stabbed him after learning he was Muslim. According to police and court documents…
The Not-So-Secret Israeli Strategy: This is the Real Gaza Plan
Here is the bottom line: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has no intention of leaving Gaza, either before Israel’s general elections—likely to be held in October—or after. Conceding an inch from the roughly 70 percent of the…
Superman vs. Josh Fox
Superman could leap a tall building in a single bound. That ain’t nothing compared to Josh Fox. Fox created the anti-fracking movement in a single movie, Gasland.
Until Josh showed up in Pennsylvania with a little point-and-…