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In Florida, Voter-Suppression Is Essential to GOP’s Edge

December 3, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 18 Comments

One of Florida's insiduous voter-suppression methods is to prohibit ballot drop-off boxes in most places, and to prohibit their use where they are permitted, if they are not monitored by an elections staffer. (© FlaglerLive)

Republicans in 2023 are on a campaign to emulate what occurred during Reconstruction by disenfranchising African Americans, engaging in severe gerrymandering so that the odds are turn in their favor in 2024. Their harsh and uncompromising position on abortion is costing them support and has led to losses in primaries. But the GOP’s political strategy is explained by former President Donald Trump, who has said the quiet part out loud: Republicans will never again win elections if democratic reforms make voting easier.

‘Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory”s Racist Origins

December 2, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 10 Comments

A storyline in the forthcoming ‘Wonka’ movie is that the central character can change a dutiful young girl’s life.

Dahl’s book is part of a long history of children’s books that feature racist stereotypes – a list that includes six Dr. Seuss books that were removed from publication in 2021. Other children’s classics, such as “Peter Pan” and “Mary Poppins,” have also been criticized for perpetuating racism.

The George Santos Calamity

December 1, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 12 Comments

Rep. George Santos in the U.S. Capitol on Nov. 7, 2023.

How could a politician engage in such large-scale deception and get elected? What could stop it from happening again, as politicians seem to be growing more unapologetically deceptive while evading voters’ scrutiny?

The Rise of LGBTQIA+ Sanctuary Cities–Including, Possibly, Tallahassee

November 30, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 6 Comments

Minnesotans hold a rally at the state capitol in St. Paul to support trans kids in March 2022. (Michael Siluk/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

At least 15 states and cities have dubbed themselves LGBTQIA+ sanctuaries over the last several years. Sanctuaries are generally considered local refuges, where people who are afraid of persecution or discrimination have legal immunity from particular government policies or laws. Tallahassee, Florida, is among the places that is considering declaring itself a LGBTQIA+ sanctuary.

Bridging Our Divides From a World Away

November 30, 2023 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

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For all the polarization of America, there are still ways to bridge divides and engage in meaningful conversations, and seeing perspectives from the other side of the river–or the other side of the Atlantic, as does Christine Flowers.

The Kissinger Delusion

November 30, 2023 | Pierre Tristam | 43 Comments

Henry Kissinger with Egypt's Anwar Sadat in an undated photo from the early 1970s. (Florida Memory)

This man’s death, way overdue–Kissinger lives to be 100 but Hank Williams, born the same year, dies at 30?–is a tragedy only in one sense: despite the copious and undisputed record about one of the most brutal men of the 20th century, Kissinger is still garnering bootlicking tributes. The tragedy is that America does not learn. It rinses the blood and repeats. 

Why Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Year Is ‘Authentic.’ Think AI.

November 28, 2023 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

According to the publisher’s editor-at-large, 2023 represented ‘a kind of crisis of authenticity.’ (

For the past 20 years, Merriam-Webster, the oldest dictionary publisher in the U.S., has chosen a word of the year – a term that encapsulates, in one form or another, the zeitgeist of that past year. In 2020, the word was “pandemic.” The next year’s winner? “Vaccine.” “Authentic” is, at first glance, a little less obvious. According to the publisher’s editor-at-large, Peter Sokolowski, 2023 represented “a kind of crisis of authenticity,” and that the choice was informed by the number of online users who looked up the word’s meaning.

Should Biden Reconsider His Bid for a 2nd Term?

November 28, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 22 Comments

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Stung by a succession of high profile polls showing President Joe Biden trailing former president Donald Trump among crucial swing state voters, the White House and its allies in Congress have scrambled to calm jittery nerves and reassure donors and establishment leaders all is well and under control. Many aren’t buying it.

Are Social Media Comments Protected by the First Amendment?

