Citations Needed

We've seen the headlines hundreds of times: "ISIS plot foiled", "ISIS in Brooklyn", "Woman Stopped At Airport on way to join ISIS". These stories strike fear into the hearts of Americans everywhere, e...

21 Mar 20181h 17min

Fighting against the far right forces of the Republican Party and their auxiliary white supremacist media makes attempts to appropriate notions of nationalism into a liberal mold a compelling short cu...

14 Mar 20181h 1min

The idea that there exists an ongoing effort to achieve a "two-state solution" in Israel and Palestine - often referred to as The Middle East Peace Process™ - is uniformly taken for granted by America...

7 Mar 201849min

The idea that there exists an ongoing effort to achieve a "two-state solution" in Israel and Palestine - often referred to as The Middle East Peace Process™ - is uniformly taken for granted by America...

28 Feb 20181h 13min

Citations Needed is off this week, but we do have a fascinating interview with Hoda Katebi on her now-infamous WGN television segment. In this News Brief, we explore what it means to "sound American,"...

21 Feb 201826min

If one were to approach New York Times-reading liberals circa 1990 and tell them about a crime-fighting policy that arbitrarily harassed black and Latino youths who had committed no crime and threw th...

14 Feb 20181h

The term "welfare" is thrown around so casually in political speeches and media coverage we hardly notice it anymore. CNN reports that "GOP will tackle Medicare, Medicaid, welfare in 2018," while The ...

7 Feb 201852min

Few words elicit such warm feelings as the term "Democracy." Wars are supposedly fought for it, foreign policies are built around it, protecting and advancing it is considered the United States' highe...

31 Jan 201853min