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What’s the Quickest Path to World War III?

In “The Return of Great Powers” and “Up in Arms,” Jim Sciutto and Adam E. Casey consider modern-day superpower conflict…

World

Strike in Damascus Is an Escalation in Israel’s Undeclared War With Iran

Israel’s bombing of an Iranian Embassy building in Damascus, which killed senior Iranian military and intelligence officials, is a major…

Travel

Trump’s Call for Israel to ‘Finish Up’ War Alarms Some on the Right

Recent remarks he made urging an end to the Gaza conflict, with no insistence on freeing Israeli hostages first, were…

World

Dispute Over Conscription for Ultra-Orthodox Jews Presents New Threat to Netanyahu

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s cabinet is divided about whether ultra-Orthodox Jews should be required to join the Israeli army.

World

What Would You Have Israel Do to Defend Itself?

There seems to be a broad consensus atop the Democratic Party about the war in Gaza, structured around two propositions.…

Arts

Let’s Say Someone Did Drop the Bomb. Then What?

NUCLEAR WAR: A Scenario, by Annie Jacobsen COUNTDOWN: The Blinding Future of Nuclear Weapons, by Sarah Scoles When it comes…

Arts

Sparks Fly in Spicy New Romances

Romantasy loves to gild its protagonists with royal lineage and awe-inspiring powers, but sometimes we find books that take the…

World

Blinken Meets With Netanyahu as U.S.-Israel Tensions Rise

The Biden administration accelerated efforts to halt the Gaza war on Friday as Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken met…

World

When African Women Are Raped, Where Is the Outrage?

In the summer of 2023, while I was negotiating the price of a pair of cloud-shaped wire sunglasses, a man…

World

How Do You Solve a Problem Like North Korea?

How do you solve a problem like North Korea? Since the end of the Cold War, it seems that every…

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