Does the Future Belong to the Taliban?
We make a fatal category error when we assume that fundamentalism is somehow a Middle Eastern or Islamic character flaw.
We make a fatal category error when we assume that fundamentalism is somehow a Middle Eastern or Islamic character flaw.
The far right has jumped on the anti-vaccination bandwagon, seized control of the wheel and is driving the vehicle, al-Qaeda-style, straight into oncoming traffic.
It was exhilarating to have a conventional president after Trump, but conventional is just not good enough.
The only winner in the perennial confrontation between Israel and Hamas is Benjamin Netanyahu.
The COVID-19 pandemic has drawn a clear line between Asia and the rest of the world.
The events of January 6 have prompted many observers, in the United States and abroad, to declare an end to US pretensions to democracy promotion.
Even as the United States fashioned an army, a constabulary and an evolving rule of law, the mob continued to define what it meant to be an American.
If Joe Biden doesn’t address the root causes of the zombification of half the electorate, the new president will be eaten alive.
White men who are all revved up and with no place to go pose the greatest challenge to American democracy.
If he wins a second term, Donald Trump will bring his scorched-earth doctrine to every corner of the globe.