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[ad_1] This article is adapted from the introduction to a new edition of Creating Facts: Israel, Palestinians and the West Bank, published by the Institute for Palestine Studies. The maximalist agenda of Israel’s settlement movement has been energized by the calamity of the Second War for Palestine. The “Conquest” of Gaza, the “Expulsion” of its 2.1 million residents, followed by the “Settlement” of the Gaza Strip are the unabashed objectives of the ideological vanguard of Israel’s twenty-first century settlement movement.  This movement traces its roots, and indeed even its current leaders, to the Park Hotel that marked the inauguration of…

[ad_1] Image by Joshua Hoehne. I woke up this Fourth of July outside the United States, and America followed me everywhere. People wished me a happy Fourth. Some did it casually. Others did it with real excitement, as if they were taking part in the celebration themselves. Back in the United States, people from all over the world have gathered for the World Cup—fans from different countries, cultures and political traditions filling stadiums, streets and cities, eager to experience American food, music, sports and spectacle. There has been something moving about it. The United States remains a country that means…

[ad_1] Michael Anton, Studies in Machiavellian Political Philosophy (New York City and London: Encounter Books, 2026) 451+XVI pp.  Reading Michael Anton’s book of well-wrought essays is like eavesdropping on a private conversation. A deeply committed Straussian, Anton addresses others of his persuasion, among them Tom West, Harvey Mansfield, Leo Paul de Alvarez, and the tutelary spirit of the movement’s founder, Leo Strauss (1899–1973). Although the central theme of this anthology seems to be a proper reading of Machiavelli’s The Prince and Discourses, Anton also incorporates into his analyses other political thinkers (or, as the Straussians refer to them, “political philosophers”).…

[ad_1] On the first and second days of his second term as president of the United States of America, Donald J. Trump issued two Executive Orders, “Ending Radical And Wasteful Government DEI Programs And Preferencing” on January 20, and “Ending Illegal Discrimination and Restoring Merit-Based Opportunity” on January 21.  These two directives serve as a watershed and turning point in, and arguably the end of, a particular era of American history: the rise, and now, the fall, of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI). DEI was the formalized and corporatist articulation of the set of policies that were once bracketed under…

[ad_1] Howard Zinn giving a lecture at MIT on the Myth of American Exceptionalism. (Screen capture from video posted to YouTube.) Even if he had sought it out, it seems unlikely that Howard Zinn ever thought he would achieve the fame that he came his way.  This is one of the essential lessons taken from the new biography of Zinn by Dave Zirin titled The People’s Historian: The Outsized Life of Howard Zinn.  Zirin, who spent time on the road with Zinn several years ago staging public conversations about history, imperialism, and more, provides an overview worthy of the energy…

[ad_1] Ten Years On: The Untold Story of Brexit – Reflections on a Life of Campaigning, by Matthew Elliott “Even now, people call the Brexit vote a victory for right-wing populism … They are right that Brexit was a victory for populism; they are wrong to think it was for the right-wing kind,” says Matthew Elliott in Ten Years On, which is certain to be the most insightful and honest telling of how Brexit happened. The referendum’s 10th anniversary passed in June; the day before, the prime minister, Sir Keir Starmer, resigned. This will mean that in 10 years we’ll…

[ad_1] Former Ruleville, Mississippi, police officer Antonio Wade was sentenced to seven years in federal prison plus three years of supervised release for using his position to extort money. During a traffic stop in 2025, Wade learned the driver was undocumented and exploited that fact to take money from him. Prosecutors said this was not the first time Wade had done it. [ad_2] Source link

[ad_1] Donald Trump returned to office promising to treat the Western Hemisphere as America’s business again, and he has spent eighteen months proving he meant it. On his first day back he ordered Latin American criminal syndicates designated as Foreign Terrorist Organizations, a status that by February 2025 covered the Sinaloa Cartel, the Jalisco New Generation Cartel, and Tren de Aragua. A classified directive in August 2025 authorized Pentagon operations against those groups. Beginning September 2, 2025, American forces started blowing up boats, killing 221 people by mid-July. Then, on January 3, 2026, Delta Force operators lifted Nicolás Maduro out…

[ad_1] My friend Artem Ivanovich Kirpichenok would not hurt a fly. On 2 August 2026, he arrived in Tel Aviv and – somehow – ended up in prison. What we know is that he was arrested by the Shin Bet, Israel’s secret police. There has been no contact with him since. There has been no official reason for his detention. A historian and writer who is unusually gentle and kind has now disappeared into the Israeli prison system. Artem was born and lived in St. Petersburg (Russia), although he lived in Israel for fifteen years and graduated from the Hebrew…

[ad_1] Whitepill: The Online Right and the Making of Trump’s Americaby Scott Greer, Passage Publishing, 2026264 pgs. $34.95 Last month I received an email even more bothersome than the average inbox fodder of a magazine editor. It wasn’t a barely English, 3,000-word cold submission on “the political philosophy of Sydney Sweeney’s subversive sex appeal,” which, come to think of it, would probably do numbers for the website. It was instead about a piece already accepted and published, and it was short. A POLITICO journalist, Daniel Lippman, was doing some investigative reporting. “Hi, The Post republished this American Conservative article,” Lippman…