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Hussein Ibish

Hussein Ibish

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Hussein Ibish is a geopolitical analyst and an author, who is currently a senior resident scholar at the Arab Gulf States Institute in Washington. He was previously the Washington correspondent for the Daily Star Lebanon newspaper, and has served as a senior fellow at the American Task Force on Palestine and as communications director for the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee. He has a PhD in comparative literature from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst
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Black Lives Matter and Black Panther protesters gather in Brunswick, Georgia, last November during the trial of three men charged with the slaying of Ahmaud Arbery. AP Photo
Why are some anti-racism activists in America so confrontational?

Parts of the left seem no longer focused on achieving equity, justice or fairness – but something else

CommentMarch 01, 2022
Opponents of an academic doctrine known as Critical Race Theory attend a packed Loudoun County School board meeting in Ashburn, Virginia, last June. Reuters
America's Grand Old Party is fuelling the next 'big lie'

Republicans are passing state-level laws banning the teaching of the country's racial past and present

CommentFebruary 23, 2022
People hold Quebec and Patriote flags near Parliament hill as truckers continue to protest in Ottawa, Canada, February 13. Truckers continue their protest against the mandate by the Canadian government for mandatory vaccines against Covid-19 to be able to return to Canada. A state of emergency was declared in the city of Ottawa on February 6. EPA
Canada's truckers toe a new right-wing protest template

The protests in Ottawa have much in common with last year's Capitol riots in Washington

OpinionFebruary 14, 2022
US Supreme Court Associate Justice Amy Coney Barrett (left) with Chief Justice John Roberts in front of the Supreme Court, following her investiture ceremony on October 01, 2021 in Washington. Ms Barrett has been a member of the court for more than a year but the ceremony was delayed due to the pandemic. Getty / AFP
The US Supreme Court and an illusion of justice

The Court has always been political. So why have judges on both sides been complaining of late?

CommentFebruary 09, 2022
Marlon Brando in The Godfather. Courtesy Paramount Pictures
America's dangerous taste for mob stories

Social media allows ex-hoodlums to market themselves as celebrities

CommentFebruary 01, 2022
Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and chief medical adviser to the President, Dr Anthony Fauci at Capitol Hill in Washington, on January 11. AFP
They hate Anthony Fauci because they hate the American state

Vitriol for Washington's most prominent doctor goes beyond political opportunism

CommentJanuary 26, 2022
President Joe Biden leaves after speaking about the coronavirus pandemic in the White House in Washington, on August 3, 2021. AP
Biden has had an especially bad week

The coronavirus crisis is another source of Mr Biden's deepening unpopularity

CommentJanuary 18, 2022
Activists participate in the January 6 Candlelight Vigil for Democracy at Union Square in front of the US Capitol in Washington, US, last week. EPA
The US can stop another coup attempt

Mob attacks like the one on January 6, 2021 are the exact antithesis of democracy

CommentJanuary 09, 2022
Flowers on a fence, a week after a pro-Trump mob broke into and took over the Capitol, in memory of slain Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick, in Washington, January 14, 2021. AFP
The US democracy has its hands full this year

Where is America headed? We'll have a better idea in 2022

CommentJanuary 02, 2022
Kyle Rittenhouse waves to cheering fans as he appears at a panel discussion at a Turning Point USA America Fest 2021 event, on December 20, in Phoenix, US. The panel discussion, called "Kenosha On Camera," comes a month after Rittenhouse's acquittal on charges in the deadly Kenosha shootings in 2020. AP
Gun culture, anti-vaxxers and an American crisis

Freedom is up for debate in today's US

CommentDecember 28, 2021
Senator Joe Manchin at the US Capitol in Washington, DC. Getty / AFP
Why has US senator Joe Manchin said no?

The West Virginia senator has withdrawn support for Joe Biden's $2 trillion social spending bill

CommentDecember 20, 2021
US Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, with Representatives Adam Schiff (L), Jerry Nadler (2nd L) and Carolyn Maloney (R), speaks during a press conference on ”Protecting Our Democracy Act” in the US Capitol in Washington, on December 9. AFP
Is the US a flawed democracy?

Gerrymandering is not a new concept but it's now getting worse

CommentDecember 12, 2021
American songwriter Bob Dylan accepted the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2017. AFP
Bob Dylan's journey matches a changing America

The singer is performing the best he has in years

CommentDecember 05, 2021
A shopper walks past turkeys displayed for sale in a grocery store ahead of the Thanksgiving holiday in Los Angeles earlier in the month. AFP
Inflation isn't Biden's biggest problem right now

His administration has done a very good job on the US economy, yet it is failing to sell this to the public

CommentNovember 29, 2021
US President Joe Biden greets a young child during a visit to Fort Bragg to mark the upcoming Thanksgiving holiday on Monday. AP Photo
Will Trump's political future matter to Biden in 2022 or 2024?

His party may well lose the midterms, but the US President could win reelection if he completes his legislative agenda

CommentNovember 24, 2021
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