The Return of the Nuclear Threat The Return of the Nuclear Threat
While most of the world looked away, a new nuclear arms race has broken out between the US, Russia, and China, raising the risk of nuclear confrontation to the highest in decades....
May 19, 2025 / Feature / Jimmy Tobias
The Biden Scandal Goes Well Beyond the Aging Cover-Up The Biden Scandal Goes Well Beyond the Aging Cover-Up
The former president’s stubbornness and narcissism led to disastrous Trump victory.
May 16, 2025 / Jeet Heer
The Nakba Has Never Ended The Nakba Has Never Ended
In Gaza, the boundary marking past and present has become indistinct. Nineteen forty-eight is not over—it is unfolding again, and in more violent and destructive ways.
May 15, 2025 / Huda Skaik
Do Not Forget That India and Pakistan Could Still End Up in a Nuclear War Do Not Forget That India and Pakistan Could Still End Up in a Nuclear War
May 13, 2025 Do Not Forget That India and Pakistan Could Still End Up in a Nuclear War Even after a ceasefire, the standoff over Kashmir risks escalating into something far worse i…
May 13, 2025 / Wolf Hertzberg
Letters From the June 2025 Issue Letters From the June 2025 Issue
Boys don’t cry… A call to action… The war party… Traveling to Cuba… Bill vs. Hill… Burning questions… The best medicine… Correction…
May 13, 2025 / Our Readers
India’s Attack on Pakistan Was a Strategic Flop India’s Attack on Pakistan Was a Strategic Flop
It was a conflict with no winners. But in the end, India lost.
May 12, 2025 / Hasan Ali
What It Feels Like to Starve What It Feels Like to Starve
What we are witnessing now in Gaza is not a famine of nature. It is famine as a weapon of mass destruction.
May 12, 2025 / Mohammed R. Mhawish
Israel Is Spiraling Israel Is Spiraling
The government’s genocidal fervor is ripping through the carefully constructed layers of self-delusion that power this country.
May 12, 2025 / Ori Goldberg
Why Pete Hegseth Still Has a Job Why Pete Hegseth Still Has a Job
Hegseth is terrible at every part of his job except the one that matters to Trump—a willingness to break with norms that keep the military in check.
May 12, 2025 / Laura Jedeed