November 27, 2023 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

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The First Amendment does not protect messages posted on social media platforms. The Supreme Court has agreed to hear five cases during this current term that collectively give the court the opportunity to reexamine the nature of content moderation – the rules governing discussions on social media platforms such as Facebook and X, formerly known as Twitter – and the constitutional limitations on the government to affect speech on the platforms.

How Nazis Targeted Trans People

November 26, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 8 Comments

Patrons at the Eldorado, a popular LGBTQ cabaret in Berlin during the Weimar years.

What the Nazis did about transgender people was chilling, including imprisonment in concentration camps and execution. It’s a reminder that attacks on trans people are nothing new – and that many of them are straight out of the Nazi playbook.

Zealotry Takes the Gavel at the Flagler County School Board

November 26, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 38 Comments

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It’s an indication of the Furry-Chong-Hunt majority’s churlishness that the school board member with the most experience, the most education, the most legislative, parliamentary and institutional knowledge by far (Colleen Conklin, who is in her last year), is being passed over as chair on Tuesday for Will Furry, her polar opposite in every respect, and a rookie. 

It’s Not Just Trump: What Islamophobes’ Victory in Dutch Election Says About Far Right’s Resurgence

November 25, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

Geert Wilders’ Party for Freedom has a plurality in the Dutch parliament. (thierry ehrmann/Flickr)

For the first time in Dutch history, a party of the extreme right is the largest in the national parliament. Wilders is an eccentric politician known for his inflammatory rhetoric. He advocates the Netherlands leaving the European Union and has called Islam a “fascist” religion. In a 2016 trial, he was found guilty of inciting discrimination (but received no penalty for the crime).

Court Rules You Can’t Sue to Enforce Voting Rights. Is That Fair?

November 24, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

The recent court decision about the Voting Rights Act could be a setback for people’s right to vote.

A federal appeals court in Arkansas ruled on Monday, Nov. 20, 2023, that only the federal government – not private citizens or civil rights groups – could sue to enforce the 1965 Voting Rights Act. This decision will likely be appealed to the Supreme Court – but if it stands, it could gut individual people’s and civil rights groups’ legal right to fight racial discrimination in voting.

Gray Friday: Americans Are Tiptoeing Out of Economic Turmoil

November 23, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 9 Comments

Shoppers are looking for value this holiday season.

Consumers are conflicted: They’re excited for deals and looking forward to treating themselves, but they’re feeling squeezed by high prices. On average, they plan to spend about US$665 on gifts this holiday season — about $35 less than last year, and substantially less than the National Retail Federation’s 10-year average of $826.

Coded Racism in Jason Aldean’s Song Exposes Problem with Small-Town Values

November 22, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 18 Comments

Maury County Courthouse located in historic Downtown Columbia, Tennessee. (Wikimedia Commons)

The Maury County Courthouse in Columbia, Tennessee, has come to represent the overlooked cultural divisions between urban and small-town America.
The courthouse was the site of the lynching of a Black teenager in 1927. It also served as a rallying spot for white vigilantes who assembled there during race riots in 1946. It is now the focus of a modern-day controversy over singer Jason Aldean’s “Try That in a Small Town.”

Colonists’ Violence Against West Bank Palestinians Denies Their Right to Exist

November 21, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 15 Comments

Israeli soldiers patrol the Palestinian Bedouin village of Tala (Thala) in the occupied West Bank on Oct. 26, 2023, after residents were attacked by Israeli settlers the same day.

The proliferation of armed settlers in the West Bank, the expansion of illegal settler outposts and now the increasing violence and forced displacement all stem from the same underlying policy that led to the 16-year blockade of Gaza: an Israeli policy of ignoring Palestinian national claims altogether.

Homelessness as a Deprivation of Freedom

November 20, 2023 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

Homelessness as deprivation of freedom

Some philosophers have argued that while homelessness is clearly a state of deprivation, it is also a condition in which a person’s freedom is profoundly compromised. These theorists insist a society that cherishes freedom – such as the U.S. – must implement anti-homelessness policy as a way of liberating people who lack housing.

Yes, the South Has a Poverty Crisis

November 19, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 7 Comments

About 20% of counties in the South are marked by “persistent poverty.”

