Why Netanyahu Bolstered Hamas Why Netanyahu Bolstered Hamas
The Israeli prime minister followed a decades-old divide-and-rule strategy that fuels endless war.
Dec 11, 2023 / Jeet Heer
On the 75th Anniversary of the Declaration of Human Rights On the 75th Anniversary of the Declaration of Human Rights
How Eleanor Roosevelt's leadership made her the “First Lady of the World.”
Dec 8, 2023 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Biden’s Bear Hug of Netanyahu Is a Disaster Biden’s Bear Hug of Netanyahu Is a Disaster
The renewed fighting between Israel and Hamas shows the incoherence of mixing humanitarian words and bigger bombs.
Dec 4, 2023 / Jeet Heer
If Narendra Modi Is Running a Global Death Squad, He’ll Be Protected by the Kissinger Doctrine If Narendra Modi Is Running a Global Death Squad, He’ll Be Protected by the Kissinger Doctrine
Trying to murder American citizens on American soil is no big deal—so long as the foreign policy elite likes you.
Dec 1, 2023 / Jeet Heer
Time for a Transnational Uprising Against a Reckless Escalation of the Arms Race? Time for a Transnational Uprising Against a Reckless Escalation of the Arms Race?
The specter of omnicide looms.
Nov 21, 2023 / Norman Solomon
San Francisco’s Potemkin Village San Francisco’s Potemkin Village
For President Biden’s meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping at the APEC summit in San Francisco this week, Governor Gavin Newsom transformed the city into a façade of prosperi...
Nov 17, 2023 / Sasha Abramsky
Two Cheers for Isolationism Two Cheers for Isolationism
The left should be arguing that the US’s purpose is its own redevelopment—which is incompatible with global primacy.
Nov 17, 2023 / Jeff Faux
The US and Israel Think They Can Decide Gaza’s Future. Here’s Why They’re Wrong. The US and Israel Think They Can Decide Gaza’s Future. Here’s Why They’re Wrong.
Biden and Netanyahu are clinging to old imperial models about what to do with Gaza. But their plans are doomed to fail.
Nov 17, 2023 / Mohammad Alsaafin
An Indigestible Nation An Indigestible Nation
While the world has changed and threats are different, the Biden administration’s worldview is rooted in the assumption that America is the “indispensable nation” that will police...
Nov 16, 2023 / Katrina vanden Heuvel and Robert L. Borosage
The Single Most Dangerous Expansion of Fossil Fuel in the World The Single Most Dangerous Expansion of Fossil Fuel in the World
America’s growing exports of liquefied natural gas pose a grave climate danger.
Nov 15, 2023 / Bill McKibben