Sustainable change requires credible Palestinian leadership.
Gaza Needs Justice and Self-Determination, Not a Board of Peace
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Middle East & North Africa
U.S.–Iran Military Engagement: Likely Scenarios
The Trump administration has threatened not only targeted strikes against Iran but a more prolonged military engagement.
Europe’s IRGC Designation: Symbolism over Strategy
Once a balancer and mediator, the EU has made itself largely irrelevant.
The Anti-War Majority That Can’t Find Its Voice
Americans opposed a war with Iran, so where are the street protests?
The Pahlavi Mirage
What—or who—is the alternative to the current regime in Tehran?
The Disappearance of Palestine?
International support for a Palestinian state has never been stronger, but the territory that could be included in such a state is disappearing like sand in an hourglass.
Trump Doesn’t Understand How Power Works in Iraq
The problem is not Nouri al-Maliki.
What Iran Teaches Us About Minneapolis
This is what the possibility of war is like for an Iranian-American.
When Protest Becomes Foreign Policy
Solidarity spoken from afar is never neutral, and the costs of its consequences are rarely borne by those who speak the loudest.
Shooting Protesters from Minneapolis to Tehran
Trump’s denunciations of the Iranian killings ring fatally hollow.