By a range of economic indicators — personal income per capita and the proportion of the population living in poverty, for starters – large parts of the South, and particularly the rural South, are struggling. About 1 in 5 counties in the South is marked by “persistent poverty” — a poverty rate that has stayed above 20% for three decades running. Indeed, fully 80% of all persistently poor counties in the U.S. are in the South.

Florida Lawmakers Put Developers’ Interests Ahead of Residents’ Hurricane Safety

November 19, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 9 Comments

Hurricane Ian's calling card on Sanibel Island in September 2022. (© Scott Spradley)

In a bill to supply aid to the victims of Hurricane Ian and Idalia, lawmakers told local governments in counties hammered by the storm that they were not allowed to make “burdensome” changes to their land-use or growth plan regulations for three years. No learning from their mistakes and trying to avoid repeating them.

‘From the River to the Sea’: A Historian Interprets the Palestinian Slogan

November 18, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

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The majority of Palestinians who use this phrase do so because they believe that, in 10 short words, it sums up their personal ties, their national rights and their vision for the land they call Palestine. And while attempts to police the slogan’s use may come from a place of genuine concern, there is a risk that tarring the slogan as antisemitic – and therefore beyond the pale – taps into a longer history of attempts to silence Palestinian voices.

Unthanksgiving at Alcatraz: The Annual Celebration of Resistance to American Colonialism

November 17, 2023 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

The Teo Kali, an Aztec cultural group, participates in a sunrise “Unthanksgiving Day” ceremony with Native Americans on Nov. 24, 2005, on Alcatraz Island.

The Indigenous People’s Thanksgiving Sunrise Ceremony is an annual celebration that spotlights 500 years of Native resistance to colonialism in what was dubbed the “New World.” Held on the traditional lands of the Ohlone people, the gathering is a call for remembrance and for future action for Indigenous people and their allies.

Fentanyl: An Explanation

November 16, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

Only a small amount of fentanyl is enough to be lethal.

Buying drugs on the street is a game of Russian roulette. From Xanax to cocaine, drugs or counterfeit pills purchased in nonmedical settings may contain life-threatening amounts of fentanyl. Fentanyl is a synthetic opioid that was originally developed as an analgesic – or painkiller – for surgery.

The Problem with Offshore Wind Farms

November 15, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 14 Comments

A row of monopiles that will be the base for offshore wind turbines, in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Martha’s Vineyard, Mass.

In a recent report, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine examined whether and how constructing offshore wind farms in the Nantucket Shoals region, southeast of Massachusetts, could affect critically endangered North Atlantic right whales. Marine scientists weigh in.

Dolphins and Manatees Are Getting Poisoned in Miami’s Biscayne Bay

November 14, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

Canals carry PFAS into Miami’s Biscayne Bay.

PFAS, the “forever chemicals” that have been raising health concerns across the country, are not just a problem in drinking water. As these chemicals leach out of failing septic systems and landfills and wash off airport runways and farm fields, they can end up in streams that ultimately discharge into ocean ecosystems where fish, dolphins, manatees, sharks and other marine species live.

What Jail Conditions and Deaths Tell us

November 13, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 19 Comments

Since Jan. 1, 2023, 10 inmates have died at Fulton County Jail.

Jails are locally managed, and the majority of their populations are being detained pretrial while unconvicted. Data on how many people die while incarcerated is notoriously inaccessible and often unreliable. Relatively high turnover rates, we found, were associated with higher death rates overall, as well as due to suicide, drugs and alcohol, and homicide.

Government Shutdown, Chapter DCCLXV*

November 12, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 11 Comments

When Democrats and Republicans fight, do Americans win?

Much of the news coverage of the discussions and negotiations aimed at averting a government shutdown on Nov. 17, 2023, relies on pundits and their unnamed sources, on leaks, speculation, wishful thinking and maybe even the reading of tea leaves. It’s not about to get better.

