Did anything good actually happen this year?

The decision to reward the corrupt regime with the honor of hosting the cherished tournament is one more instance of the sport’s recent slide into shame.

The president-elect’s affection for the worst despots and dictators should worry us all.

A bill allowing the executive branch to strip nonprofit status from organizations offering “material support” to terrorists could easily be used to target political enemies—including environmentalists.

Far from “America First,” his foreign policy advisers largely believe in using military force abroad—at the risk of entangling the U.S. in more conflicts.

If it seems hard to understand the Palestine voter, it is likely because they have been living very different lives from most Americans over the past year.

If Jews vote on their traditional concerns, yes, she can. But Israel has become a conservative cause. And this will matter in—gulp—Pennsylvania.

Conservatives recently gathered in Washington to explain how they would rule the world in a second Trump term. The result was incoherent, occasionally frightening, and often very dumb.

The pager attacks and three high-profile assassinations are intelligence and military coups. But there’s little sign they’ve weakened or divided the opposition.

Yes, the administration delivered a return to normalcy after the Trump years. But its indecisiveness and failure to face reality have come at a real cost.

A trip to Israel and Palestine in 2023 made Coates rethink one of his most famous essays.

Hamas’s horrific terrorist attack on that day gave Israel the excuse it desired to destroy Gaza—and America did nothing to stop it.

The casualties in the Middle East include thousands of innocents lives and (for now) any hope of peace. The casualty here? The dream of liberal Zionism.

What’s happening in the Middle East was enabled by a president with ideological priors, aides who failed to push back, and a cheerleading media establishment.

Alongside the mass graves and beneath the tons of rubble, there may lie another victim: the very possibility of a jointly imagined coexistence.

The secretary of state overruled his own experts, allowing bombs to continue to flow to Israel. How many more people would be alive today if he hadn’t?

At an antisemitism event, Trump attacked American Jews. The man is unraveling fast, and the sanewashing must stop now.

Some take the view that anti-Zionism is never antisemitic. Others say it always is. Both are wrong—and both obstruct honest dialogue.

Without being exposed to diversity and disagreement, college students won’t learn how to think for themselves.

As we’ve seen, it’s hard for the U.S. to defend Israel and send it arms and be an honest broker for a cease-fire. There’s a better way.