Tag: Party

How to Play Inappropriate Party Games in a Second Language

Over the holidays, my partner and I visited his family in France. While we were there, we played the game Limite Limite a few times. Limite Limite is essentially the French version of a popular anglophone party game called Cards Against Humanity. The two games aren’t affiliated with ...

Neom House Warming Party

In the heart of Saudi Arabia’s desert, Neom emerges as a beacon of the future. This ambitious project, known as The Line, represents a groundbreaking vision of urban living. As new residents prepare to settle into their condos, they face an intriguing cultural intersection, particularly in the...

Is White Privilege Blinding the Democratic Party?

In Associated Press news, Joey Cappelletti writes, “Michigan democrats warned the White House that Joe Biden’s handling of the Israel-Hamas war could cost him support within the Arab American.” Seriously, is that what the Democrats think, they may lose the support of Arab...

WHICH CURRENT PARTY BEST SUPPORTS YOUR RIGHTS AND BELIEFS?

Some time ago someone asked if I was a Democrat or Republican. When I responded, “It depends, I have voted for both,” they asked me what had influenced me to vote the way I did. Other than to say, I “liked the candidate and what I believed he or she stood for,” I had trouble ...

The Anti-Democracy Party

The moniker “Republican,” has been used to label the anti-fascists of the Spanish Revolution, the anti-monarchists of the French Revolution, and the American political party embracing anti-slavery. And now the anti-democracy party? In the interest of “brand awareness,” ...

Why a Multi-Party Congress Would Not Revitalize American Democracy

American politics, we all know, has reached a dangerous inflection point. Indeed, the disturbing contemporary realities have become so commonly discussed that they hardly need to be restated (but I’ll do so anyway): decades of gridlock and dysfunction have resulted in exceptionally high levels...

The Hapless Third Party Choice

Dissatisfaction with our politics is rampant, as we know. Not only don’t we like the people, their ages and leanings, or their policies, we don’t like the divisions they promote. We allow polls to ask whether “the country is headed in the wrong direction” when that questio...