Condemn Palestinians’ Genocidal Rhetoric–and Israel’s Genocidal War

November 12, 2023 | Pierre Tristam | 49 Comments

There is no question that "river-to-the-sea" emblems and rhetoric, like that t-shirt sold at an Arab fest in Orlando last May, is a genocidal, anti-Semitic call for the eradication of Israel. (© FlaglerLive)

There’s unquestionably some river-to-the-sea anti-Semitism out there. It should be and is being denounced. But conflating all criticism of Israel with anti-Semitism is itself a form of bigotry that places Palestinian lives beneath contempt and Israeli policy above reproach, even as swaths of Gaza in November 2023 look like Dresden in February 1945 and anti-Palestinian rhetoric in media and government continues to be indistinguishable from the vilest racism. 

2030 Clutter Odyssey: 1 Million Satellites in Space?

November 11, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

Debris plot by NASA. A computer-generated image of objects in Earth orbit that are currently being tracked. Approximately 95% of the objects in this illustration are orbital debris, i.e., not functional satellites. The dots represent the current location of each item. The orbital debris dots are scaled according to the image size of the graphic to optimize their visibility and are not scaled to Earth. The image provides a good visualization of where the greatest orbital debris populations exist. This image is generated from a distant oblique vantage point to provide a good view of the object population in the geosynchronous region (around 35,785 km altitude). Note the larger population of objects over the northern hemisphere is due mostly to Russian objects in high-inclination, high-eccentricity orbits.

There are currently only about 8,000 active satellites in orbit. But In September 2021, Rwanda announced that it was planning to launch over 300,000 satellites. Three months later, a Canadian company, having previously launched two dozen CubeSats, said it would launch an additional 100,000. Then, a French company did likewise. And SpaceX, which has already launched around 5,000 satellites, now has plans for over 60,000 more. What’s going on?

More Than One Journalist per Day Is Getting Killed in Gaza

November 10, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

Pictures of Sameeh Nadi and Esam Bashar in mock coffins representing Palestinian journalists killed during the war in Gaza, Ramallah, West Bank, November 7 2023. Nasser Nasser/AAP

At least 39 journalists and media workers had been killed in the month since the war began, the deadliest conflict for media workers since the Committee to Protect Journalists began keeping records in 1992. The victims are mostly Palestinian journalists and media workers killed in Israel’s attacks on Gaza, but they include four Israelis, whom Hamas murdered in its initial cross-border raid on October 7, and one Beirut-based videographer killed in south Lebanon.

Abortion Rights Won’t Fade in 2024 Election

November 9, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 7 Comments

Abortion rights supporters celebrate Issue 1 passing in Ohio on Nov. 7.

Three reasons why: Votes amending state constitutions are key to protecting abortion rights. Reframing abortion restrictions does not fool voters. Abortion rights matter up and down the ballot. In sum, abortion increasingly matters to voters. And most voters do not want laws severely restricting abortion and other kinds of reproductive health care.

Is Mormon Church Defrauding Members?

November 8, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 5 Comments

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A lawsuit against the LDS church and Ensign Peak, filed on Oct. 31, is based on the premise that the church has violated its members’ trust by amassing massive investments in stocks, bonds, real estate and agriculture that don’t support charitable activities.

What Is Intersectionality?

November 7, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

Civil rights advocate and legal scholar Kimberle Crenshaw speaks in New York City on Feb. 7, 2015.

Intersectionality, the social theory, has a complex history and refers to the intertwining of different identities, such as class, gender and age. It is often applied as a way to understand how individuals may experience multiple forms of prejudice simultaneously. The theory assumes that meanings associated with one identity are insufficient to explain the experiences associated with multiple, coexisting identities.

Should Domestic Abusers Have Access to Guns?

November 6, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 10 Comments

Will the federal law prohibiting the possession of firearms by someone subject to a domestic violence restraining order survive

The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday hears arguments in a case that will decide whether courts should, as is the case in Florida, have the authority to take away the guns of people who are under a domestic violence protective order, which aims to shield victims from their abusers.

