Faisal Al Mutar Fights Radical Islam with Western Bestsellers
The head of Ideas Beyond Borders is translating books by Steven Pinker, Sam Harris, and others into Arabic and distributing them for free.
The head of Ideas Beyond Borders is translating books by Steven Pinker, Sam Harris, and others into Arabic and distributing them for free.
Friday A/V Club: Long before "fake news" was a cliché, Alan Abel was both inserting and exposing fakery in the news.
Nicolas Cage finally finds a home-not the case for Jack Black and Cate Blanchett.
Valentino Dixon has been proclaiming his innocence for decades. After a golf magazine brought attention to his case, people started to listen.
The actor and the meme have finally merged.
Plus: Kennedy-family charity to bail out incarcerated NYC women and how Virginia makes things impossible for small distillers.
Student journalists at a Vermont high school had a damning article censored by their interim principal.
The Trump administration's deportation push finally forced the Golden State to stop criminalizing everything.
What exactly does an "added sugar" label tell us that the existing total sugar label does not? Nothing worthwhile.
The controversy might be two years old, but that didn't stop the Reno City Council from weighing in.
Blake Lively and Anna Kendrick in a very twisted murder mystery, and the latest return of a familiar space case.
Not only did Brian Esola make sure he wasn't violating the city code, he also checked with his neighbors beforehand.
Shane Black's lackluster entry doesn't understand the appeal of John McTiernan's action classic.
Harris and other Democrats distorted Kavanaugh's comments on birth control to portray him as a religious extremist.
But that's the story major news sites used.
Americans don't eat their pets. Why does the Dog and Cat Meat Trade Prohibition Act even exist?
The church denied the government's request to install CCTVs.
The Sixth Circuit reaffirms this, including for sexual assault accusations, in a case against the University of Michigan; and the court also allows plaintiff to proceed with his claim that the process was biased against him because of his sex.
A new study finds vegan and vegetarian men are embarrassed about their meat-free diets. They shouldn't be.
There are many reasons to be excited about the NFL's return. The national anthem controversy isn't one of them.
To understand what has happened to the Republican Party, consider the trajectory of the Wisconsin governor.
Jennifer Garner, born-again butt-kicker. Taissa Farmiga in search of scary.
But if the show must exist, I have some ripped-from-the-headlines ideas for upcoming plots.
A new book ties racist reactionary politics to the war, but overreaches when it comes to militias.
The rapper criticizes the probation system's obstacles to redemption.
The bill has passed both houses of the state legislature. Now it just needs Jerry Brown's signature.
Why can't the team just play in the city's NFL stadium?
The Slants speak with Reason a year after winning the right to use their own name.
Jack Reynor, Zoë Kravitz and James Franco in an underdog sci-fi feature.
Uncensored author and new college grad Zachary R. Wood explains why his generation is so scared of viewpoint diversity.
Apparently, nothing could get in the way of city employees' desire to party.
Chaldean-Assyrians aren't safe in their home country. But reuniting with family in a new one feels impossible.
Like powdered chocolate, laser pointers, and video games, legal sports betting has caught the attention of the Senate's most notorious nanny.
Depletion of trust and confidence in public and private institutions is happening across the board and leads to more, not less, government.
A state law says you can't call it meat unless it's actually beef, pork, or poultry. Critics say the bill violates the First Amendment.
Death squads are after Father Amado Picardal, an early critic of the Philippine drug war.
An unidentified suspect has been reported dead at the scene.
Both right and left decry implicit government discrimination on the basis of religion when it targets groups they sympathize with. But both are all too ready to turn a blind eye in other cases.
Friday A/V Club: Lifestyles of the Rich and Strange