What Is Benjamin Netanyahu Really After?
Amos Harel, a defense analyst at Haaretz, on what’s behind Netanyahu’s push to reoccupy Gaza City, and how the Israeli
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How to Prevent More Starvation Deaths in Gaza
As Israel refuses to let in sufficient humanitarian aid, a leading expert on famine explains why even “flooding the zone”
Isaac Chotiner
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Why Netanyahu Decided to Strike Iran Now
The editor-in-chief of Haaretz on how President Trump enabled Israel to carry out an attack years in the making...
Isaac Chotiner
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An Inside Look at Gaza’s Chaotic New Aid System
A humanitarian worker in the territory explains how the situation has devolved in recent weeks—and what she’s doing for her
Isaac Chotiner
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Donald Trump’s Culture of Corruption
How right-wing populism fights graft at the bottom and nurtures it at the top...
Isaac Chotiner
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The Dynamics Behind the Current India-Pakistan Clash
How internal politics in both countries could escalate the conflict in the wake of a tourist massacre in Kashmir...
Isaac Chotiner
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“The Situation Now Is So Beyond Imagination”
A relief worker on how, exactly two months since Israel suspended all aid to Gaza, hundreds of thousands of people
Isaac Chotiner
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The Biden Official Who Doesn’t Oppose Trump’s Student Deportations
Why the Holocaust historian Deborah Lipstadt blames universities for “opening the door” to the Trump Administration’s professed campaign to tackle
Isaac Chotiner
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How Trump’s Tariffs Fit the Autocrat’s Playbook
The President thrives on confrontation and demands supplication. Politicizing the economy creates opportunities for both...
Isaac Chotiner
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What Putin Wants Now
Trump has suspended all military aid to Ukraine in an apparent attempt to bring the country to the negotiating table.
