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Strike in Damascus Is an Escalation in Israel’s Undeclared War With Iran

Israel’s bombing of an Iranian Embassy building in Damascus, which killed senior Iranian military and intelligence officials, is a major…

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Trump’s Call for Israel to ‘Finish Up’ War Alarms Some on the Right

Recent remarks he made urging an end to the Gaza conflict, with no insistence on freeing Israeli hostages first, were…

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Dispute Over Conscription for Ultra-Orthodox Jews Presents New Threat to Netanyahu

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s cabinet is divided about whether ultra-Orthodox Jews should be required to join the Israeli army.

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What Would You Have Israel Do to Defend Itself?

There seems to be a broad consensus atop the Democratic Party about the war in Gaza, structured around two propositions.…

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Let’s Say Someone Did Drop the Bomb. Then What?

NUCLEAR WAR: A Scenario, by Annie Jacobsen COUNTDOWN: The Blinding Future of Nuclear Weapons, by Sarah Scoles When it comes…

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Sparks Fly in Spicy New Romances

Romantasy loves to gild its protagonists with royal lineage and awe-inspiring powers, but sometimes we find books that take the…

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Blinken Meets With Netanyahu as U.S.-Israel Tensions Rise

The Biden administration accelerated efforts to halt the Gaza war on Friday as Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken met…

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When African Women Are Raped, Where Is the Outrage?

In the summer of 2023, while I was negotiating the price of a pair of cloud-shaped wire sunglasses, a man…

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How Do You Solve a Problem Like North Korea?

How do you solve a problem like North Korea? Since the end of the Cold War, it seems that every…

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Philippe de Gaulle, Admiral and Son of Charles de Gaulle, Dies at 102

His exploits in World War II and later in Algeria and Indochina were not enough for him emerge from the…

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