World Politics Archive
Archives for December 2023


One year into Netanyahu’s latest tenure, Israel’s state and society are truly weakened.


How to understand Hamas’s alleged sexual attacks on October 7.


US law limits aid to countries that violate human rights. Here’s why it isn’t applied to Israel.


To understand the anarcho-capitalist leader, you have to understand Argentina’s past.


Should Congress fail to extend aid to Ukraine, it would “change the character of the war.”


The White House is reportedly open to making concessions to Republicans in its negotiations over aid to Ukraine and Israel that go far beyond border security.


A simple question about genocide at a congressional hearing obscured a complicated debate about antisemitism and free speech.


Why the US and Israel are becoming “increasingly isolated.”


Starbucks’s messy December, explained.
Inside Israel’s dual criminal justice system.


The Israel-Hamas war changed the way we engage online, maybe forever.


Two decades after 9/11, extremist groups continue to pull off surprise attacks. Why?

For many Jews, the October 7 attacks discredited both the Zionist right and the anti-Zionist left — paving the way for the resurrection of a seemingly dead political tradition.


The party is fractured over President Joe Biden’s unequivocal support for Israel as the war in Gaza continues ahead of 2024.


With dozens of reporters dead in Gaza and others harassed and censored inside Israel, experts are deeply concerned about press freedom in “the Middle East’s only democracy.”