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Civil War Re-enactors

Arts, Culture & Media

Novelist Tom Dyja visits a Civil War re-enactment.

Commentary: Baraka’s Big Lies

Arts, Culture & Media

Dear Diary — It’s Paul’s Alter

Arts, Culture & Media
Family of six sitting closely together on a sofa

The courts called him a terrorist, but one judge and several politicians want him to be able to stay in the US

Global Politics
Marwah Maasarani and her husband Omar Awad watching Donald Trump's RNC speech in their New Jersey livingroom on Thursday.

Here’s what a Muslim couple in New Jersey made of Donald Trump’s RNC speech

Election 2016
Jumana Jaber's project called "Chemo Therapy and Chemical Weapons." The Syrian artist says it juxtaposes her experience with breast cancer in 2006 with the Syrian government's attacks on its people now.

A Syrian family in New Jersey create art and music that they couldn’t back home

Arts

President Obama is falling short on his pledge to accept 10,000 Syrian refugees by the end of September. But some Syrians have already been granted visas and are living here, not as refugees, but as visiting professors.

House leaders reverse course, set vote for Superstorm Sandy aid

Global Politics

The 113th Congress opened for business on Thursday and they’re already embroiled in a controversy. House leaders, in the fact of fierce criticism, reversed course and said they’d schedule a vote for Friday on the first installment of relief for victims of Superstorm Sandy.

Campaign to stop cybersquatting

The nonprofit Coalition Against Domain Name Abuse (CADNA) wants to make it easier for people to wrangle websites away from cybersquatters.

A More Holistic View of the U.S. – Mexico Border

Later this week, we’ll be bringing the Takeaway to Mexico City, Mexico. In anticipation of our visit, we’re looking today at the state of the border. Depending on who you ask, the border might be defined as a barrier that should be guarded against those crossing over. Alternatively, it might be seen as a meeting […]

Floods and Fraud: Congress Considers Sandy Aid

Residents of Coastal New York and New Jersey are still feeling the aftereffects of Sandy more than two months after the powerful storm left more than 100 dead  with  more than $71 billion in damage.   President Obama signed a $9.7 billion Sandy aid package last Sunday, and Congress will decide the fate of another $51 billion aid […]