Three Palestinian journalists – including longtime CBS News freelance cameraman Abed Shaat – were killed on Wednesday, January 21, when an Israeli airstrike hit their vehicle in the Al-Zahra area southwest of Gaza City, according to Gaza’s civil defense agency. The...
President Donald Trump is considering a range of options to force regime change in Iran. According to Middle East Eye, Arab officials said that Washington is considering strikes against high-level targets in Tehran. A former US intelligence official familiar with the...
Greenland on the table, NATO on edge, and an algorithm deciding who gets a knock at the door. We dive into President Trump’s Davos remarks claiming the U.S. will pursue Greenland, then trace the fallout across European capitals as Denmark draws a hard line on...
J. G. Michael invited me on his podcast to talk about the U.S. immigration agents' recent murders of two American citizens in Minneapolis.
It’s hard to enjoy the writings of Franz Kafka, though in some of his story telling we find a reflection of the contemporary or perhaps a dirty glass panel into the past. In his book, The Trial, we experience a bureaucracy of inhumanity through the eyes of an unnamed...
This month a statement from leaders of some of the most ancient Christian churches around Jerusalem condemned “damaging ideologies, such as Christian Zionism” that “mislead the public” and “sow confusion” that “have found favor among certain political actors in Israel...
Donald Trump presented himself as someone who would end America's perpetual conflicts and chart a fresh course in global affairs. Supporters routinely placed him alongside noninterventionist figures such as Pat Buchanan and Ron Paul, insisting he would deliver...
A letter about the Nobel Peace Prize. A claim that America needs “complete and total control of Greenland.” And a war that almost started, then didn’t. We follow the thread from ego-driven spectacle to real-world consequences, unpacking how image-making can bend...
Israel is attempting to condition the reopening of the Rafah border crossing on more Palestinians exiting the Strip than returning to Gaza. Under the peace deal Israel and Hamas signed in October, Tel Aviv agreed to reopen the Rafah border crossing. However, Israel...
Jared Kushner arrived at the World Economic Forum in Davos with a redevelopment pitch for Gaza: sleek high-rises, new roads, a rebuilt airport, and a modern port on the Mediterranean, under the umbrella of President Donald Trump’s newly chartered “Board of Peace.” In...
