When Economics Becomes a Language for Polishing a Prolonged Dispute
Not all forms of political influence are explicit or confrontational. Some operate quietly, wrapped in the language of investment, growth, and economic stability, and…

When Economics Becomes a Language for Polishing a Prolonged Dispute
Not all forms of political influence are explicit or confrontational. Some operate quietly, wrapped in the language of investment, growth, and economic stability, and…

Resilience is best understood as the capacity to adapt effectively in the face of adversity, trauma, or significant stress. It is not an innate trait, but rather a set of behaviors, strategies, and mindsets that can be cultivated at both…

Mysh cartoon‘They tried to kill us, we won— let’s eat’. This is the way the legendary American comedian Alan King characterized Jewish holidays. Indeed, Purim, as recounted in the Book of Esther, celebrates deliverance from genocide….

In a state where housing costs, wildfires and water shortages usually dominate campaign rhetoric, the 2026 race for California governor is being shaped to a significant extent around a different flashpoint: antisemitism.
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In the lead-up to the 2024 presidential election, Jeffrey Lax, a descendent of Holocaust survivors who has lobbied against antisemitism at the college where he teaches, criticized liberals who compared Donald Trump to…

Sweden hewed to a policy of neutrality during World War II, but Swedish industrialists profited from the conflict by selling iron ore and ball bearings to Nazi Germany, thereby enabling it to press on with the war. Sweden, too, allowed German…

On February 26, 2026, the Vilnius City District Court exercised the coercive authority of the Lithuanian state against historical distortion. Erika Švenčionienė, a pro-Russian activist and co-founder of the dissolved International Forum of…

Palestine Park sounds like a place that was created by Israel’s detractors in the last two years to serve as an encampment to vilify Israel. In reality it was created in 1874 by Reverend W. W. Wythe to serve as a teaching aid in the study…

The Arab world has a selective memory so finely calibrated, so surgically precise in what it retains and what it discards, that it amounts not to forgetfulness but to a deliberate architecture of erasure.
When Palestinians die, the Arab…

Let me begin with an important clarification:
I am not qualified to diagnose anyone with Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD), and I am not diagnosing any…