https://ideapod.com Expanding Minds, One Idea at a Time Tue, 25 Jul 2023 14:30:17 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.2.2 https://ideapod.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/cropped-Ideapod-favicon-32x32.png https://ideapod.com 32 32 https://ideapod.com/everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-guidance-patrol-iran-morality-police/ https://ideapod.com/everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-guidance-patrol-iran-morality-police/#respond Sun, 23 Jul 2023 14:00:48 +0000 https://ideapod.com/?p=176007 On Monday, July 17, it was reported by media outlets all over the world that the morality police in Iran had returned to the streets.  This branch of the Islamic Republic’s police force had seemingly for the most part been pulled back after the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini last September.  The regime’s authorities announced […]]]> https://ideapod.com/everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-guidance-patrol-iran-morality-police/feed/ 0 https://ideapod.com/why-are-hollywood-workers-striking-and-how-will-it-impact-the-industry/ https://ideapod.com/why-are-hollywood-workers-striking-and-how-will-it-impact-the-industry/#respond Thu, 20 Jul 2023 14:00:21 +0000 https://ideapod.com/?p=175596 The writer’s strike that has been happening in Hollywood since May 2 has officially become the writer and actor strike, and it’s become one of the biggest Hollywood strikes in history. It’s the first joint strike between the actors and writers in more than six decades. It’s also the first joint walkout since 1980.  But what […]]]> https://ideapod.com/why-are-hollywood-workers-striking-and-how-will-it-impact-the-industry/feed/ 0 https://ideapod.com/what-is-propelling-the-protests-in-france/ https://ideapod.com/what-is-propelling-the-protests-in-france/#respond Wed, 12 Jul 2023 14:00:49 +0000 https://ideapod.com/?p=174789 Major protests in France are going into their third week now with no end in sight.  The country had just been getting past the widespread demonstrations that were going strong at the beginning of the year over the pension reform bill. In the latest protests, thousands of people have been arrested.  But what ignited the […]]]> https://ideapod.com/what-is-propelling-the-protests-in-france/feed/ 0 https://ideapod.com/what-is-whitelash/ https://ideapod.com/what-is-whitelash/#respond Thu, 06 Jul 2023 05:00:16 +0000 https://ideapod.com/?p=174122 In his recently published book, American Whitelash: A Changing Nation and the Cost of Progress, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Wesley Lowery says that President Barack Obama’s winning of the 2008 election made history—but it also caused a rise of “whitelash.” The progress was too much for white fragility and it gave way to a spike in […]]]> https://ideapod.com/what-is-whitelash/feed/ 0 https://ideapod.com/iranian-parliaments-vote-to-investigate-human-rights-lawyers/ https://ideapod.com/iranian-parliaments-vote-to-investigate-human-rights-lawyers/#respond Mon, 03 Jul 2023 09:00:45 +0000 https://ideapod.com/?p=173757 Human rights violations are everybody’s business—whether they happen in our backyard or on the other side of the globe. On June 28, The Center For Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) reported that the Iranian parliament voted to investigate the Iranian Bar Association.  The New York-based independent, non-partisan, and non-profit organization says the vote is a […]]]> https://ideapod.com/iranian-parliaments-vote-to-investigate-human-rights-lawyers/feed/ 0 https://ideapod.com/why-did-wagner-group-leader-prigozhin-go-against-putin/ https://ideapod.com/why-did-wagner-group-leader-prigozhin-go-against-putin/#respond Mon, 26 Jun 2023 06:30:34 +0000 https://ideapod.com/?p=172886 In Part One, we discussed the origin and rise of the Wagner Group—the mercenary Russian outfit that dominated the news this weekend for attempting an apparent insurrection on Vladimir Putin’s government.  An ally of Putin since the Wagner Group’s creation in 2014, leader Yevgeniy Prigozhin and his troops on Saturday morning had shockingly taken control […]]]> https://ideapod.com/why-did-wagner-group-leader-prigozhin-go-against-putin/feed/ 0 https://ideapod.com/what-is-the-wagner-group/ https://ideapod.com/what-is-the-wagner-group/#respond Mon, 26 Jun 2023 03:10:07 +0000 https://ideapod.com/?p=172864 The Wagner Group has been dominating the news this weekend.  Stunning the world, the Russian mercenary network went rogue and attempted to topple Russia’s military leadership in a coup—something that hasn’t happened in the country since the 1990s.  On Saturday morning, Wagner forces seized the southern Russian city of Rostov. The Russian government tried to […]]]> https://ideapod.com/what-is-the-wagner-group/feed/ 0 https://ideapod.com/noam-chomsky-on-current-threat-to-free-speech-in-us/ https://ideapod.com/noam-chomsky-on-current-threat-to-free-speech-in-us/#respond Sat, 17 Jun 2023 01:00:25 +0000 https://ideapod.com/?p=171471 Western society has long represented the symbol—and practice—of freedom to the rest of the world.  Arguably nowhere else in the world is the idea—and the right—to freedom of speech more celebrated than in the United States of America. Freedom of speech is the very foundation of the United States’ First Amendment right.  In March 2022, […]]]> https://ideapod.com/noam-chomsky-on-current-threat-to-free-speech-in-us/feed/ 0