Donald Trump’s pretrial screeds against Alvin Bragg were filled with coded language that makes clear that this trial isn't just about the question of the former president's culpability. Trump, who’s accused Manhattan’s first Black district attorney of being “racist” against him, has called Bragg “lazy” and repeated false claims that he has refused to prosecute violent crime. Both of these insults — alleged laziness and indifference to violence — have commonly been deployed by racists throughout...
As the writer of ‘The Satanic Verses’ prepares to publish ‘Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder’, Katie Rosseinsky looks at his life and career – and his 25 years of living under a religious death threat
The multilateral defense of Israel against Iran’s drone and missile attacks, which included not just U.S. but also European and Arab participation, reminds us that the leading bilateral conflicts of our day play out on a broader geopolitical landscape. It is a lesson Washington should apply to multiple other fronts.
Orlando Whitfield was a student when he became best friends with Inigo Philbrick, ‘the art world’s Bernie Madoff’. He talks about how their decade of hustling would lead one to a breakdown – and the other to jail• ‘The day we tried to bag a Banksy’: read an extract from Whitfield’s explosive exposéOrlando Whitfield is a youngish man, shy, with a reddish beard. His hands are aggressively tattooed, as if they’d been laid, backs down, on wet newspaper. The ink is a form of armour, he says, like his...
The following piece by Harold Meyerson appeared in The American Prospect. For left-of-center policy wonks, this is shaping up as a banner week. Here in Washington, the journal Democracy is holding a “Middle-Out Economics” conference, featuring a host of progressive economists, Biden administration appointees, union think-tankers, and political consultants who grapple with the conundrum of how to… Source
Former Director of the Central Intelligence Agency David Petraeus talks to CNN’s Jake Tapper on State of the Union about the significance Iran’s attack on Israel will have in the region.
“The ball is now in Israel's court.”
Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control targeted 16 people and two entities in Iran that produce engines that power the drones used in the April 13 attack on Israel.
The Middle East has, for some time, been a powder keg where degrees of violence are tolerated with ceremonial mania and a calculus of restraint. Assassinations can take place at a moment’s notice. Revenge killings follow with dashing speed. Suicide bombings of immolating power are carried out. Drone strikes of devastating, collective punishment are ordered, all padded by the More
After a full day of intense discussion, Israel’s war cabinet has yet to reach a decision on how and when to respond to Iran’s missile and drone attack. Ministers suspended their discussions Sunday evening without a conclusion, but are expected to reconvene soon. According to Hebrew media reports, War Cabinet Minister Benny Gantz and his […]
Though at a technological disadvantage, Iran’s military is thought to have a significant stockpile of missiles and cheap drones.
Comedian Vera Drew’s debut film is radical, moving, and definitely not affiliated with the DCEU or Warner Bros. in any official capacity.