[aggregation-styles] Haaretz That's how it goes when you're having fun. Time flies. Eight years ago, in 2012, the United Nations issued a report entitled "Gaza in 2020: A livable place?" The answer was contained in the body of the report - no. Not unless steps are taken to save it....

[aggregation-styles] San Francisco Chronicle California has a housing crisis — that much we all know — but we should not grow paralyzed by the idea that it’s politically or substantively insurmountable. Paris has turned around a comparable situation with remarkable speed. Though the French capital and its suburbs house less...

[aggregation-styles] The Intercept Listen to more from the Deconstructed podcast with Mehdi Hasan. It's been described as the worst human rights crisis in the world — the arbitrary detention in sprawling camps of a million or more Uighur Muslims in China’s northwestern Xinjiang province. The Chinese government has claimed that...

[aggregation-styles] Maven's Notebook Water rights, depending on jurisdiction, possess various levels of seeming indemnity and security, typically demonstrated through some standard of legally established priority. Water entitlements have been long-standing icons of local and regional industrial, economic, and political power. Over time, as water demands grew, but available supplies dwindled,...

[aggregation-styles] America Magazine He said, ‘I am but a messenger from your Lord, [come] to announce to you the gift of a pure son.’ She said, ‘How can I have a son when no man has touched me? I have not been unchaste.’ —Qur’an, Sura 19:19-20 It might surprise some...

[aggregation-styles] Thought Economics “I am one of the early birds…” Ece Temelkuran told me, “I saw democracy collapse in Turkey and tried to warn the United States, European Countries and Britain about this.  I’ve been telling people that what you think is normal, or a passing phase, is part of a bigger...

[aggregation-styles] The Intercept The movie "Love Actually" has some good advice: At Christmas, you tell the truth. It’s the perfect day to be honest about what you’ve done in the past year, what that says about who you are, and what it means about where you’re heading. So, let’s tell the truth...

[aggregation-styles] Los Angeles Times Subscription There are the big, juicy political developments, of the sort that require double-sized headlines on front pages and, eventually, their own chapters in history books. And there are the quiet, incremental ones. But both matter. Last week, the world watched as articles of impeachment against...

[aggregation-styles] Haaretz Using all its tools of propaganda and tactics of intimidation, Narendra Modi government is broadcasting the message that all is well in India. It isn’t. The truth is that India, as a nation, is going through a great turmoil - economically, politically and socially. As the author and activist...