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October 24, 2024
Edith Olmsted
Jared Kushner May Finally Face the Music on His Shady Business Deals
Two Democratic lawmakers are seeking to hold Donald Trump’s son-in-law to account.
December 4, 2023
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
What Was COP28 President Thinking With His “No Science” Fossil Fuel Claim?
The president of the COP28 climate summit, the UAE’s Sultan Al Jaber, made an absurd claim about fossil fuels.
May 12, 2023
Casey Michel
Biden Is Letting Think Tanks and Dodgy Foreign Funders Get Cozy Again
One of the only good transparency innovations of the Trump era has come to a quiet end.
February 8, 2023
Alex Shephard
Relegate Manchester City
The Premier League needs to punish its most successful team if it wants to save itself from disrepute.
March 11, 2022
Jordan Michael Smith
Should Biden Really Be Begging Saudi Arabia and Venezuela for Oil?
In the short term, there may be little choice in the matter. But it’s bad environmentally—and politically, if they don’t budge.
January 13, 2022
Trita Parsi, Annelle Sheline
Biden’s Shameful Silence on Saudi Arabia’s War in Yemen
The president vowed to end the war. But the U.S. keeps selling weapons to Saudi Arabia, which keeps using them to wreak misery in Yemen.
August 20, 2020
Trita Parsi
The Israel-UAE Deal Puts the “Forever” in “Forever War”
What binds Israel and its new Arab allies is not the threat from Iran but the threat of the U.S. military leaving the Middle East.
May 22, 2019
Tyler Bellstrom
War With Iran Would Benefit the Emirates, Not the U.S.
With legislators and public alike focused on Saudi influence, another Gulf country's lobbying efforts are flying under the radar.
August 1, 2018
Jeet Heer
Was Rex Tillerson fired for trying to prevent a Middle Eastern war?
May 11, 2018
Peter Vanham
Why Do-Gooders Love Development Statistics
Sure: dictators do, too. But development stats, properly weighted, can be a tool for change.
June 9, 2017
Jeet Heer
Trump just contradicted his own secretary of state—again.
June 5, 2017
Jeet Heer
This is what happens when you embolden Saudi Arabia.
May 27, 2011
Haley Sweetland Edwards
Eleventh Hour
May 5, 2011
Martin Peretz
Tel Aviv Journal: Bin Laden, Israel, and Obama
March 20, 2011
Michael Walzer
The Case Against Our Attack on Libya
December 16, 2010
Abbas Milani
Truths in Tehran
July 29, 2010
Martin Peretz
Who’s The Happiest One Of All?
July 7, 2010
Martin Peretz
The U.A.E. Knows Iran Very Well. It Does Not Believe Obama Can Stop Tehran’s Atomic Program. What It Wants Is For Us To Bomb It. To Smithereens.
June 10, 2010
Stefan Fatsis
Pondering American Imperialism in Dubai, En Route to Johannesburg
April 27, 2010
Ben Birnbaum
Minority Report

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