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Britain faces an epidemic it refuses to name, while Israel, with a larger Muslim minority, has kept it in check. The difference holds urgent lessons. In the days before the establishment of Israel, when Arabs made up nearly 70 percent of the population and Jews were a minority suffering harsh pogroms, even rumors of sexual violence against a Jewish girl were met with the harshest retribution...

You say "Broward County," Joy Reid says "Bull Connor." On her MSNBC show AM Joy on Saturday, Reid offered this hot take while discussing Republican criticism of Broward County, Florida election head Brenda Snipes: "Here is the way they are treating Brenda Snipes, who is the long-time Election Supervisor there, who by the way is an older black woman in the Deep South."Get the rest of the story and view the video here.

In the coming weeks, Hanauer and Loranne Ausley, a former member of the Florida House of Representatives, plan to launch something they're calling the Southern Project, which will conduct research and formulate messages that can help Democrats win over Southern voters. A pilot study conducted in North Carolina in February, for example, concluded that under the state's Republican governor, Pat McCrory, "there is a clear sense that hardworking taxpayers are getting the short end of the stick at the expense of big corporations and the wealthiest." The set of talking points advises progressives to make arguments "focused around fairness and...

ATLANTA, Georgia (Reuters) – Snow and ice carpeted much of the U.S. Deep South on Monday, leaving at least four people dead, cutting off power to thousands and closing countless roads, authorities said. Up to nine inches of snow fell in highland parts of the South with lesser amounts in North and South Carolina, Tennessee, and Mississippi, but authorities said a bigger problem was icy roads. "Bad everywhere," is how Nicholas Stembridge of the Tennessee Highway Patrol, described roads in his state. One person died overnight in a weather-related accident in western Alabama, and a second died in central Alabama,...

A Times analysis shows that Bush's sweep of the region went even deeper than first appeared. WASHINGTON — The generation-long political retreat of Democrats across the South is disintegrating into a rout. President Bush dominated the South so completely in last month's presidential election that he carried nearly 85% of all the counties across the region — and more than 90% of counties where whites are a majority of the population, according to a Times analysis of election results and census data.The Times' analysis, which provides the most detailed picture yet of the vote in Southern communities, shows that...

Does anyone know if W is gonna make it to AL, upper FL, GA or MS for a campaign visit? I've checked the website and I find nothing scheduled.

By James Morrison, Arts and Media Correspondent 01 December 2002 A high-profile television advert is under investigation after complaints suggesting it was homophobic and had resorted to stereotyping gays.The commercial, for Virgin Mobile, features the musician Wyclef Jean. He is shown naked in communal showers in a jail in the "deep south" of the United States, looking alarmed about the prospect of picking up a bar of soap from the floor. Last week, the Independent Television Commission suspended a commercial for the internet company Yahoo! after 15 people complained that its depiction of a naked man being preyed on by...