Daylight Saving Time Is More Dangerous Than Beneficial

November 5, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

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The empirical evidence for the intended benefits of daylight saving time are mixed at best, whereas the costs of the switch to daylight saving time are becoming increasingly evident. The American public has had a love-hate relationship with daylight saving time since it first became law in 1918.

By God: Why Matt Gaetz Is In Love With Mike Johnson

November 5, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

Congress' hottest bromance: Reps. Matt Gaetz and Mike Johnson. (DonkeyHottey)

That Matt Gaetz is so deliriously happy should tell you quite a bit about Mike Johnson, the latest speaker of the House: he is the most unabashedly Christian nationalist speaker in history.

On Campus, a Challenging Time for Free Speech and Empathy

November 4, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

Students at UMass Amherst march across campus following a walkout and rally protesting the university’s “ties with war profiteers,” while also calling for “a ceasefire and end of the blockade on Gaza.”

College and university campuses across the U.S. have seen polarization and unrest since the Israel-Hamas war began with the Hamas attack on Israeli civilians on Oct. 7, 2023. Students and faculty have held protests and rallies, argued on social media and signed statements, some of which have increased mistrust and turmoil on campus.

How a Reckless FHP Chase Almost Caused a Catastrophic Crash in Seminole Woods

November 4, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 34 Comments

Some of the Florida Highway Patrol troopers involved in the Oct. 26 chase in Seminole Woods, after the alleged suspect's apprehension on Slow Drift Turn. (© FlaglerLive)

On Oct. 26, Palm Coast resident Kendall Clark and her husband were driving in a residential Seminole Woods neighborhood to visit family when they were almost in a severe crash with a Florida Highway Patrol trooper chasing an alleged suspect who had committed no violent crime nor was wanted on a warrant.

In Gaza, Children Are the Ultimate Pawns and Victims

November 3, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 11 Comments

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Hamas militants killed approximately 30 Israeli children when they attacked civilians on Oct. 7, 2023, killing more than 1,400 people altogether. At least 20 Israeli children remain hostage in Gaza. Since Oct. 7, Israeli airstrikes have killed more than 2,000 Palestinian children and more than 8,000 people overall, according to the Hamas-run Ministry of Health in Gaza.

Americans Need to Hear More Palestinian Voices

November 3, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

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The absence of Palestinians and their advocates from news coverage isn’t just unfair. Sarah Gertler, a Jewish American, argues it is harmful, silencing criticism of Israel and making news media complicit in war atrocities.

Kristallnacht, 85 Years Ago: Hitler’s Anti-Semitic Turning Point

November 2, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

The Boerneplatz synagogue in flames on Nov. 10, 1938, during the ‘Night of Broken Glass’ in Frankfurt, Germany.

Kristallnacht–the Night of Broken Glass–was the logical culmination of Hitler’s malevolent intentions going back many years before 1938. Seeing it that way allows us to view the two different kinds of antisemitism in Hitler’s thinking, one involving emotions and the other involving the law and reason. The latter foreshadowed the mass shooting squads and death camps of the early 1940s.

The Fascist Tradition Behind Trump’s Increasingly Violent Rhetoric

November 1, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 18 Comments

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Former President Donald Trump’s rhetoric has regularly bordered on the incitement of violence. Lately, however, it has become even more violent. Yet both the press and the public have largely just shrugged their shoulders. This rhetoric may seem like crazy bluster. But put in its historical context, what Trump is doing is echoing views that are part of a long tradition of outright fascist thought. For fascists have always seen the use of violence as a virtue, not a vice.

