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Graeme WoodThe Atlantic |
Iran has handed him an opportunity. Can he find a way to blow it? On April 1, Israel killed Mohammad Reza Zahedi, a senior official of the Islamic...
They believe they cannot change Hamas, but they might be able to change their own government. This weekend, Israel withdrew all but one of its...
The fault lines in Russian society have foretold yesterday’s atrocity for literally centuries. A decade ago, when foreign fighters were flowing into...
A Ukrainian military source believes that Russia’s long-range strikes are aimed using satellite imagery provided by U.S. companies. Earlier this...
Determination and sincerity are not the missing ingredients in the Israel-Gaza war. In 1963, the monk Thich Quang Duc soaked himself in gasoline and...
He never quite says what precisely he thinks Russia gets right. Tucker Carlson went to Moscow last week and had an absolute blast. He rode the subway...
Neither of the old men running on a major ticket shows any sign of catastrophic senescence. At the height of the Iran-Contra affair in 1986, Saturday...
The rep’s subpar, conspiracy-peddling poetry is a vulnerable moment that we can all learn from. The critic Harold Bloom once declared that former...
Something is broken in the current policy of brinksmanship with Iran, and something unusual might be needed to restore a status quo. Yesterday, a...
Arguments made before the International Court of Justice earlier this month were infuriating, no matter whose side one took. Waiting to obtain justice...
The U.S. provided a detailed list of steps, symbolic and concrete, that would prevent the West Bank from becoming another front in the war. After the...
Claudine Gay’s defenders erred in trying to suggest that she was a “scholar’s scholar.” In The Best and the Brightest, David Halberstam...
It wants the war to expand. Recently, I drove along Israel’s northern border, west to east. To my American sensibility, it is the best road trip in...
Hamas wants the war to expand. That wish may be granted. Recently, I drove along Israel’s northern border, west to east. To my American sensibility,...
Religion is a sticky and intractable kind of dogma, and if the war is religious, the prospects for negotiated resolution are poor. Recently the Hamas...
And so should everyone else. Maresuke Nogi was always his own toughest critic. Emperor Meiji trusted him and appointed him to high military posts in...
Israel is collectivizing its own sin, the sin of rewarding hostage-taking. Early this morning, Hamas and Israel agreed to a hostage deal: 30 children...
The problem, in short, is that there might be no one who stands ready to replace Israel’s deeply unpopular prime minister. After Hamas’s October 7...
Indirect rule by the Palestinian Authority is a moonshot worth considering. Secretary of State Antony Blinken is now the highest-ranking American...
Israeli-hostage families fear abandonment. Earlier this week, while walking through central Jerusalem, I heard a chant in the distance. War has driven...
Both Hamas and Israel are making up strategies as they go. Three days after Hamas’s attack on Israel, I called the operation a “catastrophic...
They are not the same—and their differences are likely to matter as this war proceeds. Two weeks ago, Hamas declared a “Day of Rage”—an...
Since the Hamas attack, settler violence against Palestinians has intensified in the West Bank. Last week, on a dusty road in the West Bank, I...
“I killed 10 Jews with my own hands.” This afternoon, at a military base north of Tel Aviv, the Israel Defense Forces held a grisly matinee...
The document, which I obtained from an Israeli official, also suggests that Hamas did not plan to take hostages back to Gaza. A hostage-taking manual...
Gazans know that if they leave, they will have to rely on the goodwill of Israel to let them back in and not use this moment to remake the region’s...
A day that started under control, with a coordinated surprise attack by literally thousands of armed men, does not appear to have ended that way. A...
Hamas’s attacks could be a daring single-day raid, or the start of a regional war of a scale not seen since 1973. War is a perpetual concern in...
Emily Wilson’s new translation is inviting to modern readers, but doesn’t capture the barbaric world of the original. Early in Norman Mailer’s ...
The emails look bad When news comes out that someone has suffered an email breach, my first instinct is to pity them and practice extreme charity. I...
The more odious the geopolitical figure, the more urgent the invitation. “Never touch your idols,” Flaubert wrote in Madame Bovary, “for the...