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Ibrahim Hashi, a Muslim veteran of the U.S. military, is pictured in his American University dorm room on Dec. 2. (Jahi Chikwendiu/The Washington Post) U.S. Marine Gunnery Sgt. Emir Hadzic was a Muslim refugee. “The way Americans welcomed us made such a huge impression on me that I felt like I owed something back,” said…
Photo Students cheered as the statue of Cecil Rhodes was removed from the University of Cape Town. Credit Charlie Shoemaker/Getty Images Johannesburg — NOT long after I moved from the United States to South Africa six years ago, I took a walk in a city called Bloemfontein. The scale of the downtown is huge, reflecting…
On December 2nd, GOP presidential front-runner Donald Trump gave an interview to the New York Times in which he said that the next president needs to project toughness, and that Harrison Ford’s performance in “Air Force One” was a model of such projection. “My favorite was Harrison Ford on the plane,” Trump said. “I love…
Photo: Neil Davidson/© 2014 Sony Pictures Television Inc. All Rights Reserved. SCOTLAND — When the Golden Globe nominations were announced early Thursday morning, the cast and crew of Outlander collectively got the shivers — not the least because they were shooting outdoors on location on an extremely cold December afternoon. “I’m…
For the second time this year, the Las Vegas Review-Journal and its sister publications in Nevada are under new ownership. The publications were acquired by News + Media Capital Group LLC, a newly formed Delaware-domiciled company backed by “undisclosed financial backers with expertise in the media industry,” Michael Schroeder, who was identified as the manager…
Over a long weekend on assignment for Playboy magazine, Mark Bowden found that behind the garish Trump façade lies only more ugliness. I spent a long, awkward weekend with Donald Trump in November 1996, an experience I feel confident neither of us would like to repeat. He was like one of those characters in an…
Hundreds of activists gathered outside of the Trump International Hotel and Tower in New York City’s Columbus Circle on Thursday evening for a demonstration in solidarity with Syrian and Iraqi refugees. The protest was organized to coincide with International Human Rights Day. The organizers of the rally said protesters were there “to say no to the…
Anybody who’s ever watched Star Trek: Voyager knows there’s a lot of technobabble on that show. Even more than most other Star Treks. And Captain Janeway, the show’s lead, is actually a scientist in her own right. So Kate Mulgrew had to work hard to sell all that scientific dialogue. Mulgrew was talking to Huffington…
Rosalind Brewer in 2010 Bryan Bedder/Getty Images /sl-art-illo-cap /sl-art-illo-cntr Sam’s Club CEO Rosalind Brewer is in hot water with white men after a CNN interview in which she championed diversity and talked about an experience meeting with a supplier who had no representation of women or people of color. “It has to start with…
A Pessimist’s Guide to the World in 2016 Oil prices soar after Islamic State destroys facilities across the Middle East. Angela Merkel is forced to resign, throwing the European Union into disarray. The dollar slumps as Russian and Iranian hackers team up to launch cyber-attacks on U.S banks. Bloomberg News asked dozens of former and…