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Panicked, Donald Trump has threatened to destroy Iran’s energy infrastructure by 8 p.m. today unless concessions are made. But Iran’s position is stronger than the president is willing to admit.

Operation Epic Fury is only the most severe example of President Donald Trump’s poor decision-making, which is likely to produce one mega-disaster after another.

Coverage losses and reduced funding coincide with a surge in uninsured patients seeking care.

A new book by Molly Crabapple documents the rise and fall of a revolutionary Jewish party that fought against Zionism and for ‘solidarity.

Annemarie Jacir’s Palestine 36 resurrects the mass anti‑colonial revolt that Britain crushed with overwhelming force — and shows how its legacy still shapes the present.

The age of unreason

Slavery by Another Name (1911), Who Wrecked the Trains? (1961), It Isn’t Easy to Get the Goods on Corporate Crime (1976), ‘Too Horrifying to Broadcast’ (1966), A Great and Good Man, but No Saint (1876)

The law of war prohibits “acts or threats of violence the primary purpose of which is to spread terror among the civilian population.” It is difficult to read Trump’s egregious threats of destruction as anything but intending to spread terror.

An upstate New York industrial development agency is offering tax breaks worth $801 million - with more subsidies likely on the way - to create just 125 jobs at a business park, an example of corporate giveaways around the country.

Growers first discovered and cultivated this breed in 1870. Arkansas established an economy around apple production, and during the 1920s, 15 to 20 percent of the state’s yield was its namesake black variety.