‘This Hanukkah and Christmas, bear in mind it takes all of us to face as much as hate’
Jenan Mohajir and Rebecca Russo at USA At the moment
The “twin bigotries of antisemitism and Islamophobia are a danger to the way forward for our households and our nation,” say Jenan Mohajir and Rebecca Russo. It’s “crucial to floor our work inside the bigger aim of lowering all varieties of spiritual, ethnic and different types of bias and discrimination.” Framing “efforts to handle antisemitism and Islamophobia inside a imaginative and prescient of pluralism permits us to have a guiding mild for our work.”
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‘Dommaraju Gukesh and India’s chess comeback’
Sadanand Dhume at The Wall Avenue Journal
India “has dramatically improved its standing in world chess,” and “geopolitical tendencies are nonetheless mirrored in chess right now — the rise of India, the China-India rivalry, the relative decline of Russia, and America’s skill to stay at or close to the highest of just about each subject,” says Sadanand Dhume. Some “sporting analogies will be taken too far, however to grasp how Indians view their nation’s rise on the earth, chess is an effective place to look.”
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‘Elon Musk as Home speaker can be the proper results of the GOP’s lengthy devolution’
Rotimi Adeoye at MSNBC
As “authorities funding talks crater,” Democrats “have a novel alternative: let Republicans personal their chaos solely,” says Rotimi Adeoye. Democrats “ought to embrace the absurdity of the GOP’s present trajectory and push for his or her final symbolic chief, Elon Musk, to turn into speaker of the Home.” On “fundamental governance, equivalent to funding the federal government, Democrats have repeatedly been the grown-ups within the room.” Making Musk speaker “can be the logical fruits of the Republican Get together’s decades-long devolution.”
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‘Trump should heed the Bromwich Precept’
James W. Carden at The American Conservative
Nationwide safety staffing “presents a novel problem to any incoming administration,” says James W. Carden. Donald Trump has an “obligation to the nation to place itself in as sturdy a place as attainable,” and will observe the “Bromwich Precept: Staffing not simply on the high, however deep into the forms issues,” and “staffing as fastidiously and as properly as is feasible.” Failing at this “could make or break a president’s foreign-policy legacy.”
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