[aggregation-styles] The Washington Post How Israel Helped Create Hamas All signs indicate that the government of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is prepared to wage a protracted battle in the battered Gaza Strip as it seeks to crush the capabilities of the Islamist militant group Hamas. The ongoing conflict has...

[aggregation-styles] Forward AIPAC Is Playing The Victim, But It’s Palestinians Who Are Being Silenced So far, the theme of AIPAC’s 2019 Policy Conference has been peril, not just to Israel, but to AIPAC itself. AIPAC’s CEO accused unnamed critics of “trying to silence each of us.” AIPAC President Mort Fridman...

[aggregation-styles] Business Insider A Brand-New US Citizen Walks Us Through the 'Hell' It Takes to Go From Foreigner to American Jon Yildiz will never forget the moment during his citizenship ceremony when President Donald Trump appeared on the screen at the front of the room. In the same aggressive tone...

[aggregation-styles] Indy 100 5 Ways World Leaders Can Learn From New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern New Zealand PM Jacinda Ardern is being praised for her decisive and strong stance against white supremacy in the wake of a shooting at two mosques that killed 50 people. Ardern’s reaction to the...

[aggregation-styles] Bloomberg Opinion Turkey Is Changing the Middle East. The U.S. Doesn’t Get It. The Middle East is changing fast but the U.S. seems to be the last government to realize it and respond. For at least 10 years, the region has been caricatured as divided into two camps: a...

[aggregation-styles] The Washington Post When Does Criticism of Israel Cross Into Anti-Semitism? Several incoming Democrats were elected due to their support for ideas popular with the Democratic Party’s more progressive base — including increased criticism of Israel. Some liberals believe that the treatment of those residing within the West Bank...

[aggregation-styles] The New York Times Our Culture of Contempt I live and work in Washington. But I’m not a politics junkie. To me, politics is like the weather — it changes a lot, people drone on about it constantly, and “good” is mostly subjective. I like winter, you like summer;...

[aggregation-styles] The Wall Street Journal The Trouble With Taxing Wealth Around the world, governments in recent decades have sought to lighten the burden on capital by reducing taxes on dividends, capital gains, corporate profits and wealth. The motivation is straightforward: more capital means more investment, higher productivity and faster growing...

[aggregation-styles] CityLab 6 Rules for Better, More Inclusive Economic Development in Cities Until recently, there was a growing understanding among city-builders and economic developers that handing over taxpayer-funded incentives to large corporations is wasteful and ineffective. That is, until Amazon’s HQ2 search threw a wrench in that, bringing real pressure...

[aggregation-styles] CityLab The Real Powerhouses That Drive the World’s Economy When world leaders, economists, and pundits talk about global economic power, they usually talk about nation-states. That’s how we typically tally up economic power, rating and ranking nations on their gross domestic product. Today, economists and business analysts talk about...