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Israel's Far-Right Turn Is Nothing New
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Israel's 'Gaza-fication' of the West Bank
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The Widespread Anguish Behind Iran's Defiant Protests
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The OPEC+ Oil Cut and the Lessons of Imperial Overreach
President Biden has pledged that "there will be consequences" for Saudi Arabia for cutting oil production, but will U.S. officials...
What Many Western Experts Keep Getting Wrong About Yemen
In certain corners of Western analysis, the war in Yemen is cast as a strictly sectarian conflict—a dangerously narrow lens...
