Yoav Peled Before the war, there was what I would call a constitutional counterrevolution, because the constitutional revolution occurred in the 1990s, and this was a great process of liberalization. Since this current government was...
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After the criminal attack launched by Hamas on October 7, 2023, Israelis walk around with an irreconcilable pain in their chests — for the people we lost, for the possible future that was foreclosed, and...
We finally arrived in Gaza at around 7:00 p.m. Since there is no direct route into Gaza, we had to fly into Cairo before making the drive to the Rafah Crossing. I had lost count...
A year after the United Auto Workers’ (UAW) stand-up strike, the union caucus that helped make it possible is setting out to transform locals still stuck in the mud. Its first step is to fight a...
We could be on the brink of World War III. Israel assassinated a Hezbollah leader, Iran bombed Israel, Israel launched a ground invasion of Lebanon, and the United States deployed more troops and fighter jets...
Sometimes I think about the fifty-year-old man living in my mom’s garage. Todd is an affable giant, his red beard and long hair giving him the air of a medieval Viking. But his life is...
A fossil fuel giant with deep ties to Supreme Court justice Neil Gorsuch, along with other powerful pro-business groups, is explicitly pressuring Gorsuch and his fellow justices to rule in favor of oil and gas...
Review of Sex Work in Popular Culture by Lauren Kirshner (University of Toronto, 2024) There is a memorable scene in this year’s film MaXXXine in which a stranger stalks the main character through an alleyway....
In October 2019, British police arrested a couple who had lured sixteen men from the Czech Republic — all of them struggling with homelessness, drug addiction, or both — with promises of jobs and a...
When Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau was first elected in 2015, he embraced immigrants, literally. Images of the prime minister hugging refugees filled newsfeeds, a stark contrast to the border-building rhetoric of Donald Trump in...
A year before a Georgia chemical plant fire engulfed an Atlanta suburb in toxic gas this week, a federal watchdog agency issued a warning: the plant, and others like it, were not covered by regulations...
East Coast longshore workers with the International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA) are returning to work after three raucous days on the picket lines. They received a promise of a $24-an-hour pay raise over six years, bringing...
