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As the Iran War Continues, Trump Loyalists Abandon the Supreme Leader
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MAGA Is Mad

Pakistan’s Strikes Tear Open the Afghan Sky
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Afghanistan, Pakistan

Kabul Wakes to Jets

The Academic Justification for Male Supremacy
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Epstein’s Academics

Jeffrey Epstein funded academic research to the tune of around $20 million per year. As the names of academics started appearing in news headlines, I checked the Epstein files myself, which revealed the names of old associates and painted a picture of a cozy circle of mutually supporting elites.

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Alawite Politics After Assad
In Lebanon, There Are No More Clever Exits
The Questions Facing Kristi Noem and ICE
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United States

Kristi Noem’s ICE Storm

Meet the Kurdish Militias Trump and Netanyahu Wanted To Enlist
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Iraq, Iran

Kurdish Militias Hold Their Fire

The Uncanny Echoes of Iraq in Trump’s War With Iran
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United States

Uncanny Echoes

Along an Increasingly Tense Border, Calls for Revenge Are Mounting
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Syria, Lebanon

The Pull of Retribution

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In the Shadow of the Ayatollah’s Death, War Comes to Iran

In the Shadow of the Ayatollah’s Death, War Comes to Iran

Iran
The Dilemmas of America’s Iranian Diaspora
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United States, Iran

Tehrangeles Syndrome

‘Those Who Wrap Themselves in America Are Naked’
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Middle East, Iran

The Iran War and Its Gulf Discontents

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Libya

The Fugitive Heir

An Airstrike Hit an Iranian Emergency Medical Base in Shiraz, Killing 20
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Iran

Airstrike Kills Iranian First Responders

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Lydia Wilson
Lydia Wilson

"Words have been shown as inadequate against the military might of Israel, buttressed by the most powerful countries in the world. We are all impotent witnesses, unable to prevent the atrocities we have been watching for almost 22 long and cruel months. What use are more words? And is it really my place to be the amanuensis of Palestinians?"

Paul Apostolidis
Paul Apostolidis

"People can start to think and feel differently about who bears which costs of our common life when they take the chance of telling and listening to stories of different immigrant groups — together. This makes it possible to sense the profound resonances between, for instance, Greek and Mexican immigrant experiences as well as the jarring ways that such experiences are 'really different.'"

Olivia Snaije
Olivia Snaije

"In literature, there is an unquestioned acceptance of a cultural dominance that is situated in the east, whether formerly in Baghdad or Damascus, or more currently in Cairo, Beirut and increasingly in the Gulf. While Arabic-language literature from the Maghreb does travel east, writers from sub-Saharan Africa feel they are overlooked in the Middle East."

Waleed Nasir
Waleed Nasir

"Pakistan must make a case for “constructive multi-alignment,” finding ways to be a strategic asset to both the U.S. and China, argued Yusuf and Akhtar. But it cannot do that while it continues to be mired in political instability, economic degradation, surging violence from nonstate actors and a hostile neighborhood."