“Democracy or global supremacy.”

“Democracy or global supremacy.”

Democratic Party delegates must choose one come August. In this brief note, the novelist Peter Dimock calls upon Americans to reject Joe Biden’s desperate bid for a second presidential term by prevailing on the four thousand-plus delegates to the Democratic…

"In the shade of an olive tree."

“In the shade of an olive tree.”

A grandmother remembers al–Nakba. Note to readers: After ruminating on this matter, and with the encouragement of various people who have written to us, we have decided to make our Palestinian Voices series freely available to everyone: There will be no paywalls…

"From the Service Desk."

“From the Service Desk.”

A note to readers. We had a welcome surprise in the mail the other day. Readers will be familiar with Guy Mettan’s recent “Report from Donbas,” a two-part series recounting his travels in the Luhansk and Donetsk republics, which voted,…

"Back from the West Bank."

“Back from the West Bank.”

Chas Freeman’s question has haunted me since he first articulated it three months ago in a conversation with Aaron Maté and Katie Halper on Useful Idiots podcast:  Does Israel have a right to exist [is] a rather strange question because it does…

"In Ukraine, a war for memory."

“In Ukraine, a war for memory.”

To destroy the shared past of a people is to go some way toward destroying a people—the coherence and solidity of their identity, their ability to think and act collectively, their collective confidence in themselves, altogether their place in the…

“Report from Donbas.”

“Report from Donbas.”

‘I am simply bearing witness.’ When I first read Guy Mettan’s report from Donbas I felt as if he had transported me to an antipodean universe of some kind. You can take this, as I do, as a measure of…