Michael Heckle
By Michael Heckle
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Opinion If You Thought The Mooch Was Bad, Wait Until You Meet Stephen Miller
It’s a wonder the White House hasn’t yet installed a popcorn machine in the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room. Between former press secretary Sean Spicer’s bumbling tenure and former communications director Anthony Scaramucci’s profanity-laden foolishness, the White House briefings became must-see TV. But with Scaramucci’s firing last week, the position of communications director has…
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Opinion What The Left Gets Wrong About Hate Speech
In my first year editing the opinion section of my college newspaper, myself and a fellow editor published a letter written by a member of the school’s staff that took aim at the atmosphere of political correctness on campus. Using every conservative trope in the book, this Iowa State Dining Systems Support Specialist urged students…
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Opinion 4 Things I Learned About Jews This Summer
When I was first told that my internship program was placing me at the Forward, I was apprehensive, to say the least. What would I, an atheist college student from Iowa whose experience with Jews was almost non-existent, have to offer to a Jewish publication that I had never heard of, never mind read? What…
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Opinion George W. Bush Speechwriter Slams ‘Toxic’ Trump In Washington Post Op-Ed
Washington Post columnist and former speechwriter for President George W. Bush, Michael Gerson slammed President Donald Trump for his moral ambiguity as this latest scandal involving his son’s contact with a Russian lawyer unfolds. The op-ed “An administration without a conscience,” published Thursday in the Washington Post, made no reservations in labeling the contact between…
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Opinion New York Times Column Takes Aim At Kushner’s Security Clearance
In his column “All Roads Now Lead to Kushner,” published Thursday in The New York Times, two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Nicholas Kristof made a very clear demand: revoke Jared Kushner’s security clearance immediately. Recent revelations that Kushner, Donald Trump Jr., and then-Trump campaign chair Paul Manafort met with a “Russian government attorney” in June 2016…
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Opinion Is Gal Gadot White? Here’s What People On The Street Think
Inspired by the debate surrounding the whiteness of Wonder Woman’s Gal Gadot, we took to the streets to see what the average New Yorker has to say. Michael Heckle is the Forward opinion summer fellow and ASME associate.
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Opinion New York Times Op-Ed Asks: ‘Is Your God Dead?’
In what read like a homily inspired by an acid trip, Emory University philosophy professor George Yancy channeled the likes of Friedrich Nietzsche and Abraham Joshua Heschel in a rambling but strangely moving New York Times op-ed published Monday. The essay, titled “Is Your God Dead?”, asks the reader to look at one’s own beliefs…
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The Schmooze ‘Game Of Thrones’ Creator Puts A Dystopian Spin On ‘Israel and Palestine’
After a long wait, “Game of Thrones” will finally air its seventh season on July 16th. And it’s about damn time. If you’re anything like me, these last few months have been dull, boring and far too empty of dragons. Those spring Sundays spent gathered with friends and family, waiting with morbid excitement for beloved…
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