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I believe there is a moral case for disarming the machinery of war that is killing innocent civilians in Gaza with ...

Austerity is a choice. The protection of the family at the expense of other ways of living is a choice. The transfer ...

Humanitarian aid has long served as cover for Israeli crimes. Under the Geneva Conventions, an occupying force ...

He is an efficient man, with some previous experience of the production line … Walther Rauff is the inventor of the Gas Truck ...

The crux of Daniel Kehlmann’s Director is whether it’s weakness or necessity that makes G.W. Pabst compromise.

There’s a pleasing Cheshire usage that Garner uses throughout his books, plunder to mean ‘ponder’, and as far as he’s ...

Lynn, DeLynn’s narrator/alter ego, looks back from adulthood at her final year of school. She knows there is something wrong ...

Close to the end of Bruce Chatwin’s celebrated, cryptic, not completely reliable book In Patagonia, published in 1977, there is a short passage about a resident of what was then the remotest city in ...

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Robert Malley is a senior fellow at the Yale Jackson School. He was a lead negotiator for the United States on the Iran nuclear deal in 2015 and President Biden’s special envoy to Iran.