Three weeks ago, my beloved San Francisco 49ers were unceremoniously dispatched from the NFL playoffs by the Seattle Seahawks, who are vying for their second Super Bowl championship today. The result didn’t surprise many; the Niners were hobbled by injuries to many of their best players and, frankly, enjoyed more than a bit of luck
In the 1970s, after the Six-Day War had time to sink in, an impressive number of Western academics, journalists, politicians, diplomats, spooks, and especially oil executives gave Israel a centripetal eminence in the Middle East that neither its population, geography, faith, wealth, nor even military accomplishments merited. Thirteen hundred years of Islamic history over 3.8
In recent years, there has been growing concern that the United States and China might find themselves in a war over Taiwan. Such worries overlook an important fact: Washington and Beijing are already at war. But as David Shedd and Andrew Badger document in their new book, The Great Heist: China’s Epic Campaign to Steal
Diana Buttu, who teaches courses on negotiation skills and female leadership, has praised Hamas in the past Diana Buttu (Al Jazeera English/YouTube) A Harvard lecturer who writes a column for Zeteo, the anti-Israel blog of former MSNBC host Mehdi Hasan, is slated to speak at a conference in Qatar next month with a top Hamas
James Fishback claimed his DC condo as a primary residence through 2025 and voted there in 2020, records show. Florida’s constitution requires gubernatorial candidates to have lived in the state for seven consecutive years. James Fishback, the 31-year-old alleged groomer and head of a troubled asset management firm who is running an insurgent campaign to
The president’s announcement comes as the United States moves military assets to the Middle East in preparation for a potential strike against Iran DAVOS, SWITZERLAND – JANUARY 21: U.S. President Donald Trump (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) DAVOS, Switzerland—President Donald Trump said in Davos that the United States will add 25 new B-2 bombers to
Illinois congressional candidate and former Media Matters for America staffer Kat Abughazaleh skipped a campaign event because she slept through it, citing her struggles with “sleep attacks.” “I have a chronic illness called narcolepsy. It makes me extremely tired and occasionally causes ‘sleep attacks,’ times when my brain literally cannot stay awake,” Abughazaleh, who’s running