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May 28, 2025
Eric Alterman
Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim Wanted Peace, Not More Hatred
They were victims of brutal antisemitic violence as they sought peace. But some have invoked their tragedy toward the opposite end.
May 27, 2025
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Adrian Daub
Inside a Campus Crackdown Over Wokeism in France
At a small university in the city of Grenoble, an accusation of Islamophobia set off a wild kerfuffle and a media frenzy. Sound familiar?
May 25, 2025
Joe Cirincione
Trump’s “Golden Dome” Won’t Work—but It’ll Make Elon Musk Richer
For 40 years, missile defense has never been about keeping America safe. It’s all about the contracts.
May 23, 2025
Greg Sargent
Trump’s Lie About Dead “White Farmers” Just Got Even More Grotesque
That photo he brandished to Cyril Ramaphosa was from the Democratic Republic of Congo—whose refugees the Trump administration is pointedly not welcoming to America.
May 18, 2025
Ted Hammett
Vietnam’s Poignant Celebration of Victory Over America 50 Years Ago
A Marine Corps veteran who served in the war returned to the country as it marked a half-century since it prevailed over the U.S., at a tremendous human cost.
May 17, 2025
Greg Sargent
Trump’s Embrace of White South Africans Takes Dark, Unnerving New Turn
First, Trump officials cut off refugee resettlement from all over the world. Then they got those white Afrikaners here in three months. Funny how that happened.
May 16, 2025
Alex Shephard
Trump Is Doing a Good Job of Making Biden Look Bad
The president’s Middle East romp is defying the rules at every turn. If only his predecessor had shown the same courage.
May 15, 2025
Daoud Kuttab
My Palestinian Family Had a Home in West Jerusalem. Then Came 1948.
Today, Palestinians commemorate the Nakba, when we were removed from our homes and land. We carry the stories of our families not to dwell on the past, but to shape a better future.
May 15, 2025
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Christopher Hooks
Real Men Steal Countries: Inside Trump’s Absurd Greenland Obsession
An underdressed reporter journeys across icy, barren Greenland—and into Trump’s bored, nineteenth-century brain.
May 14, 2025
Yousef Munayyer
Trump Has Big Mideast Goals, and He Knows the Obstacle Is Netanyahu
Who would have guessed that the Trump-Netanyahu split would have come this fast, over this many things? It’s the biggest surprise of Trump 2.0, by far.
May 9, 2025
James North
The Trump Atrocity Happening in Plain Sight on the Media’s Watch
The president’s demolition of the lifesaving Bush-era HIV/AIDS program will kill tens of thousands of people in sub-Saharan Africa. Why does nobody care?
May 8, 2025
Timothy Noah
The Big Winner of Trump’s Much-Hyped Trade Deal Is ... Not the U.S.
It’s a great day to be an Anglophile. But the global economy is still on the verge of a ruinous trade war.
May 8, 2025
Laurie Clarke
The Libertarian Tech Bros’ Weird, Dystopian Plan for Guantánamo Bay
The latest dream of the “freedom city” proponents: Transform the island prison into a “migrant proving ground” that doubles as an American Dubai.
May 6, 2025
Matt Ford
Transgender Rights Are in Grave Peril at the Supreme Court
The high court’s decision to uphold Trump’s ban on trans soldiers points to worrisome outcomes in pending cases that affect these vulnerable Americans.
May 5, 2025
David S. Abraham
How the United States Lost the Rare Earth Materials War to China
Chinese dominance in this critical sector of the economy did not happen by accident—it was a policy choice.
May 2, 2025
Jonathan Guyer
The Forgotten Forever War That Cost Mike Waltz His Job
America has been bombing Yemen for two decades. That conflict ultimately led to Waltz’s dismissal as national security adviser.
April 22, 2025
Alexander Stille
Which Past Fascist Does Trump Most Resemble? The Incompetent One.
Donald Trump’s narcissism bears a striking resemblance to Benito Mussolini’s. Which does not bode well.
April 21, 2025
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George Black
Decades Later, the Truth Behind a Grisly Mass Murder in El Salvador
The 1980 execution of four American churchwomen was one of the most shocking human rights crimes of the twentieth century. No one has ever really gotten to the bottom of it—until now.
April 14, 2025
Matt Ford
Trump’s Wildly Unconstitutional Plot to Banish U.S. Citizens to Gulags
His plan to send American citizens to foreign prisons is the latest in a long series of affronts to the American constitutional order.
April 14, 2025
Joe Cirincione
Weirdly Enough, Donald Trump May Actually Want a Deal with Iran
It would be for all the wrong reasons: to appease Putin, and to make a buck. But incredibly, a deal just might happen.
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