Source: Christian Science Monitor
by staff

“Over the past nine months, a visitor to Serbia in southeastern Europe might have run into almost-daily protests by university students. The biggest demonstrations brought out at least 4% of Serbia’s 6 million people, most of them Generation Z. While the numbers and the persistence of the protests are impressive, what really matters is that ‘the students have behaved with exemplary integrity,’ as one faculty member at the University of Novi Sad put it. That has brought them widespread public support. Their integrity is rooted in a consistent demand: The students want transparency and accountability from government after the collapse of a renovated rail station canopy killed 16 people last November. … In addition, they have organized themselves after the democracy they seek: The protesters operate by consensus and with equality, without leaders.” (08/19/25)

https://www.csmonitor.com/Commentary/the-monitors-view/2025/0819/Today-s-flag-bearers-for-clean-government

Source: USA Today
by Ingrid Jacques

“According to the group’s website, the Little Sisters’ mission is to ensure that ‘the elderly and dying are cared for with love and dignity until God calls them home.’ The Little Sisters work in 31 countries and began work in America in 1868. Today, the nuns operate about 20 homes in the United States. It’s a lovely mission and one that they should be allowed to do in peace, free from interference from the government. No such luck, however. Blue states like California and Pennsylvania refuse to leave the Little Sisters alone and couldn’t care less about their religious beliefs. … The nuns don’t want to be complicit in providing services that directly violate their deep belief in the sanctity of life, which guides their work. They shouldn’t have to.” (08/20/25)

https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2025/08/20/birth-control-abortion-little-sisters-of-the-poor-ruling/85708313007/

Source: New York Post
by Kirsten Fleming

“Will Curtis Sliwa have any regrets if he wakes up on November 5 and Zohran Mamdani is the new mayor of New York — knowing he could have stepped aside and cleared the crowded campaign field that many fear will split the vote? ‘Nope,’ the Republican candidate told me. So he’s not willing to sacrifice his candidacy to save the city he loves from socialism? ‘That’s based on the idea that everyone is going to go over and vote Cuomo. Ain’t happening. They hate Cuomo. I’m in the streets every day. All I hear is ‘slapping fannies and killing grannies.’ He’s never apologized,’ Sliwa said of Andrew Cuomo’s COVID and #MeToo scandals. Meanwhile, a new AARP poll shows Mamdani’s support at 42% among registered voters; Cuomo is at 23%, fellow independent Adams is at 9%, and Sliwa claims 16%.” (08/19/25)

https://nypost.com/2025/08/19/opinion/i-agree-with-curtis-sliwa-on-a-lot-but-he-is-not-nycs-next-mayor/

Source: Washington Monthly
by Arnav Rao

“During his March address to Congress, Trump intoned in classic Trumpian fashion, ‘We used to make so many ships. We don’t make them anymore very much, but we’re going to make them very fast, very soon.’ Soon after the speech, Trump signed an executive order tasked the government with finding ways to rebuild America’s moribund shipbuilding industry, and Trump’s U.S. Trade Representative hit Chinese-built vessels with port fees. Unlike most of Trump’s other policy priorities, shipbuilding enjoys bipartisan support. Democrats and Republicans alike have applauded the president’s moves on the industry, and in the spring, lawmakers reintroduced major bipartisan legislation that would codify many of Trump’s shipbuilding plans. But can America build ships again?” (08/20/25)

https://washingtonmonthly.com/2025/08/20/can-america-build-ships-again/

Source: Caitlin Johnstone, Rogue Journalist
by Caitlin Johnstone

“Antiwar has a story out right now with the headline ‘Rep. Greene: US Should Let Gaza Children in for Medical Treatment, Prosecute Israeli Child Predators.’ It’s a headline that says so much about what’s going on in the world in just a few words. Is the US really not letting Gaza children in for medical treatment? Is the US really failing to prosecute Israelis who prey on children? Why are these necessary things to say? And why is it being left to Marjorie Taylor Greene to say them? What’s crazy is that these are entirely true and legitimate grievances. … Things are so fucked up that the only way to get wounded Palestinian children in and out of the United States for medical treatment these days would be to disguise them as Israeli pedophiles.” (08/20/25)

https://caitlinjohnstone.com.au/2025/08/20/the-us-treats-israeli-pedophiles-nicer-than-wounded-palestinian-kids/