Teachers Union Blisters School Board Over ‘Fiscal Irresponsibility’ and ‘Unjust Actions’ in Attorney’s Pending Firing

November 1, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 21 Comments

Beth Keer, the legal guardian of a student at Matanzas High School and a former human resources director for a national behavioral health organization, addressed the school board at its last meeting on Oct. 26, when it set the parameters of firing School Board attorney Kristy Gavin, without stating just cause. ". This is a high risk termination which could result in a claim of wrongful discharge, which could be in this particular case, I would say, in excess of a $500,000 claim or potentially an EEOC claim," Keer told the board. "It appears to me that it's a desire by some board members to terminate Ms. Gavin's contract not based on facts but rather based on personal agendas." (© FlaglerLive)

In a letter to her membership, Elisabeth Dias, president of the Flagler County Education Foundation, the teachers union, calls attention to what she terms the potential “wrongful termination” without due process of School Board Attorney Kristy Gavin, which would set a precedent and pose “a serious threat to the rights and well-being of our members, as well as the financial stability of our school district.”

How Bach’s Toccata and Fugue in D Minor Became Halloween’s Theme Song

October 31, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

In Bach’s era, the pipe organ was one of the world’s most technologically advanced instruments.

Johann Sebastian Bach’s Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 565, is an organ work composed in the early 18th century. Most people today recognize it as a sonic icon of a certain type of fear: haunting and archaic, the kind of thing likely to be manufactured by someone – a ghost, perhaps – wearing a tuxedo and lurking in an abandoned mansion.

Why Some People Equate Criticism of Israel with Anti-Semitism

October 30, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

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Many Jews are still grieving, shocked and traumatized by what happened on Oct. 7. But other people, in the U.S. and around the world, have already moved on from Oct. 7, and they are much more concerned about the war that Israel is now waging against Hamas and the devastating impact it is having on Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.

‘In God We Trust’ Tests Limits of Religion in Public Schools

October 29, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 6 Comments

Courts have held that reciting the pledge in schools is constitutional.

Louisiana passed a law in August 2023 requiring public schools to post “In God We Trust” in every classroom – from elementary school to college. Even under recent Supreme Court precedents, the Louisiana law may violate the establishment clause of the First Amendment, which prohibits the government from promoting religion.

DeSantis’s Censorship University System Is Causing a Brain Drain

October 29, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 19 Comments

DJ Spang, a student from Tallahassee Community College, joined a walkout at Florida State University to protest various policies for higher education from the DeSantis Administration. Feb. 23, 2023.

DeSantis is obsessed with remaking education according to his authoritarian tendencies, doing his damnedest to wreck K-12 with his army of book-banning harpies in “Moms for Liberty” and his Scared Karens legislation, and forbidding honest discussion of slavery and racism so as to never make white kids feel “discomfort, guilt, anguish, or any other form of psychological distress.”

How a School Superintendent in Maine Addressed the War in Gaza with Students and the Community

October 29, 2023 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

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Jim Tager, a former superintendent of schools in Flagler, describes himself “privileged and inadequate to fully grasp the experiences of people in the Middle East,” but seeing his district through its prism of diversity and tolerance, he urges students and colleagues to form the kind of friendships across boundaries that enrich local and global communities.

Israel’s Gaza Campaign Risks Replicating U.S. in Iraq

October 28, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

Armored Israeli military vehicles maneuver near Israel’s border with Gaza.

The conflict will likely resemble heavy urban fighting similar to other battles over the past 20 years elsewhere in the Middle East against Iraqi militants and the Islamic State group – and very different from the more limited engagements Israel has attempted in Gaza up until now.

Solar Power Is Expected to Dominate Electricity Production By 2050

October 27, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

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The authors’ projections suggest that the average cost of generating electricity through solar energy will decrease substantially, by 60% from 2020 to 2050, even when factoring in the growing demand for energy storage. Should these forecasts prove accurate, solar energy combined with storage is expected to become the cheapest option for generating electricity in nearly all regions worldwide by 2030.

The Disinformation Behind Islamophobia and Anti-Palestinian Racism

October 26, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 6 Comments

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Since 9/11, two billion Muslims globally have faced collective punishment. Constructed as folk devils who imperil western societies, Muslims have been framed as inextricably linked with the support and promotion of violence. When these racist narratives are espoused by politicians, they falsely equate the support of Palestinian people with support for terrorism and instill fear and moral panic about the Muslim presence in this country and elsewhere.

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