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Horrible and Devastating—And Worse, Not Shocking

December 15, 2025

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My Murdered Friend Eli

Zalman Rothschild

December 15, 2025

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The Intifada Comes to Bondi Beach

December 14, 2025

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The Extraordinary Logic of Netanyahu’s Bid for a Pardon

Gershom Gorenberg

December 3, 2025

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Netanyahu Just Admitted He’s Unfit to Lead Israel

December 2, 2025

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People Are Underestimating America’s Groyper Problem

November 25, 2025

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Elon Musk’s Worthless, Poisoned Hall of Mirrors

November 24, 2025

What Reconstructing Gaza Really Means

Samer Sinijlawi

November 13, 2025

A Palestinian mother walks with two children beside rubble in Gaza.

National Security

The Trump Administration Has a New Plan for Gaza

November 10, 2025

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Blaming Foreigners for American Failings Won’t Fix Them

November 9, 2025

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The Battle Iranian Women Are Winning

November 7, 2025

Two young Iranian women walk together along a shore of the Chitgar Lake in the recreational Chitgar complex in northwestern Tehran, Iran, on September 11, 2025.

Yitzhak Rabin Knew What Netanyahu Doesn’t

November 4, 2025

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War Is Coming Back to Gaza

Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib

November 4, 2025

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J. D. Vance’s Bad Answer to an Anti-Semitic Question

October 31, 2025

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Israel’s Critics Have Canceled Themselves

October 31, 2025

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Trump Needs the UN in Gaza

October 27, 2025

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Why J. D. Vance Just Called an Israeli Parliament Vote ‘Stupid’ and an ‘Insult’

October 24, 2025

J.D. Vance sits in front of an American flag with small American and Israeli flags in front of him.

Can Trump Contain Israel’s Hard Right?

October 21, 2025

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A Cease-Fire Is a Moment to Count the Dead

Ghada Abdulfattah

October 21, 2025

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The Depth of MAGA’s Moral Collapse

October 17, 2025

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Why Is Trump Making Excuses for Hamas?

October 15, 2025

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One Era Ends in Gaza, and Another Begins

October 13, 2025

Donald Trump in Israel's Knesset

Washington Week With The Atlantic

The Turning Point for Israel and Hamas

October 11, 2025

Panelists on Washington Week With The Atlantic

The Cruel Calculus of Palestinian Grief

October 11, 2025

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National Security

How Trump Pushed Israel and Hamas to Yes

Isaac Stanley-Becker and Vivian Salama

October 10, 2025

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Atlantic Trivia on Wine, Tribunals, the Revolutionary War, and More

October 10, 2025

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Trump’s Great Achievement

October 10, 2025

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What’s Going On With Marjorie Taylor Greene?

October 9, 2025

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The Moral Foundation of America

November 2025 Issue

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Trump’s Plan to Finally End the Gaza War

October 9, 2025

Anti-Semitism Is Poison for the Palestinian Cause

October 7, 2025

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Trump Is Successfully Bullying Netanyahu

October 5, 2025

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The Reason Not to Boycott Israeli Films

Gershom Gorenberg

October 3, 2025

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Hamas’s Worst Option, Except for All the Others

October 1, 2025

A street scene in Gaza shows billowing black smoke, a UN banner and people walking amid tents.

What’s Missing From Trump’s Gaza Peace Plan

September 30, 2025

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The Real Reason to Recognize Palestine

September 30, 2025

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