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During a Cabinet meeting on March 26, the president interrupted a war briefing to deliver a five-minute monologue about a pen. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, envoy Steve Witkoff, Vice President JD Vance, and Secretary of State Marco Rubio had just off…
Israel. The state whose founding narrative is the exodus from slavery remembered and taught as avadim hayinu has voted against a resolution that says slavery was a crime against humanity. They voted during the season when every Jewish family is command…
The Last Princesses of Punjab opens on Thursday at Kensington PalaceThe extraordinary life of an exiled Punjabi princess, embraced by the British royal court and a goddaughter of Queen Victoria, but who would become a pioneering suffragette and challen…
Die New York Times möchte uns glauben machen, dass Berliner in Kriegszeiten „einfach weitergemacht” hätten, statt die Stadt zu verlassen. Ian Buruma hat etwas geschrieben, das er einen „Liebesbrief” an die Stadt nennt – für all jene, die am…
In 1996, the CIA ran a covert operation to overthrow Saddam Hussein. It was the third such order from the White House in five years. The agency backed exiles in London and Jordan, recruited Iraqi military officers, and tried to unite Kurdish factions i…
The Associated Press published a piece this week warning that Israel’s decapitation strategy in Iran “could backfire.” The article quotes scholars who note that killing leaders tends to radicalize successors, spike civilian violence, …
I sat down to watch a production of John Logan’s Red. The actors landed a distinct “Oy.” They invoked Rothko’s Russian roots and his abrupt landing as a Jewish boy in America. They channeled a cadence of immigrant memory with en…
The most consequential fraud in modern technology is not happening in the code. It is happening in the units. If you ever studied the collapse of Soviet economics, you know exactly what I’m about to explain. AI companies have built a billing infr…
The Department of War. The Secretary of War. The wartime spend. The wartime rhetoric. The wartime dead. We are supposed to believe none of the above means Iran is a war. Hegseth says he needs $200 billion to keep his non-war war running indefinitely wi…
Today should become a national American holiday: Lemon Pound Cake Day. An Ohio jury just delivered one of the clearest freedom verdicts in recent memory. It took less than a day to throw out all thirteen claims of defamation, invasion of privacy, the l…