A collection of 75 posts
Progressive discourse has become highly adept at identifying oppression, exclusion, and harm. But it is far less capable of understanding the basic conditions of political order.
The brutality the security forces are unleashing in Iran is not an improvisation. It is doctrine.
The Third-Worldist roots of the Islamic Republic.
An Iranian-born political analyst breaks down the origins of Iran’s latest protest movement, the regime’s brutal response, and what a political transition could look like.
The UN Rapporteur’s latest report channels a single-minded contempt for the Jewish state.
Amid the darkness of a communications blackout, Iranians are fighting for their freedom and the totalitarian theocracy under which they have lived since 1979 seems more threatened than ever before.
The Arabs still believe that they are fighting a colonial war against Israel. But they are not.
The fate of the Weimar Republic stands as a warning of what happens when societies and their citizens indulge extremism.
Between the jihad of the “Hamas of Africa” and the new order of the Abraham Accords, the choice in Sudan should be clear.
How activists at Médecins Sans Frontières shape Gaza disinformation.
Obama veterans never understood the Middle East, and they never will.
Fragile ceasefires are holding for now, but the volatile region may be headed for another explosion next year.
How Qatar's ideological reach—from think tanks to media—has stifled dissent and enabled Islamism in the West.
Shadi Hamid has an uneasy conscience, and he doesn’t yet know what to do with it.
Israelis repeatedly warned the Bush administration that invading Iraq would be a disaster.