Articles & Videos

We speak with political analyst Trita Parsi, executive vice president of the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, about the latest events in the Middle East. The United States has bombed Iran for multiple days after President Donald Trump declared the ceasefire between the countries to be “over.” Iran says it has retaliated by attacking U.S. military bases and other strategic sites in Bahrain, Kuwait and Qatar. Parsi says the renewal of fighting is “a disastrous development” for chances of a long-term peace and a reset in the U.S.-Iran relationship. “Both countries are in dire need of an end to this war.”

James North, Mondoweiss. The U.S. media is covering up the crime. Gaza doctor Hussam Abu Safiya has been detained by Israel for a year and a half without trial and says his jailers are trying to kill him. His case has made international headlines, yet it is being ignored in the U.S. Why? By now, editors […]

FDI into West Asia, a region tracked by the UN that includes the Gulf, rose 20% last year to nearly $111 billion, with the UAE attracting record numbers.

The rulings are good news for borrowers who work for groups with missions at odds with the Trump administration’s agenda and those nonprofits themselves.

Most people credit policing or the lack of it, but the real story tracks three trends that rose and fell together.

Jackson’s concurrence traces the 14th Amendment to work done by people ‘beyond Congress’ and Black Americans who ‘helped galvanize the push for full equality.’

Despite holding a low opinion of the US president and his negotiators, most Ukrainians have favorable views toward Americans more generally.

Colorado watered down its AI legislation but may still face litigation from the Department of Justice.

The Pentagon recategorized Native religions as ‘other.’ A scholar of Native American and Indigenous Studies explains the implications of that change.