by Nicholas Goldberg Five Israelis shot dead in Bnai Brak and two more in Tel Aviv. Clashes at the Al Aqsa Mosque, where more than 150 Palestinians […]
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Middle Eastern twist adds some depth to this classic dessert
BY CHRISTOPHER KIMBALL This pudding may seem like comfort food, but it features a sophisticated twist from the Middle East. Cooks there frequently pair sweet ingredients with […]
Trump not responsible for Iran’s behavior
by Bobby Ghosh As the nuclear negotiations between the world powers and Iran approach a denouement, the Biden administration is turning up the heat on … Donald […]
Guest essay: U.S.-Israel alliance makes the world a safer place
by Stuart V. Pavilack The Dominion Post published a guest essay Aug. 22 entitled “Teaching about Sept. 11 in America.” It had less to do with teaching […]
Sept. 11, 2001-21: 20 years of grief
The average college student has no true memory of Sept. 11, 2001. Neither do current high school, middle school or elementary school students. They were too young […]
Immense scale of Bush’s policy screw-up
by Chris Reed In 1983, Harvard-educated psychiatrist turned Carter administration bureaucrat turned conservative pundit Charles Krauthammer wrote a remarkably prescient column for Time magazine about “the mirror-image […]
President Biden should just admit: ‘We blew it’
by John M. Crisp Joe Biden was probably always going to be a one-term president. His age was a political liability when he defeated Donald Trump in […]
This is Biden’s Kobayashi Maru
Kobayashi Maru. It’s a term familiar to Star Trek fans: a no-win scenario — a Starfleet test where cadets must choose between saving a disabled civilian vessel, […]
No accountability 1 year after Beirut blast
by Hussein Ibish It’s been one year since the devastating Beirut port explosion, perhaps the worst non-nuclear blast in a heavily populated area in human history. A […]
There’s a reason Biden won’t talk about Afghanistan
by Doyle McManus A couple weeks ago, when reporters asked President Joe Biden whether he worried that Afghanistan’s government might collapse in the face of Taliban military […]