Barack Obama: Humble Realist? Barack Obama: Humble Realist?
Barack Obama's remarkable speech in Cairo yesterday may or may not mark a "new beginning" in America's relations with the Muslim world. Afghanistan, Iran, Pakistan, Isra...
Jun 5, 2009 / The Notion / Eyal Press
A Culture War Casualty A Culture War Casualty
Barnett Slepian was the last abortion provider to be gunned down in America, in 1998--until George Tiller.
Jun 3, 2009 / Editorial / Eyal Press
George Tiller: Casualty of the Culture Wars? George Tiller: Casualty of the Culture Wars?
It's too early to say whether the murder of a Kansas abortion provider will trigger another wave of a type of violence last seen in the 1990s. It is not too early to be struck by t...
Jun 1, 2009 / Editorial / Eyal Press
Remembering Amos Elon Remembering Amos Elon
The world of letters lost an inimitable voice on Monday, when the journalist and historian Amos Elon died in Italy, at the age of eighty-two. For decades, Elon's stylish essays gr...
May 27, 2009 / The Notion / Eyal Press
Israel’s Growing Internal Divide Israel’s Growing Internal Divide
"How long can a relatively large minority be assumed by the majority to be an enemy without in the end actually turning into one? How long can the state exist as a stable pol...
May 20, 2009 / The Notion / Eyal Press
Hungarian Blues Hungarian Blues
I spent much of last year in Hungary, leaving just before the IMF cobbled together a rescue package to prevent the nation's economy from imploding. A full-scale implosion has been...
May 18, 2009 / The Notion / Eyal Press
Roxana Saberi: Journalist, Not Spy Roxana Saberi: Journalist, Not Spy
My colleague Robert Dreyfuss wonders whether Roxana Saberi, the American journalist who was recently released after being sentenced to eight-years in prison in Iran, is as innocent...
May 13, 2009 / The Notion / Eyal Press
Gandhi in Palestine? Gandhi in Palestine?
What would happen if Palestinians launched a movement of nonviolent resistance against the Israeli occupation of the West Bank? Could such a movement achieve what suicide bombings...
May 8, 2009 / The Notion / Eyal Press
Conservative Blues Conservative Blues
It was a bad week for Republicans – those who want their party to appeal beyond the ever-shrinking core of true believers, that is. Take a peek over at the website of The Am...
May 2, 2009 / The Notion / Eyal Press
Jim Webb’s Reading List Jim Webb’s Reading List
My colleague Chris Hayes recently hailed Virginia Senator Jim Webb's admirable crusade against the prison-industrial complex. As Webb mulls how to reform America's busted, bloated...
Apr 28, 2009 / The Notion / Eyal Press