Posts Tagged ‘Slate.com’

Sorry Slate, Islam is NOT Sole Religious Threat in the U.S.

In an article for Slate, Jacob Weisberg asks if United States President Barack Hussein Obama has been too conciliatory towards Islam and not taken a hard enough stance against terrorism purportedly carried out under the guise of Islamic duty.
Though Weisberg does do a good job in separating Moderate Muslims from Muslim terrorists, his diction fails [...]

What the Current Health Care System in America Says About the Nation

In a recent article for Newsweek magazine, Jacob Weisberg, compares the healthcare systems of Britain, Japan and the United States in order to explore what each system say’s about the respective nation’s characteristics.
It seems America’s system actually goes against America’s own character and has most importantly remained stagnant, as American society has gone through a [...]

The Internet Pays Tribute to Michael Jackson : The Once and Future King of Pop

You can‘t believe it, you can‘t concieve it
And you can‘t touch me, ‘cause I‘m untouchable
And I know you hate it, and you can‘t take it
You‘ll never break me, ‘cause I‘m unbreakable

MTV, BET, The New York Times, VH1, Slate, Mossip, Pretty Much Amazing, Gawker, Billboard, The Huffington Post, and The Superficial all pay tribute to the [...]

Slate.com’s Anne Applebaum on Iranian Women : ‘Regimes That Repress…Half Their Population are Inherently Unstable’

In her interview with Lesley Stahl, CNN Chief International Correspondent Christiane Amanpour, spoke about the strength and resilience of Iranian women. In her piece for Slate.com, Anne Applebaum, points to the turmoil on the streets of Iran following the highly contested tenth Presidential election in Iran, as a movement that began with and is being [...]

Slate.com Points to Other Factors That SHOULD Lead to a New Revolution in Iran

Though Slate is not entirely sold on the notion that the aftermath of the highly contested tenth presidential election in Iran will lead to a revolution, or even that Twitter has proven to be an accurate source of hard facts from the streets of Iran, they do a good job at summing up the exact [...]