War
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Books
What’s the Quickest Path to World War III?
In “The Return of Great Powers” and “Up in Arms,” Jim Sciutto and Adam E. Casey consider modern-day superpower conflict…
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World
Strike in Damascus Is an Escalation in Israel’s Undeclared War With Iran
Israel’s bombing of an Iranian Embassy building in Damascus, which killed senior Iranian military and intelligence officials, is a major…
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World
Trump’s Call for Israel to ‘Finish Up’ War Alarms Some on the Right
Recent remarks he made urging an end to the Gaza conflict, with no insistence on freeing Israeli hostages first, were…
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World
Dispute Over Conscription for Ultra-Orthodox Jews Presents New Threat to Netanyahu
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s cabinet is divided about whether ultra-Orthodox Jews should be required to join the Israeli army.
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News
What Would You Have Israel Do to Defend Itself?
There seems to be a broad consensus atop the Democratic Party about the war in Gaza, structured around two propositions.…
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Books
Let’s Say Someone Did Drop the Bomb. Then What?
NUCLEAR WAR: A Scenario, by Annie Jacobsen COUNTDOWN: The Blinding Future of Nuclear Weapons, by Sarah Scoles When it comes…
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Books
Sparks Fly in Spicy New Romances
Romantasy loves to gild its protagonists with royal lineage and awe-inspiring powers, but sometimes we find books that take the…
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World
Blinken Meets With Netanyahu as U.S.-Israel Tensions Rise
The Biden administration accelerated efforts to halt the Gaza war on Friday as Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken met…
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News
When African Women Are Raped, Where Is the Outrage?
In the summer of 2023, while I was negotiating the price of a pair of cloud-shaped wire sunglasses, a man…
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News
How Do You Solve a Problem Like North Korea?
How do you solve a problem like North Korea? Since the end of the Cold War, it seems that every…