by Charles Cameron | Apr 16, 2016 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — classification, impropriety, and a concept pretty much unique to Meister Eckhart ] . First, here’s what I call a DoubleTweet, juxtaposing two tweets for the resonance between them — and juxtaposing two thoughts for the...
by Patricia Lee Sharpe | Apr 11, 2016 | Monitor
By Patricia Lee Sharpe Hopes were high a few years ago. The Arab street—that’s working people as well as the educated middle class—was waking up and demanding a better shake. Throwing off well-founded fears of brutal retaliation, thousands of people gathered...
by Patricia H. Kushlis | Feb 15, 2016 | Monitor
By Patricia H Kushlis Madeleine Albright wrote in “My Undiplomatic Moment,†a commentary published in The New York Times on February 13, 2016, that she had said at a Clinton rally in New Hampshire “there’s a special place in hell for women who don’t help...
by Patricia Lee Sharpe | Sep 8, 2014 | Monitor
By Patricia Lee SharpeTake the time to read Hillary Clinton’s Hard Choices. Read it carefully and take it seriously, as many critics have not. Instead, having salivated in anticipation of its publication date, they swooped in, intending to gorge on juicy (but...
by Rumana Ahmed | Jul 15, 2014 | Monitor
President Barack Obama hosts an Iftar dinner celebrating Ramadan in the State Dining Room of the White House, July 14, 2014. (Official White House Photo by Amanda Lucidon) Last night, President Obama hosted his sixth Iftar dinner celebrating Ramadan at the White...
