The author of a searing book on the fraught relationship between Lee Harvey Oswald and his mother reflects on the recent landmark conviction of a Michigan mom for her role in her son’s school shooting.
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If You’re Going to Send the President a Protest Letter, Sign Your Name
Posting a protest letter on social media platforms with anonymous signatories is not just cowardly but the emptiest of empty gestures.
Posted inTrump Coup Trial
Trump’s Immunity Defense: The President is a Murderer? No Problem!
A veteran journalist and historian along with an esteemed lawyer and scholar, both Washington Monthly contributors, go inside the Trump Coup Trial.
Posted inWar in the Mideast
She Asked For It: Hamas, Weaponized Rape, and Reversing Years of Progress For Victims of Sexual Violence
Rape deniers are now demanding on-camera, first-person survivor accounts from Israeli victims of Hamas’s sexual violence ignoring the brutal fact that maost of the victims were murdered or remain in captivity.
Posted inWar in the Mideast
Israel and the Politics of Paroxysm
“For some time now,” wrote the author in 2015, “it has been Israeli leaders who’ve never missed an opportunity to miss an opportunity.”
Posted inWar in the Mideast
Massive Evidence Collection in Hamas Rapes Could Be a Turning Point
Mobile phone videos, metadata, eyewitnesses, security cams—all that evidence may be a historic first in the prosecution of rape as a weapon of war.
Posted inEconomy
Why Biden’s Good Economic News Hasn’t Helped Him Politically—So Far
The economy is on an excellent track right now—incredibly low unemployment, declining inflation, and stunning productivity growth—but the president is still coping with income growth.
Posted inWar in the Mideast
After Hamas Sexual Violence, “A Room of Women Taking Care of Other Women”
In New York City, I listen as an Israeli officer recalls the care and concern, the rituals and rites, for the women sexually assaulted and slaughtered by Hamas on October 7.
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“Qatar Has Been the Conduit for Countries to Talk to People They Can’t Talk to Openly”
Patrick Theros, the former American ambassador to the wealthy Persian Gulf nation, explains how it juggles its ties to Hamas, Iran, Israel, and the U.S.
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This Thanksgiving, Understand Our Country Through “Hidden Tribes” and “American Nations”
Join a scholar as he goes beyond simple demographics, to examine “values-based” voting blocs and how they are not so evenly distributed across America’s rival regional cultures.
