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Iran’s Unbroken 1979 Chain

The Islamic Republic is responsible for Iran’s ruin. That is not in dispute. What demands scrutiny is why—after decades of rebellion, mass sacrifice, exile, and national trauma—Iran still lacks a credible,…

This week, as New York City inaugurated its first Muslim mayor, two cities in the United States also made history with the swearing-in of their first Orthodox Jewish mayors.

While Orthodox mayors have been elected in…

Somalia’s Government and the Extremist Mirror: Turning Somaliland’s Political Rights into Religious Conflict

The Federal Government of Somalia has increasingly relied on religious platforms to delegitimize Somaliland’s political…

The revival of Hebrew in the late 19th and early 20th centuries is often flattened into a tidy legend centered on Eliezer Ben-Yehuda. Still, the historical record tells a far more complex and global story—one of diasporic convergence rather…

History has already delivered its verdict: large, coerced multi-ethnic states inevitably fail, while smaller sovereign nations endure and prosper. Yugoslavia’s collapse stemmed from centralized power that suppressed national self-rule,…

Fear and Playing Politics (Which You Really Don’t Understand Is Bringing The Next Holocaust & End Of Democracy As We Know It) Is A Losing Strategy

On Christmas Eve, award-winning artist Scott LoBaido made a reel for social media about those…

For all the attention devoted to human evolution, we still don’t know who our direct ancestors were, let alone our distant ones. But now Sahelanthropus tchadensis, a primate that lived about 7 million years ago in North Africa, and looked like an…

The warehouse smelled of frying oil and freshly baked challah. It was a bitterly cold Friday morning, and I was standing shoulder-to-shoulder with strangers, forming a human assembly line to pack schnitzel sandwiches for soldiers in Gaza.

I…

Why praising Jewish death exposes a deeper view of humanity

In the first part, sanctity was described as a public ethic that binds the state of Israel to protect Jewish life and to honor Jewish death. Against this stands a practice that also…

Palestine Is Israel. Palestinians Are Israelis. And the Name Was Stolen.

Words matter. Especially stolen ones.

For most of modern history, Palestinian was not a revolutionary banner or an ethnic badge. It was a plain civic name for the people…