Every now and then, a development perfectly embodies everything that’s wrong with an era. The collapse of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) is…

Branko Marcetic
Like many Americans, you may not be aware that hundreds of US troops are currently deployed in Syria, where they’ve been illegally occupying small,…
There was a minor bit of good news in the midst of a chaotic world this week. We can finally stop pretending…
Few Ukrainians have spent as many years of their life fighting authoritarianism as Volodymyr Chemerys. The sixty-year-old Ukrainian human rights campaigner’s record…
The Biden administration has thankfully lifted the sanctions on Syria to provide for earthquake relief. It’s a good first step. The next:…
Nearly a year in, the war in Ukraine has cost hundreds of thousands of lives and brought the world to the brink…
When the United States involves itself militarily in a conflict, it often finds it hard to get itself out, let alone avoid…
Pop quiz: Was the kind of thing that took place on January 6, 2021 an attempt to overturn democracy, and should those…
The sky is falling in Washington as the nation looks poised to plunge into an unspeakable crisis. Sure, millions of kids around…
The so-called Twitter Files, which started being released at the start of December, have so far generated a lot more discussion of…