Power Plays
rssfeeds-admin Through videos circulating among Senegalese friends in WhatsApp chats, I watched the October 21 ICE...
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Power Plays
Through videos circulating among Senegalese friends in WhatsApp chats, I watched the October 21 ICE...
Antisemitism’s Afterlives
Reviewed: On Antisemitism: A Word in HistoryMark MazowerPenguin Press, $29 In April 2024, six months...
Millenarian Fantasies
In Beirut, we start our days with the latest litany of places and people hit...
The Shadow of Iraq
On March 4, amid the ebb and flow of Baghdad’s infamous traffic, I saw a...
Iran After Khamenei
On Saturday Israel and the United States abruptly launched a large-scale war against Iran—the second...
War on Iran and the Folly of Regime Change
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The War No One Wanted
November 11, 2025, New York City Dear Salih, You asked me to write an essay...
Turning a Blind Eye
Sometime in the mid-1970s, I spent an evening in conversation with Mr. Sperber—a Jewish-Polish émigré...
The Making of the Deportation Machine
Reviewed: The Migrant’s Jail: An American History of Mass IncarcerationBrianna NofilPrinceton University Press, $32 The...