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Are you looking for a tree? If you aren’t yet, it’s highly advisable that you begin your search now, before it’s too late. After all, the flowers of the fruit…
The strong pushback against General Khalifa Hifter’s bid to take the Libyan capital, Tripoli, endangers one of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s risky bets. But even if Hifter loses, Putin will…
The latest demand from Democrats to investigate President Donald Trump has come from chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee Rep. Richard Neal, who wants the Internal Revenue Service…
During the mid-1980s, I lived in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, as a U.S. foreign service officer. One way or another, I have been engaged with the border and Mexico ever since.…
“I suspect that the wise men and women up in Albany who thought of this brilliant idea don’t get to the supermarket that much,” read a letter published in this…
House Democrats are pushing the Raise the Wage Act, which would increase the federal minimum wage from $7.25 to $15 an hour by 2024. The bill promises to reignite the…
“This month shall be for you the beginnings of the months, it shall be for you the first of the months of the year …” A king might test the…
Turkey’s elections on Sunday were a political earthquake for President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his Islamist coalition. His party lost control of Ankara and Istanbul, where Erdogan was mayor from…
The Canadian province of Quebec is poised for a breakthrough in militant secularism and xenophobia with Bill 21, which would ban certain public-sector employees from wearing yarmulkes, hijabs, and other…
Words matter. Just ask New York City Councilman Kalman Yeger. Within a few short days of tweeting the factually correct words “Palestine does not exist,” he was booted from the…
Anti-Semites who don’t want to be identified as such often claim to be anti-Israel. Or pro-peace. Or pro-Palestinian. They don’t hate Jews, they argue, they hate injustice. Their hearts bleed…
Across an ocean but hot on the heels of Congresswoman Ilhan Omar’s not-so-subtle invoking of the hoary stereotype of Jews’ wily wielding of wealth — “It’s all about the Benjamins,”…
A quick riffle through Israel state archives shows that election posters and propaganda have been a fixture on our streets starting from the very first election in 1948. Four years…
Do you ever wonder about the donkey and elephant? Yes, the color lineup has also puzzled me in the past, especially since before the 1980’s the colors were reversed! But…
A recent article in The New York Times suggested that in an increasingly divided British society, one of the few things holding people together was their “loss of hope in…
When even leading economists are questioning the very idea of capitalism, you know the system is in trouble. In a recent article, Nobel economics winner Angus Deaton reviewed two books…
The health-care market received a jolt from the Justice Department when it declared that it will seek a wholesale scrapping of the Affordable Care Act (ACA, or Obamacare) following a…
Ever since Jair Bolsonaro won the Brazilian presidency, speculation has swirled around what makes the choleric retired army captain run. No longer: It’s mothballs. This week, Bolsonaro instructed the nation’s…
Last Thursday, the U.S. Supreme Court refused to block a Trump administration initiative banning bump stocks, the semiautomatic rifle attachments that enable the weapons to fire in long, sustained bursts…
Friday’s exchange of letters between Attorney General William Barr and House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y., augurs a contentious court battle over Congress’ access to grand jury material incorporated…