This July, while interning for l’Organisation Marocaine Des Droits de l’Homme (OMDH)/Moroccan Human Rights Organization, I saw the streets of Rabat, Morocco adorned with red and green. The Moroccan national flag was displayed at every street corner, and pictures of King Mohammed VI were hung in every restaurant. The country was preparing to celebrate Throne Day, the ten-year anniversary of King Mohammed VI’s ascension to the throne. In addition...
King Abdullah II of Jordan Is Jordan next? Despite all the chatter, there are reasons to believe it isn’t, for now. Last week, Jordanians went to the polls to participate in undeniably flawed elections. An electoral system that heavily favored the pro-monarchy constituencies voted in a parliament that has reinforced King Abdullah’s rule, and has marginalized the opposition. Anticipating this farce, the two largest opposition parties, al-Hirak,...
...kesman instead of the many individuals who made the spokesman relevant. The most pertinent example from the last fifty years is the civil rights movement. The myth that has been engendered is that Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. is eponymous with the civil rights movement, beginning with the Montgomery Bus Boycott. In fact, King was chosen to be the spokesperson for that boycott primarily because he was a young novice and consequently had no ene...
...ives of your neighbors when you’re the Mayor. I’ve gotten pretty good in Washington at putting together a coalition of 50 percent plus one of my colleagues to get things done. But as Mel Brooks might say, ‘it’s good to be the King.’ It’s good to be able to do things with a phone call or the stroke of a pen....
...inside. She definitively supports President Barack Obama, but said “we are going to have to be at his back on November 6 and in the streets on November 7. “ Jackson echoed with his own experience, saying, “Martin Luther King Jr. supported Kennedy over Nixon, but we still had the March on Washington” in 1963. While the speakers seemed to be coming from the same progressive position on issues of straight politics, the group showed more divergence...
...llege-bound students are no longer required to have a firm grasp of Greek and Latin, nor is university education limited to the elite, but the ethic remains constant. Some of our greatest Americans—such as Martin Luther King, Jr. and W.E.B. Du Bois—benefited from this culture of acceleration, despite the challenges they faced. As the country grew, however, and as education became available to more and more people, regularization and standardizati...
...nd his willingness to engage with ideas from outside the Marxist tradition is compelling. One of the most radical of his ideas, that of a guaranteed minimum income, once enjoyed support from figures ranging from Martin Luther King to Richard Nixon, and is partially in practice as the Earned Income Tax Credit. While that modest program is far short of what Wright calls for in Envisioning Real Utopias, it is a reminder that some of his ideas have b...
...Congress to make one woman pay for the entire health care overhaul simply because her cherubic daughter had the courage to criticize the government. That’s injustice. And, in the words of the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” Maddie is not going to stand for injustice anywhere, let alone everywhere. And that’s not just because her squishy little legs can’t support the weight of her body...
...e action in admissions decisions. Bruno Baretta, CC ’15 and Austin Heyroth, CC‘15 represented the Democrats, while Will Prasifka, CC‘12 and Taylor Thompson, CC ’14 represented the Republicans. Referring to Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Civil Rights Act of 1964 in his opening statement, Baretta identified the rhetoric of equality that the United States champions and that affirmative action attempts to actualize. Baretta noted that only 41 percen...
...spite a number of promising developments in the aerospace industry. Chief among these is the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. Designed by Elon Musk, co-founder of PayPal and Tesla Motors, and the supposed inspiration for Robert Downey Jr.’s portrayal of Tony Stark in the Iron Man films, the Falcon 9 is intended to offer access to space at costs nearly 80% lower than the rockets of the United Launch Alliance. The Falcon 9 successfully flew its first...
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