Palestinian reporter for Al Jazeera, whose vivid dispatches from Gaza over the last year and a half I've quoted numerous ...

The Trump administration supports Israel as payback for the financial backing it received from Netanyahu’s supporters in the ...

Imagine a world in which a hurricane devastates the Gulf Coast, and the U.S. has no federal agency prepared to quickly send ...

Terminus, the Roman god of borders and boundary stones, had a motto: I Yield to No One. In the old days, lambs and piglets ...

The face is a mirror of the mind. Ovid The General Security Administration in Syria has issued an executive order prohibiting ...

Senator Sheldon Whitehouse and Representative Madeleine Dean reintroduced the Northern Rockies Ecosystem Protection Act in ...

The vast undercount of Israeli-caused deaths in Gaza is regularly reported as 50,000. The actual toll from violent military ...

Elon Musk’s DOGE has taken a particularly keen interest in Social Security – and not in a good way. Musk called the program ...

March 27, 2025, marked 48 years since the death of Shirley Graham DuBois, the prominent African American writer, scholar, and ...

President Trump’s second term has made clear how much we need the courts to uphold the rule of law — and what a difference ...

Israel has resumed its aerial bombardment of Gaza. The latest ceasefire, which lasted two months and led to the release of 33 Israeli hostages and 1,900 ...

Beginning in March of 2017 and for the following eight years, at 11:00 a.m. on every Saturday morning, a group of New Yorkers has assembled in Manhattan’s Union Square for “the Yemen vigil.” Their ...