After 9/11, Maryam Keshavarz realised she wanted to change the way Muslims were portrayed in the US media. She explains why she drew on her childhood for her award-winning new movieWhen Maryam Keshavarz was a young girl growing up in New York City in the 1980s, she would spend her summer holidays travelling to Iran, from where her parents had migrated. As well as her luggage, she would fly with small plastic bags taped to her body containing objects she would smuggle into and out of Iran.The...
Last year, while organizing a global democracy forum in Mexico, a member of that country’s national electoral court requested I add a speaker to our program: an American judge who was an expert in how elections work. First, I contacted election lawyers, who told me they knew of no judges with such expertise. Then I called judges, eight leading U.S. jurists in all. Among this diverse group of judges were Republicans and Democrats, those who work at the state level and the federal level, in...
If there were any doubts that Beyoncé is serious about going country, the cover art for her upcoming album “Cowboy Carter" should dispel them. Side-saddle on a white stallion, American flag in hand, decked out in patriotic Evel Knievel finery: She's a genuine sweetheart of the rodeo. It may be cool to be country these days — Post Malone is another artist crossing over — but Texas-born Beyonce has it in her DNA. If you've heard her fantastic “Texas Hold 'Em” — which recently made Bey the...
The United States is facing a number of serious issues that are eroding it to the core and breaking Americans' spirits.
Math and reading scores have been declining in American classrooms for years. And this is not just an academic challenge, it’s a matter of national security. According to a Department of Defense brief from late last year, China and Russia are graduating far more math, science and engineering students than the US, compromising America’s defense
Man United are at risk of being dumped out of European football should themselves and Nice qualify for the same European competition this season
Multiple factors are driving parents to abort children with a prenatal diagnosis, and all of them are heartbreaking.
Recently, Gov. Kim Reynolds sent the Iowa National Guard to the U.S.-Mexico border in response to the national media attention the border has received. This choice follows in the wake of other governors sending the National Guard to put up barbed wire fences that were ordered to be taken down by the Supreme Court. This
Billionaire Elon Musk, a self-proclaimed former lifelong Democrat, declared on Monday that America needs a "red wave" in the 2024 election.
Masao Dahlgren in this op-ed offers reasons why venture capitalists and the Pentagon aren’t yet on the same page, and calls for them to work together so that both can reap the benefits.
After winning the 2022 World Cup, Argentina would have been forgiven for
Biden already has the authority to send roughly the same amount of aid he is demanding from Congress in the 'emergency' supplemental bill.