by Patricia Lee Sharpe | May 23, 2016 | Monitor
By Patricia Lee Sharpe Lu marries Tham, but Chen marries Healy. Flannagan marries Kennedy, but Roberts marries Maheshwari. So the U.S. is still a melting pot, ethnically. But wait: birds of a feather—East Asian as well as Irish—are definitely flocking together. Both,...
by Patricia Lee Sharpe | May 16, 2016 | Monitor
By Patricia Lee Sharpe So Trump won’t be able to greet the new mayor of London at the White house—or even let him into the country—because he’s a Muslim. That’s only the beginning—think of all the other leaders who’ll be on the persona non grata list for religious...
by Cole Bunzel | May 11, 2016 | Monitor
Two months ago, Abu Muhammad al-Maqdisi, the leading Jihadi-Salafi scholar known for his fierce opposition to the Islamic State and support for al-Qaida, released an essay that was widely interpreted as a softening of his position toward the Islamic State. As Hassan...
by Patricia H. Kushlis | May 8, 2016 | Monitor
By Patricia H Kushlis London May 8. I spent May Day in London including ten minutes or so observing what amounted to a minuscule Socialist Workers demonstration whose participants had assembled on a small green near Karl Marx’s house in Islington and the pub across...
by The Washington Post | May 1, 2016 | Monitor
By: The Washington Post "Obama’s plan for fighting the Islamic State is predicated on having a credible and effective Iraqi ally on the ground in Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi."
