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Although long used to all manner of wars, Lebanon is watching in stunned disbelief as catastrophe strikes with an unprecedented violence. Everyone here remembers that in 2000, under pressure from Hezbollah, Israel withdrew from the...

While the true extent of Iran’s retaliatory attacks on Israel remains unclear, the Islamic Republic has for two weeks managed to strike both military and civilian infrastructure across Israel. Verified video, reported by Fox News...

With US-Israeli bombs continuing to fall on Iran and Lebanon, one might have expected American leftists to be focused on antiwar outreach in our neighborhoods, schools, and workplaces. The next No Kings protest is on...

Pakistan’s defense minister, Khawaja Asif, recently said that the country is in a state of “open war” with Afghanistan. Asif issued this statement after Islamabad launched air strikes deep inside its neighbor’s territory. Both countries...

Every third Friday in March, the American medical establishment celebrates Match Day. There are media walls emblazoned with school logos, clusters of balloons, and an unseen algorithm that calculates the perfect distribution of thousands of...

According to this latest NBC News poll, 67 percent of Democrats say that their sympathies lie with Palestinians over Israelis. This is an astonishing sea change in the opinion of a major part of the...

Vilfredo Pareto’s Treatise on General Sociology has long been considered one of the seminal works of modern sociology. One list even ranked it among the hundred most influential books ever written in Western history. Pareto’s...

Bowed by the weight of centuries he leansUpon his hoe and gazes on the ground,The emptiness of ages in his face,And on his back the burden of the world. So begins Edwin Markham’s lionized poem...

Less than three years after the disruptions of the pandemic and the war in Ukraine subsided, the world economy confronts another sustained energy and supply chain shock. The war launched by the United States and...

This month’s local elections in France may not turn out to be such a debacle after all. A far cry from the nationalist and conservative wave that many had feared, left-wing candidates are reasonably well...

I suppose if there’s a hell and I die and go there, Reminders of Him will be the only movie available, and it will play every day in mandatory screenings. Based on a novel by...

“No to war and free Palestine,” said Spanish actor and Oscar presenter Javier Bardem, who’s a mensch and a lefty stalwart. He got a big cheer from the audience at the 98th Academy Awards ceremony...