Informed Comment

“If I must die”: Poetry from Gaza creates an alternative Archive of Testimony

In the era of 24-hour news cycles and never-ending scrolling, why does poetry in times of crisis still matter?

Long before Israelis invoked the bible erase a Palestinian homeland another colonizing people sought to remake a land in the image of their God

The Trump administration announced a new plan to open 1.3 billion acres of coastal waters to new oil and gas drilling

Address Concerns Before Window for Rights-Respecting Transition Closes

Mongols of the Golden Horde catapulted the cadavers of plague victims over the wall of the city of Caffa

New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani has repeatedly stated that he would instruct the NYPD to arrest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu

The United States remains mired in ongoing wars in the Middle East and Ukraine; now Trump is careening blindly into new wars in Latin America

2024 was the hottest year on record in the Middle East, around 1º Celsius (1.8º F.) hotter than the average for 1990-2020

This is not Netanyahu asking for a pardon so much as an attempt by the prime minister to portray himself as a great man wronged by the elite