JARED O. BELL – The carefully curated remembrance of Dick Cheney, respectful as it may be, was incomplete. It was sanitized. It skipped the chapters that defined millions of other people’s lives far more than his virtues ever did.
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America’s peril: The rot of anti-intellectualism and demagoguery is costing us our future
JARED O. BELL – Abraham Lincoln’s warning has never felt more urgent, a house divided against itself cannot stand. And America will not stand if we split into two realities, one grounded in evidence, the other built on delusions. Without shared truth, there can be no shared purpose, no shared future. Division doesn’t just weaken the house, it rots the foundation. Anti-intellectualism and demagoguery are the rot.
“The ‘Othered’ genocide: Sudan’s suffering and the world’s indifference
JARED O. BELL – Humanitarian action should never depend on the strategic interests of great powers, yet history shows that it often does. We should have learned this lesson from the Holocaust, Bosnia, and Rwanda, and countless other crises the world ignored because they did not fit political agendas. Silence is complicity, and we have seen where that leads again and again. Sudan is becoming the next horror we will one day mourn, even as it unfolds before our eyes and the world turns away.
What the West Got Wrong: Muslim Women Don’t Need Saving—And When They Do, Where Are You?
JARED BELL – When Muslim women suffer under so-called “backward” patriarchal societies, outrage often triggers swift policy responses and widespread condemnation. But when the violence is inflicted by allies, liberal democracies, or nations we trade with, the response becomes muted, qualified, and politically convenient.