Jeffrey Epstein used his political network and financial resources to help broker a security cooperation agreement between the governments of Israel and Mongolia, according to a trove of leaked emails from former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak.
The Palestinian actress and the film’s Palestinian director Annemarie Jacir join Mehdi to talk Oscars, censorship, and the great revolt against the British of 1936.
Commonwealth was dedicated to improving democratic practices. Now it was being wielded to protect a government that had clearly come to power by stealing an election.
Comedy is all about speaking truth to power. That’s why, this weekend, you’ll find America’s hottest knee-slappers jet-setting to Saudi Arabia. The Riyadh Comedy Festival kicks off today in the nation’s capital with an absurdly heavy-hitting lineup: Dave Chappelle, Bill Burr, Kevin Hart, Pete Davidson, Aziz Ansari, and Louis C.K., just to name a few. See, “woke” might have killed free speech in Brooklyn, but it appears to be alive and well in Saudi Arabia—a country whose “years-since-last-executing-a-journalist counter” never seems to reach the double digits.
Tommy marcus is an activist and online influencer, better known by the Instagram handle “Quentin Quarantino.” He’s worked to get refugees safe passage from Afghanistan, used Airbnb to funnel cash to civilians under attack in Ukraine, and raised over $30 million for a variety of humanitarian causes. Now, he’s on his most ambitious mission yet: to break the Israeli siege of Gaza and bring life-saving humanitarian aid as part of the Global Sumud Flotilla. Live from the deck of a boat in the Mediterranean Sea, he recently joined Current Affairs editor-in-chief Nathan J. Robinson to explain why he's heading for Gaza.