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A person views Pablo Picasso’s “Guernica” at the Museo Reina Sofia in Madrid on April 3, 2017.

Art During Wartime Art During Wartime

Can it really be that to call for sympathy with victims of murder and kidnapping is necessarily to demand violence in return?

Mar 14, 2024 / Barry Schwabsky

Three generations from the village of Dhahiriyya (located between Hebron and Beersheba), February 9, 1940.

What Was Palestine Before the Nakba? What Was Palestine Before the Nakba?

A stunning photo archive reveals a time before the walls and checkpoints, when Palestine was not defined by its ailments but by its industries and cultures

Mar 14, 2024 / Feature / Mohammed El-Kurd

Biden Afghanistan speech

Requiem for the Biden of the Afghanistan Withdrawal Requiem for the Biden of the Afghanistan Withdrawal

The brightest moment in the president’s foreign policy feels like light from a dead star. The Biden of that moment would stop aiding Israeli war crimes.

Mar 13, 2024 / Column / Spencer Ackerman

Karine Jean-Pierre, Matthew Miller, and John Kirby.

Biden’s Spokespeople Are the Perfect Vessels for His Soulless Gaza Policies Biden’s Spokespeople Are the Perfect Vessels for His Soulless Gaza Policies

If the president is the man in charge, these press secretaries are his robotic enforcers, playing the same hollow tunes every day.

Mar 13, 2024 / Y.L. Al-Sheikh

The USA Dropped 266 Million Bombs During the “Secret War” in Laos

The USA Dropped 266 Million Bombs During the “Secret War” in Laos The USA Dropped 266 Million Bombs During the “Secret War” in Laos

80 million pieces of unexploded ordnance continue to kill and injure people all around the country. Photos taken at The Cooperative Orthotic and Prosthetic Enterprise (COPE) Center...

Mar 12, 2024 / OppArt / Andrea Arroyo

President Joe Biden joined Israel's prime minister for the start of the Israeli war cabinet meeting, in Tel Aviv on October 18, 2023.

The Tragic Absurdity of Biden’s Gaza Policies The Tragic Absurdity of Biden’s Gaza Policies

The US government is making elaborate plans to ameliorate a humanitarian catastrophe that would not exist without its own bombs.

Mar 12, 2024 / Jack Mirkinson

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Letters From the March 2024 Issue Letters From the March 2024 Issue

Plain speaking… Buck Big Ag…

Mar 12, 2024 / Our Readers

Jonathan Glazer reading acceptance speech

Jonathan Glazer’s Brave Oscar Speech Represents the Best of Judaism Jonathan Glazer’s Brave Oscar Speech Represents the Best of Judaism

Instead of confronting what the director of The Zone of Interest actually said, Zionists distorted his lines.

Mar 11, 2024 / Dave Zirin

Alabama Senator Katie Britt in a kitchen

Senator Katie Britt: A Star Is Not Born Senator Katie Britt: A Star Is Not Born

The Alabaman’s disastrous debut was so weird even Scarlett Johansson—who’s played everything from a man-eating alien to Black Widow to Maggie the Cat—couldn’t do it justice.

Mar 11, 2024 / Jeet Heer

Pro-Palestine banners on a building with Starbucks logo in foreground

How the Palestinian Justice Movement Helped Starbucks Workers United How the Palestinian Justice Movement Helped Starbucks Workers United

Starbucks worker organizing produced a historic union breakthrough, and this victory came about in part because of solidarity with Palestine.

Mar 11, 2024 / Jonathan Rosenblum

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