Blogs
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Strange bedfellows….
Whichever way you look, from the historical perspective, the Islamist militant movement has always been about the quest for power,…
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America’s New Education Delivery System
The Covid-19 shock threw longstanding arrangements between home, school, and community institutions into disarray – and catalyzed creative and determined…
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9/11 Killed It, But Twenty Years on Global Justice Movement Is Poised to Reincarnate
The broader demand for social justice will revive, initially behind the imperative of dealing with climate change but then with…
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Impact of 9/11 on American Muslims
The terrorist attacks unleashed a deluge of anti-Muslim hate and misinformation that persists today. By Nazarul Islam In the aftermath…
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Rule of Law and Pakistan
The democracy and Rule of law walk side by side and can never be perceived to be present in a…
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The Boomers: History’s Privileged Generation
“Baby boomer” is an Americanism, first used to denote the enormous rise in fertility that took place in that country…
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Observations of an Expat: Bataclan Trial
1500 “civilian plaintiffs”—surviving victims and family members of the dead—are scheduled to give five weeks of testimony about the horror…
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Grief is not a Cry of War
Triumphalism is bred in the backbone of America’s historical conception of itself. It is the nation that wins, and if…
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Politics, Revolution and Tribalism
Tribalism is something completely different: it is surrendering one’s independent thought for the sake of a group. By Nazarul Islam…
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Life in America
The leadership of all American institutions — universities, arts foundations, corporations, even the Army and CIA — has taken on…
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