The historic votes are in. On October 20, 2024 the EU referendum vote in Moldova passed by the exceptionally thin margin of 50.35% to 49.65%. On November 3, 2024, Maia Sandu won reelection to the presidency, defeating Aleksandr Stoianoglo in the runoff by a margin of 55.35% to 44.67%. Both of these are of great …
by Calvin Mouw 
“What makes people rebel against suffering is not really suffering itself but the senselessness of suffering.” Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morality: A Polemic “Divisiveness affirms things in people.” Consuela Hendricks, People Matter 1919 Chicago Demographics were changing quickly in Chicago as blacks were streaming in from the South; 50,000 in a period of …
by Calvin Mouw 
Women and families from states with abortion restrictions, including Hadley Duvall, right, speak during the first evening of the Democratic National Convention on Monday in Chicago. (Melina Mara/The Washington Post) Source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/elections/2024/08/21/abortion-ivf-dnc/ In the past one always got the impression that the Democratic Party’s message on reproductive rights was a bit muted. Now it appears …
by Calvin Mouw 
That education and exposure to various ideas expand one’s view and teach them to think critically and independently is already well understood. Award-winning journalist and a Europe’s Futures Fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna, Amanda Coakley explains how a new approach to education in Romania affords students a better understanding of why …
by Roxana Cazan 
How the Far Right Shield Themselves from Reality It’s always a puzzle when you see people supporting candidates and parties that logic dictates, they should not. France just had legislative elections on Sunday, July 7, and the New Popular Front left coalition in France finished first, President Emmanual Macron’s center coalition finished second, and the far-right National …
by Calvin Mouw 
“The French language, like Paris, has attempted, through its Academy, to retain its purity, to fight the advancing tides of Franglais and international prefabrication. English, by comparison, is a shameless whore.” ― Stephen Fry, The Ode Less Travelled: Unlocking the Poet Within “In Paris they just simply opened their eyes and stared when we spoke …
by Calvin Mouw 
When I go to work out (be kind), I walk past a house where an excerpt from this quote below is painted on a chair in the front yard. The quote is from Kurt Vonnegut’s fifth novel, God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater. Eliot Rosewater is talking to his wife Sylvia about how he must baptize …
by Calvin Mouw 
Self examination on the Redline I was waiting at a Redline stop on the north side of Chicago for a train to the Loop. The train arrives, I notice a car with seat openings at one end, I get on and quickly understand why. I see a “homeless person” sleeping across several seats, a common …
by Calvin Mouw 
On November 16, the US Senate invoked cloture opening the way for a vote on the Respect for Marriage Act (RFMA). On November 29, they voted 61-36 to pass the Bill with all Democrats supporting the legislation along with 12 Republicans. The House passed a version this summer and is a bit different, so there …
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