| CNN.com delivers up-to-the-minute news and information on the latest top stories, weather, entertainment, politics and more. | Time to end Israel's impunity | | Last summer, while visiting our family in Shuafat, a neighborhood in occupied East Jerusalem, my son Tariq was chased, zip-tied, and beaten unconscious by Israeli police officers as he watched a protest. The protest was in response to the kidnapping and killing of his 16-year-old friend and cousin, Muhammad Abu Khdeir, by Israeli settlers the day before. |
| Did Jenner cover make you uncomfortable? | | By now you've seen Caitlyn (nee Bruce) Jenner on the cover of Vanity Fair. You'll find the portrait stunning: either because it is a beautiful portrait of a 65-year-old vixen who has found her power and freedom, or because you are stunningly uncomfortable looking at it. |
| Let's be honest about Caitlyn Jenner | | So Bruce Jenner officially said farewell to his former male identity by introducing the world to Caitlyn Jenner Monday in, quite literally, the way only a major Hollywood figure could: via a Vanity Fair cover previewed in a tweet. As a social media connection of mine mused earlier in the week: "Sadly, this is probably the only way that (VF editor) Graydon Carter would ever agree to put a woman in her sixties on the cover of Vanity Fair." |
| What headscarf ruling reveals about America | | Consider some differences between Europe and the United States on freedom of religion and free speech: In parts of Europe, it's illegal for a Muslim woman to wear a head scarf. In the United States, it's illegal to refuse to hire a woman because she wears a head scarf. In parts of Europe, it's illegal, even in an academic paper, to deny that the Holocaust took place. In the United States, it's illegal to prosecute someone for making specific, terroristic threats on social media. |
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