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Mark I. Pinsky, Opinion Contributor

Mark I. Pinsky, Opinion Contributor

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Live updates: Trump heads to Alaska to for crucial meeting with Putin

President Trump departed Washington just after sunrise Friday, heading west for his first meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in years and...

15.08.2025 10

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Mark I. Pinsky, Opinion Contributor

Stephen Miller’s revenge? Duke is now in the crosshairs

On July 30, the Trump administration froze $108 million in Duke’s federal research funding.

15.08.2025 10

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Mark I. Pinsky, Opinion Contributor

‘South Park’ vs. Trump: And the little children shall lead them

What does it say about America that the only people taking on President Trump on his own terms — which is to say, in the gutter — are two bad-boy...

26.07.2025 8

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Mark I. Pinsky, Opinion Contributor

AllAfrica covers a continent the US is increasingly ignoring

The platform is the premier producer and aggregator of content from and about Africa.

23.07.2025 7

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Mark I. Pinsky, Opinion Contributor

A modern golem: The ‘antisemitism’ charge has run amok

Leaders like ADL’s Jonathan Greenblatt and ZOA’s Mort Klein have successfully conflated any criticism — however justified — of Israel’s Gaza...

18.05.2025 2

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Mark I. Pinsky, Opinion Contributor

A visit to Cuba reveals stasis, inequality and desperation

For Cubans here, times are difficult — sometimes desperate. The economy is a mess.

27.04.2025 3

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Mark I. Pinsky, Opinion Contributor

Purim in Casablanca: Celebrating in Gaza’s shadow

For Morocco’s Jews, the festival of Purim, beginning March 13, has contemporary resonance, illustrating the tenuous existence of diaspora Jewish...

10.03.2025 9

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Mark I. Pinsky, Opinion Contributor

Immigration has created a ‘Nuevo South’ in North Carolina

In the foothills of North Carolina’s Blue Ridge Mountains, a nondescript white clapboard house has become one of the most popular restaurants in...

13.02.2025 10

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Mark I. Pinsky, Opinion Contributor

West Bank settlers are reenacting King Ahab’s sin

The lesson of Naboth’s vineyard for the Israeli government and the West Bank settlers.

19.12.2024 7

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Mark I. Pinsky, Opinion Contributor

How a French political movement from the 1950s helps explain Trump’s win

Among the most enthusiastic Trump supporters today are the members of the entrepreneurial middle and lower-middle classes.

15.11.2024 2

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Mark I. Pinsky, Opinion Contributor

Harris seeks boost from women voters to help her over finish line

Vice President Harris is seeking to maximize turnout from women voters in the final days before the election in hope the critical voting block can...

03.11.2024 1

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Mark I. Pinsky, Opinion Contributor

45 years after the Greensboro Massacre

On Nov. 3, 1979, Ku Klux Klansmen and neo-Nazis ambushed and killed five leftist demonstrators at an anti-racist rally in Greensboro, North Carolina.

03.11.2024 2

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Mark I. Pinsky, Opinion Contributor

How ‘Bull Durham’ became a musical and Durham became a thriving city

Surprisingly, a movie — and architectural preservation — helped accelerate Durham’s 40-year civic revival.

08.10.2024 2

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Mark I. Pinsky, Opinion Contributor

Why is America so slow to exonerate the wrongly convicted?

Once police and prosecutors develop a case theory, they ignore new information undermining it. To reinforce their scenario, they sometimes cut...

07.09.2024 3

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Mark I. Pinsky, Opinion Contributor

Listen to the modern-day Jeremiahs denouncing Israel’s war in Gaza

Some now want to broaden the term “antisemite” to include all not in lock step with Netanyahu’s far-right government.

14.08.2024 2

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Mark I. Pinsky, Opinion Contributor

The white face of American poverty

In his new book, Barber attacks a “constellation of myths,” chiefly that American poverty has a Black face.

16.07.2024 10

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Mark I. Pinsky, Opinion Contributor