There’s no “national interest” worth risking nuclear conflict. But urgent diplomacy and humanitarian aid — and Russia’s own antiwar movement — could stop the suffering

President Biden was right to withdraw US troops. But we should have no illusion that this will end the war for Afghans

It’s beautiful that there’s an Olympic team for 82 million displaced people. But have we accepted mass displacement as the new normal?

The human and economic costs of Donald Rumsfeld’s wars are staggering

Some in Washington may be so glad to be rid of Netanyahu that they’ll welcome his even more hardline successor

After two decades of skyrocketing military budgets and a failed “war on terror” undermining human lives and rights, transformations are desperately needed

The new government — if it takes power at all — is united only around ousting Netanyahu. Here’s what that could mean

The Biden administration thought it could muddle through with the usual pro-Israel platitudes, but rising awareness of Israeli apartheid is making that impossible

Netanyahu’s political troubles — and an arms industry eager to battle test new wares on Gazans — may help explain the latest escalation of violence

Human Rights Watch issuing an unsparing, 200-plus page legal and factual report concluding that Israeli government authorities are guilty of the crime of apartheid, is a very big deal