The Jim Crow Holy Land The Jim Crow Holy Land
Our own progress against racism in the United States remains too recent, too fragile and too incomplete to go on abetting apartheid in Israel.
Mar 20, 2015 / Phyllis Bennis and Foreign Policy In Focus
At a Jewish Voice For Peace Conference: This Is What Solidarity Looks Like At a Jewish Voice For Peace Conference: This Is What Solidarity Looks Like
When a Palestinian woman went to this Jewish group’s annual conference, she found a growing movement of Jews and other allies.
Mar 20, 2015 / Nadia Hijab
12 Years After Invading, the US Still Has Its Back Turned on Iraqi Refugees 12 Years After Invading, the US Still Has Its Back Turned on Iraqi Refugees
After waiting years for a decision on their visa applications with no explanation for the delay, nine Iraqis are suing the US government they once worked for.
Mar 20, 2015 / Zoë Carpenter
Republicans Loved Netanyahu’s Racist Election Tactics Republicans Loved Netanyahu’s Racist Election Tactics
House GOP lauds Netanyahu’s win as "hard-fought and well-earned."
Mar 20, 2015 / Ali Gharib
Stephen Cohen, Katrina vanden Heuvel and John Mearsheimer: Will American Triumphalism Lead Us to a New Cold War? Stephen Cohen, Katrina vanden Heuvel and John Mearsheimer: Will American Triumphalism Lead Us to a New Cold War?
US liberalism and "democracy promotion" are in part to blame for current tensions with Russia.
Mar 20, 2015 / Stephen F. Cohen and Katrina vanden Heuvel
What It Feels Like to Be a ‘Demographic Threat’ to Israel What It Feels Like to Be a ‘Demographic Threat’ to Israel
Benjamin Netanyahu’s attack on Arab voters was not just an electioneering tactic. Such fear-mongering is rooted in the foundation of the Zionist project in Palestine.
Mar 20, 2015 / Yousef Munayyer
It’s Official: The Pentagon Finally Admitted That Israel Has Nuclear Weapons, Too It’s Official: The Pentagon Finally Admitted That Israel Has Nuclear Weapons, Too
After five decades of pretending otherwise, the Pentagon has reluctantly confirmed that Israel does indeed possess nuclear bombs, as well as awesome weapons technology similar to A...
Mar 20, 2015 / William Greider
Barney Frank’s ‘Stupidest’ Decision Barney Frank’s ‘Stupidest’ Decision
The story Frank tells in his new memoir of Robert McNamara’s visit to Harvard in 1966 is, to put it generously, incomplete.
Mar 20, 2015 / Jon Wiener
Silence and Slow Time Silence and Slow Time
The art of On Kawara.
Mar 20, 2015 / Books & the Arts / Barry Schwabsky
5 Hallmarks of the New American Order 5 Hallmarks of the New American Order
A new kind of governance is being born right before our eyes. Stop pretending it’s not happening.
Mar 19, 2015 / Tom Engelhardt