Netanyahu won reelection by vowing to annex the settlements. If Trump lets him, the Zionist dream is dead.
Eric Cortellessa
Eric Cortellessa, a Washington Monthly contributing editor, is a staff writer for Time magazine.
Posted inApril/May/June 2019
Meet the New Trustbusters
These 2020 Democratic contenders want to take on modern monopolies. Will voters get behind them?
Posted inPolitics
The Netanyahu Catastrophe
He sees himself as Israel’s ultimate defender. In reality, he poses one of its greatest existential threats.
Posted inPolitical Animal
The Lessons of Ilhan Omar
Critics of the Israel lobby’s influence must be extra careful not to provide fodder for bad-faith Republican outrage.
Posted inPolitical Animal
The Celebrity Journalists Even a Populist Could Love
A new documentary about Jimmy Breslin and Pete Hamill has insights for today’s press corps.
Posted inJanuary/February/March 2019
The Democrats’ Pop-Up Foreign Policy Problem
Conservatives have created a permanent infrastructure of think tanks to generate foreign policy positions regardless of who’s in the White House. Liberals need to do the same.
Posted inPolitical Animal
Vice Precedent
Adam McKay’s biopic blames Dick Cheney for the nihilism of the modern Republican Party.
Posted inPolitics
For Trump Supporters, How Corrupt Is Too Corrupt?
Chris Collins’s reelection bid will test the depths of partisan loyalty in 2018.
Posted inNovember/December 2018
Has This Woman Figured Out How to Cure Blindness?
A leading D.C. finance expert has an idea that could bring eyesight to millions—including herself.
Posted inPolitics
Trump Finally Endorses a Two-State Solution. It’s Too Little, Too Late.
The president wants to get Palestinians back to the negotiating table, but offering them rhetorical support for a state won’t earn back their trust.
