Nicholas Kristof offers some historical perspective on keeping refugees from coming to America: In January 1939, Americans polled said by a two-to-one majority that the United States should not accept 10,000 mostly Jewish refugee children from Germany. That year, the United States turned away a ship, the St. Louis, with Jewish refugee children; the St. […]
Shepard Smith, the only sane broadcaster at Fox News Channel, had some harsh words today for politicians and blowhards (including most of his colleagues) who have leapt at the opportunity to over-react to the attacks in Paris. Without naming names (e.g. the 20 governors who announced today they will not allow Syrian refugees into their […]
Peter Van Buren on how we have to change how we react to tragedies like the murders in Paris this weekend: We tweet hashtags and phrases in high school French and post GIFs to Facebook. We know what to do; we’ve done this before. But it has to be said, especially looking at the sick […]
Nadia Hashimi’s novel, “When The Moon Is Low,” is about a family that escaped Afghanistan as the Taliban was coming to power, only to become refugees trying to start a new life in the streets of Europe’s cities. I asked her to join me because we haven’t heard much about the Taliban recently, even as […]
In the week leading up to July 4th, the FBI issued several “heightened terror alerts” about potential ISIS-related attacks over the holiday weekend. It’s not the first time they’ve issued such warnings in the 14 years since 9/11 and, as Adam Johnson wrote in an investigative piece for FAIR, the media once again asked no […]
“While covering war, there were days when I had boundless courage and there were days when I was terrified from the moment I woke up.” Those are the words of Lynsey Addario, who has spent most of this century in some very dangerous places (e.g. Iraq, Afghanistan, Darfur, the Congo, and Libya) taking pictures for […]