The most strident, influential voices in right-wing American politics have ratcheted up their rhetoric on race, with Fox News' Tucker Carlson talking up conspiratorial demographic replacement theories, and "Hillbilly Elegy" author-turned-populist J.D. Vance backing him up, adding his own target: un-American "globalists." Noah Berlatsky explains what he's really saying about Jews.
What just happened in Jordan? Marwan A. Kardoosh steps behind the spin, censorship and rumors of a "fake coup" to assess the extent of Amman's royal crisis and the kingdom's simmering dissent.
Residents of the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Silwan live under the constant pressure of intimidation, extortion and eviction at the hands of well-funded settler groups. Jawad Siyam gives an exceptional first-person account of what it's like.
Thanks to Netanyahu, the regressive, misogynist theocrats of Noam are now within touching distance of political power. Ariela Karmel investigates how a medieval mindview on women threatens today's Israel.
Ahead of Saturday's Armenian Genocide Memorial Day, Eldad Ben Aharon queries the conventional wisdom that the more Israel's relations with Ankara and Erdogan deteriorate, the more likely it is for the Knesset to recognize the Armenian genocide. There's just one problem, he writes: It's not true.
On Sunday, the Oscars will be awarded, and there is one stand-out contender, says Hikmet Karcic: "Quo Vadis, Aida?" It's a harrowing account of the Srebrenica genocide, Serb brutality and UN betrayal – and a stark warning about reliance on the fluctuating conscience of the international community.
