Month: April 2022

The Israel-Hamas ceasefire stopped the fighting — but changed nothing

The ceasefire announced Thursday between Israel and Hamas will hopefully end the worst of the violence that in the course

Journalists can tweet about Black Lives Matter but not about Palestine

Last week, no one had heard of Emily Wilder. Then she became the focus of a national campaign to get

In defense of the two-state solution

Last week, Israel and Hamas agreed to a ceasefire in a conflict that claimed nearly 250 lives. But the underlying

The progressive foreign policy moment has arrived

As the Israel-Gaza war raged, President Joe Biden made clear to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that there was a

Why Biden’s team didn’t go all-in on Israel-Gaza

Secretary of State Antony Blinken had a choice to make. It was mid-May, and in a few days he’d travel

What we owe to future generations

In 2015, 20 residents of Yahaba, a small town in northeastern Japan, went to their town hall to take part

How Taiwan held off Covid-19, until it didn’t

In December 2019, Taiwan‘s government learned that at least seven atypical pneumonia cases had been reported in Wuhan, China. Because

The US is bracing for a potential Haitian migrant crisis. Biden needs to step up.

Thousands of Haitians have been displaced amid escalating gang violence in the aftermath of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse’s assassination on

How climate change fueled the devastating floods in Germany and northwest Europe

After historic rainfall caused devastating flooding that killed more than 100 people in northwestern Europe and left more than 1,000

We have to accelerate clean energy innovation to curb the climate crisis. Here’s how.

“Innovation” is a fraught concept in climate politics. For years, it was used as a kind of fig leaf to