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This isn't peace

Oct 14, 2025

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8 min read

This isn't peace

It's a ceasefire, and a shaky one at that.

Jonathan M. Katz
Jonathan M. Katz

THE LATEST

Sep 26, 2025

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7 min read

'I'm a very strong person for free speech'

There are no contradictions here. The crackdown was always coming.

Sep 17, 2025

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9 min read

Has Trump found his Reichstag fire?

Or will more people push back in time?

Sep 12, 2025

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10 min read

On political violence

We're going from bad to worse

TRENDING

Far right en marche

Far right en marche

Europe proves again that meeting fascists halfway is a bad strategy

Friday note: Sisyphus edition

Friday note: Sisyphus edition

DeSantis done, 'anti-wokism' still here

DeSantis done, 'anti-wokism' still here

A double Monday repost

Disaster after disaster

Disaster after disaster

Malicious propaganda between hurricanes, and what can be done to stop it

Off the 'Stack

Off the 'Stack

Lose my trust, lose me

Coup complete

Coup complete

From the vault: Who is El Salvador's Nayib Bukele and what does he want?

From the vault: Who is El Salvador's Nayib Bukele and what does he want?

An interview slightly ahead of its time

Fascism

+3

'The worst of the worst'

'The worst of the worst'

Trump's new Guantánamo order portends a chilling future based on an ugly past

Explore the unseen connnections

Behind World Affaris, Politics, Disaster, and More. By Jonathan M. Katz

Past issues

Addicted to war

Jun 20, 2025

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6 min read

Addicted to war

Just one more little Middle Eastern conflict, it'll be painless, they swear

Imperialism

+1

Jonathan M. Katz
Jonathan M. Katz

The endgame for Gaza begins

A look back and forward

Palestine/Israel

+1

May 5, 2025

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8 min read

From the vault: Who is El Salvador's Nayib Bukele and what does he want?

An interview slightly ahead of its time

Fascism

+3

Apr 18, 2025

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5 min read

The free speech event that wasn't

Bari Weiss came to Charlottesville to talk about the future of free speech. She revealed more than she intended to.

Oct 21, 2024

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19 min read

ANALYSIS

Epstein and Empire

Or, what I did on my summer vacation

Imperialism

+1

The endgame for Gaza begins

A look back and forward

Palestine/Israel

+1

The Hub of the Wheel

How Israel became a tool of America's empire

REPORTING

No, the 'UN' didn't lower its standards for declaring a famine in Gaza

Dissecting some denial

Palestine/Israel

+2

'We deserve better.'

A Haitian perspective from Springfield, Ohio

Haiti

+2

My interview with the president

Biden: 'I have made very clear to the Israelis what they have to do in the near term. [And] if they don't, what's going to happen.'

CULTURE

Hypocrisy's vectors

Trump's gifts from Qatar, asylum for Boers, persecuting speech and more

Philosophy

+2

War holiday redux

A Hanukkah repost

My Aunt Rachel

1945–2023

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