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What Bad Bunny shows us about shrinking to fit.

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Sunday, I watched a man stand up and say “My name is Benito Antonio Martinez Ocasio, and if I’m here today, it’s because I never — never — stopped believing in…

Israeli politics increasingly feels like a permanent emergency drill — not only because of rockets, hostages, or borders, but because our public arguments are built around a darker assumption: if the other side wins, Israel as we know it…

Netanyahu wants right wing voters to reject Bennett over Yair Golan’s inflammatory rhetoric. But Golan cannot translate his extreme views into policy, while Netanyahu’s Hareidi coalition partners, UTJ and Shas, both express open contempt…

1. Introduction: The “Somaliland 2.0” Imperative

The international system is undergoing structural recalibration driven by non-traditional sovereign actors challenging Westphalian norms. Central is the Republic of Somaliland, which, after…

This year I am working two days a week in the elementary school, helping to teach English to the fifth and sixth grades and Hebrew to the second grade. I also work two days a week in the junior high school, helping with English in the…

Parashat Mishpatim is dense, an intricate weave of civil laws: torts, damages, guardianship, personal injury, property, and responsibility. Case after case unfolds in careful detail. It does not read like poetry. It does not soar. It arrives…

Since October 7, a quiet arithmetic has begun to haunt the Israeli imagination: not the familiar tally of dead and wounded, not the daily count of rockets, sirens, minutes in shelters, but the more discreet sum of departures. The suitcases…

Arrested in a Democracy

Thirteen years ago today, I was arrested at the Western Wall. I was 17 years old, standing next to my mom and the women of Women of the Wall. Our “crime”? Wearing a tallit, a Jewish prayer shawl, as women in the…

Congress, Disinformation, and the Cost to U.S. Strategy in Western Sahara

A Reading of the Western Sahara File

Recent efforts by a limited number of voices within the U.S. Congress to reframe the Western Sahara issue through a narrow security…

Or the Ideal Mediator. The Facts: The End of the Myth of Non-Alignment in the Middle East

Oman, the Only Ibadi State, Confronted with a Coercive Regional Order

For a long time, non-alignment was presented as a viable strategic option in the…