Robert Lipsyte: What Kind of Jew Am I?

I grew up in the least-Jewish Jewish family around in the 1950s. We celebrated Christmas every year in a big-time fashion: tree, decorations, and all. And despite the desires of my dear grandmother, there would be no temple, no Sunday Hebrew school, no religion of any...

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America Never Was the Indispensable Nation

Richard C. Longworth, in his Chicago Tribune op-ed "Is America Still the Indispensable Nation?" ponders whether America will remain the world's indispensable nation much longer. His concern is that for the first time in the half century of polling by the Chicago...

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The ‘Human Rights Industry’ and Nicaragua

Reprinted from CovertAction Magazine. Why do United Nations human rights bodies focus on some countries, but not others? Why do organizations like Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International appear to ignore important evidence presented to them? And why do the media...

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