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Issue: 1055

September 18, 2025

View from the Battlefield

MAGA Blames Political Violence in the U.S. on the Left

By Jamala Rogers Editorial Board

The number of guns exceeds the population in the U.S, and so it comes as no surprise that the country has the highest number of school shootings in the world or that guns are the leading cause of death among our children and adolescents.

Immediately after the fatal shooting of right-wing Charlie Kirk at a rally on the Utah Valley University campus, the Left and Democrats were quickly blamed. Dictator…

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Color of Law

Jewish Atonement for the Genocide in Gaza

By David A. Love, JD Executive Editor

Israel is justice for Jews, and redemption from the ashes of the Holocaust. Jews were most certainly the victims of Nazi Germany, but they are not the victims now in Israel.

The following are remarks I gave on an August 27, 2025 panel discussion entitled: “Atoning for Gaza: North American Jews and the Work of Teshuvah.” The…

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Commentary

Political Violence Is Inexcusable

By Dr. Elwood Watson, PhD Guest Commentator

No child anywhere should lose a parent in such a hateful, callous way. It will require much more than quoting my father for the United States to evolve from our current conundrum of multifaceted violence, tragic apathy, and degrading policies. - Bernice A. King

The assassination of Charlie Kirk - the founder of a youth political movement that helped revolutionize modern conservatism - at Utah Valley University is a tragedy.…

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Sharp n’ Blunt

Eulogies with Erasers: Why I Won’t Lie at Charlie Kirk’s Funeral

By Desi Cortez Columnist

If you must eulogize, eulogize correctly: a skilled political entrepreneur, beloved by his base, slain in a nation where violence is too easy and certainty is cheap - who also spent his career punching down and selling hierarchies as hope.

As King Trump bangs the war drums on Americans of color, here’s the script I’m handed: hush my voice, cork my rage, pin a tasteful black…

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Commentary

Criminalizing Dissent

By Dr. Julianne Malveaux, PhD Editorial Board

This administration is committed to criminalizing dissent, and they have dozens of elected lackeys following the instructions of their mob boss.

Activist and Code Pink (a pro-peace feminist organization) founder Medea Benjamin was simply walking the halls of Congress when she spotted Congressman Darrell Issa (R-CA). She…

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Commentary

Tariffs, Tyrants, and Trade Wars: Trump’s Foreign Policy Gamble With Xi, Putin, Modi, and Kim – The Invisible Woman

By Sharon Kyle, JD Editorial Board

How Trump’s fixation on tariffs collides with the ambitions of China, Russia, India, and North Korea—reshaping global alliances and undermining U.S. credibility.

When Donald Trump entered the White House in 2017, his foreign policy was guided less by strategy than by spectacle. He railed against China’s economic rise,…

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