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Recent Troops in Afghanistan

A Bigger Military Budget Won’t Make Us Safer A Bigger Military Budget Won’t Make Us Safer

National security is best advanced not by endlessly preparing for war, but by fostering peace.

Mar 20, 2024 / William Astore

Security or Segregation?

Security or Segregation? Security or Segregation?

Life along the separation wall between Palestine and Israel.

Mar 20, 2024 / OppArt / Wei Chao

Secretary of State Antony Blinken (L) is welcomed to the stage by American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) President Michael Tuchin during the committee's annual policy summit Grand Hyatt on June 05, 2023 in Washington, DC.

A Statement From Jewish Americans Opposing AIPAC     A Statement From Jewish Americans Opposing AIPAC    

"We will support candidates who are opposed by AIPAC, and who are advocates for peace and a new, just US policy toward Israel/Palestine."

Mar 20, 2024 / Jewish Americans Opposing AIPAC

It’s Time to Compost the Prison Plantation

It’s Time to Compost the Prison Plantation It’s Time to Compost the Prison Plantation

How agriculture is used to make mass incarceration seem humanitarian.

Mar 20, 2024 / Joshua Sbicca and Carrie Chennault

Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, left, listens to his deputy foreign minister and chief nuclear negotiator Ali Bagheri Kani, before their meeting with the Russian foreign minister in Tehran on June 23, 2022.

Negotiate With Iran or the Whole of the Middle East Could Burn Negotiate With Iran or the Whole of the Middle East Could Burn

If the US is going to avoid a regional war, Biden has no choice but to talk with Washington’s regional adversary.

Mar 20, 2024 / Column / Spencer Ackerman

The Problematic Past, Present, and Future of Inequality Studies

The Problematic Past, Present, and Future of Inequality Studies The Problematic Past, Present, and Future of Inequality Studies

Branko Milanović’s century-spanning intellectual history of inequality in economic theory reveals the ideological reasons behind the field’s resurgence in the last few decades.

Mar 20, 2024 / Books & the Arts / Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins

Jonathan Glazer accepts an Oscar

Jonathan Glazer on Gaza and the Holocaust Jonathan Glazer on Gaza and the Holocaust

Jewish self-defense or universal rights?

Mar 19, 2024 / Barnett R. Rubin

Broadway opening night for Ibsen’s An Enemy of the People at Circle in the Square Theatre on March 18, 2024.

Protests Are Supposed to Be an Inconvenience Protests Are Supposed to Be an Inconvenience

Critics of the climate activists who interrupted a recent Broadway play are missing the point.

Mar 19, 2024 / Caroline Levine

Photo of Nex Benedict on a table beside candles and flowers

Nex Benedict’s Queer Classmates Say the Biggest Bullies Are the Politicians Nex Benedict’s Queer Classmates Say the Biggest Bullies Are the Politicians

The death of a trans teen catapulted Owasso into national debates about trans rights. But the Oklahoma town’s queer community has been at the center of controversy before.

Mar 19, 2024 / Sarah Baum

Protest Eggs

Protest Eggs Protest Eggs

Hands off Ukraine.

Mar 19, 2024 / OppArt / Martha Lewis

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