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Palestinian evacuees from Beit Hanoun, in the north of the Gaza Strip, seek refuge at the Islamic University, which was previously bombed, to stay inside following Israeli evacuation orders in Gaza City on March 21, 2025.

Trump’s New Middle Eastern Wars Trump’s New Middle Eastern Wars

On this episode of The Time of Monsters, Yousef Munayyer on the end of the ceasefire and the return of regional strife.

Mar 23, 2025 / Podcast / Jeet Heer

JKF riding in a car through a parade.

JFK Assassination: The Final Secrets JFK Assassination: The Final Secrets

The release of the John F. Kennedy papers sets a standard for transparency that must also be applied to the current administration.

Mar 21, 2025 / Peter Kornbluh

A woman cries while sitting on the rubble of her house, destroyed in an Israeli strike, in the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza Strip on March 18, 2025.

Israel’s Renewed Assault on Gaza Is a Prelude to Mass Expulsion Israel’s Renewed Assault on Gaza Is a Prelude to Mass Expulsion

With Trump’s green light for ethnic cleansing, Israel’s return to war threatens to become an all-out effort to empty the enclave of Palestinians.

Mar 21, 2025 / Ben Reiff

Huthi fighters check the damage in an area struck by a US air strike in Sanaa on March 20, 2025.

Israel Breaks the Ceasefire, US Bombs Yemen, DRC Fighting Continues Israel Breaks the Ceasefire, US Bombs Yemen, DRC Fighting Continues

On this episode of American Prestige, headlines from around the globe.

Mar 21, 2025 / Podcast / Daniel Bessner and Derek Davison

Eric Schmidt, David S. Cohen, General Mark A. Milley, Alex Karp, and Andrew Ross Sorkin speak for The Ash Carter Exchange on Innovation and National Security panel during the AI Expo for National Competitiveness on May 7, 2024, in Washington, DC.

At This Point, Silicon Valley Militarists Aren’t Just Greedy—They’re Bloodthirsty At This Point, Silicon Valley Militarists Aren’t Just Greedy—They’re Bloodthirsty

By all means, let’s unite around a common purpose. But that purpose shouldn’t be a supposedly more efficient way to build killing machines.

Mar 21, 2025 / William D. Hartung

University of Austin founder Bari Weiss interviews Texas GOP Senator Ted Cruz at a DC inauguration-weekend event cohosted by Weiss's publication The Free Press.

How a Free-Speech University Sidles Up to Orbán’s Strongman Rule How a Free-Speech University Sidles Up to Orbán’s Strongman Rule

Bari Weiss's University of Austin, touted as a haven for free academic inquiry, has a dozen scholars and officials with ties to Hungary's speech-suppressing regime

Mar 20, 2025 / Jacqueline Sweet

Canada’s Tech Leaders Want Their Own DOGE

Canada’s Tech Leaders Want Their Own DOGE Canada’s Tech Leaders Want Their Own DOGE

On this episode of Tech Won't Save Us, Jen St. Denis on the political ideology of Canada's tech executives.

Mar 20, 2025 / Podcast / Paris Marx

When They Came for Columbia University

When They Came for Columbia University When They Came for Columbia University

The university has become the Trump administration’s test case for the largest assault on higher education since the McCarthy era. Sadly, it has notably failed to defend itself.

Mar 19, 2025 / Column / David Klion

President Donald Trump and White House senior adviser, Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk sit in a Tesla Model S on the South Lawn of the White House on March 11, 2025, in Washington, DC.

Trump’s Economics—and America’s Economy Trump’s Economics—and America’s Economy

You can’t make America great again by wrecking the government.

Mar 19, 2025 / James K. Galbraith

Mario Savio, a leader of the University of California Free Speech Movement, center, with Jack Weinberg and Susan Goldberg and other arrested demonstrators during their trial, Berkeley, California, 1965.

America Needs a New Free Speech Movement America Needs a New Free Speech Movement

Donald Trump is showing us what an unaccountable class of corporate decision-makers looks like—and it looks like a lot of fear, and a terrible loss of freedom.

Mar 19, 2025 / Zephyr Teachout

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