Trump is doing whatever he can to make it impossible for his successor to resolve some of the world’s most intractable problems.
Regions / Israel
The U.S.-brokered pact makes no pretense of peace for Palestinians. Instead, it sharpens a regional coalition against Iran.
The normalization of relations between the UAE and Israel, facilitated by the U.S., props up repressive leaders and harms Palestinians.
The Nonproliferation Treaty was supposed to lead to disarmament. Instead, it’s led to nuclear apartheid — and sooner or later, someone’s going set one off.
For all their overwhelming firepower, the U.S. and its allies can cause a lot of misery in the Middle East, but still can't govern the course of events.
Democrats need to take Trump’s crimes against people and the planet as seriously as those against Joe Biden.
Emboldened by Donald Trump, U.S. allies are leading the charge toward greater authoritarianism in the region.
Without international diplomacy, the Middle East is going to run out of water — and it won't be alone.
An increasingly global campaign to tar the BDS movement as “anti-Semitic” comes as Israel’s staunchest global defenders are increasingly anti-Semites themselves.
The affinity between Trump and Netanyahu is more than personal. It's rooted in a shared fantasy of a perfectly homogeneous society.