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Joe Biden looks into the camera.

In America, Funding War Is a Smart Investment—but Providing Healthcare Isn’t In America, Funding War Is a Smart Investment—but Providing Healthcare Isn’t

Why isn’t Biden, who chafes at the suggestion that our superpowers might be insufficient to sustain two wars, more indignant that caring for people is our kryptonite?

Nov 10, 2023 / Kali Holloway

Senator Dianne Feinstein participates in a reenacted swearing-in with her husband Richard C. Blum and then–Vice President Joe Biden in the Old Senate Chamber at the US Capitol January 3, 2013, in Washington, D.C.

How Old Is Too Old to Run for Office? How Old Is Too Old to Run for Office?

President Biden is still sharper than the competition. But the effect of aging political figures’ clinging to their positions has sometimes been detrimental.

Nov 10, 2023 / Sasha Abramsky

A boy is seen as the psychological support team of the Palestinian Ministry of Health provides psychological and recreational support to the children who take shelter at the Nassr hospital as the Israeli attack continues in Khan Yunis, Gaza on November 9, 2023.

This War Is Causing Mass Trauma. How We Respond Matters. This War Is Causing Mass Trauma. How We Respond Matters.

Too often, trauma has been used to justify more trauma. It is time to break that cycle.

Nov 10, 2023 / Alex Colston

Missouri Abortion Rights

With Abortion Winning on the Ballot, Will Republicans Double Down on a Failing Strategy? With Abortion Winning on the Ballot, Will Republicans Double Down on a Failing Strategy?

The GOP is increasingly ditching labels like “pro-life” and calling for abortion “limits” rather than bans. But some activists and state officials in Missouri continue to bet on t...

Nov 10, 2023 / StudentNation / Molly Morrow

Israeli soldiers prepare to arrest Palestinians in the village of Shweika, near Tulkarm, in the northern West Bank.

The West Bank Is the Unseen Second Front of Israel’s War on Gaza The West Bank Is the Unseen Second Front of Israel’s War on Gaza

Emboldened by the world’s silence, Israeli settlers are working hand in hand with the military to terrorize Palestinians throughout the West Bank.

Nov 10, 2023 / Fathi Nimer

Donald Trump, “Stone Cold” Steve Austin, and Vince McMhaon at a press conference before Wrestlemania 23, 2007.

The Misunderstood History of American Wrestling The Misunderstood History of American Wrestling

A recent biography of WWE executive Vince McMahon presents him as an entertainment tycoon who changed culture and politics. The real story of his rise is as banal as it is brutal....

Nov 10, 2023 / Books & the Arts / Nadine Smith

Smaller Group Of Candidates Attends Third GOP Presidential Debate

Republicans Beat the War Drums at an “Unhinged” Debate Republicans Beat the War Drums at an “Unhinged” Debate

Last night, the GOP presidential candidates—with one notable exception—competed to demonstrate greater bloodlust.

Nov 9, 2023 / Chris Lehmann

Representative Rashida Tlaib addresses the crowd as Jewish Voice for Peace holds a large rally and civil disobedience action at the US Capitol, in Washington, D.C.

Rashida Tlaib: “The Cries of the Palestinian and Israeli Children Sound No Different to Me” Rashida Tlaib: “The Cries of the Palestinian and Israeli Children Sound No Different to Me”

Representative Rashida Tlaib speaks to Congress on the resolution to censure her.

Nov 9, 2023 / Rashida Tlaib

MONSTERS

MONSTERS MONSTERS

Destroying everything in their path.

Nov 9, 2023 / OppArt / Ruben Bolling

Hayim Katsam with soldiers and security forces in the West Bank.

My Brother Was Slaughtered on October 7. I Know He Would Be Calling for a Cease-Fire. My Brother Was Slaughtered on October 7. I Know He Would Be Calling for a Cease-Fire.

If the only justification for Israel’s war on Gaza is to avenge deaths like his, the moral stain would be impossible for him to stomach.

Nov 9, 2023 / Noy Katsman

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